Having recently validated assumptions about floor-system capacities in its timber-and-concrete structural model for a 42-story residential building, architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is planning additional load tests, followed by fire tests, to nail down the viability of mass-timber-and-concrete high-rises.
User-friendlier language, provisions on alkali-silica reactivity and the absence of default requirements for slump are three of the changes in the latest update of ACI 301-16 Specifications for Structural Concrete, according to the American Concrete Institute.
Looking to realign its presence in Europe following the U.K.’s Brexit vote on June 23, India-based steel producer Tata Steel is in talks with German-based ThyssenKrupp AG and the British government about a possible joint venture for the European market.
The world’s number two cement maker is making steady strides in closing a €3.7 billion deal in a consolidating building materials market. It’s also doing some interesting tinkering in the Caucasus and West Bank.
HeidelbergCement is turning its eyes to Washington in anticipation of an antitrust ruling, perhaps in as soon as two weeks, which is the German-based building materials giant’s next big hurdle in its ongoing effort to acquire Italcementi.
Interested parties have until May 16 to comment on the final draft of the 2016 Code of Standard Practice for Structural Steel Buildings and Bridges, which the American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. plans to release this fall.
Using powerful nanotechnology tools, a research team led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has successfully modeled the complex structure of calcium silica hydrate (CSH), the main binding material in cement and concrete.
Paint manufacturing giant Sherwin-
Williams Co. on March 20 announced that it will acquire rival The Valspar Corp. in an all-cash transaction worth roughly $9 billion.