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Mass timber provides options amid steel tariffs: Timberlab CEO

Construction Dive

That led company leaders, in 2021, to work toward helping the firm become more vertically integrated, with its own fabrication facilities and domestic supply, and a sawmill coming online in 2027. CONSTRUCTION DIVE: How are steel tariffs impacting mass timber? Is there more demand for timber as a steel alternative?

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Infrastructure costs keep rising. Consider these approaches to mitigate them.

Civil + Structural Engineer

Risk-Based Cost and Schedule Estimating and Value Engineering The cost of materials such as concrete and steel have surged, driven by post-pandemic supply chain realignments and global instability. This build anywhere approach reduces site-based manufacturing by tapping offsite fabrication options. This is no longer just a theory.

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Registration is now open for the Autodesk MEP & Structural Fabricators Forum

BIM & Beam

Do you spend your time detailing or fabricating structural steel or rebar? Registration is now open for the second annual Autodesk MEP & Structural Fabricators Forum! Our lecture style sessions focus on how technology can benefit your business, how to ramp up with new technology, and how to implement new business processes.

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Outlining the advantages of fabric duct systems

Construction Specifier

One issue is the meteoric rise of steel prices, which has caused significant construction industry challenges. Steel price escalation has skyrocketed with no end in sight. Likewise, steel HVAC ductwork has seen even higher price rises. The New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE’s) American Steel Index XX:Steel was 539.41

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Local Connection Key to Realizing Robust Housing

ENR Construction

million lb of reinforcing steel. “In Many of our strategies during the design development leaned on self-performed construction scope, offsite fabrication and, where available, utilization of local suppliers,” he says. For them to source the cement and the materials and the rock and the aggregate, they had to ramp up.

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Yellowstone River Bridge Sits Tall at Top of Canyon to Improve Safety, Access and Views

ENR Construction

Rising 180 ft above the river gorge, the four-span steel plate girder bridge will replace the existing structure, which was built in 1961 and is located just 700 ft to the southeast. The 65 steel girders, some up to 15 ft tall and 100 ft long, were fabricated by Utah Pacific in Lindon, Utah. Photo courtesy NPS/Jacob W.

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Read About the Latest News on Construction Cost Stabilize, Submarine Construction Facility in Mobile, and US Army Engineers

Construction Daily News

Over the past 30 days, concrete, gypsum products, and hot rolled steel bars had minor price cuts, according to Associated General Contractors of America senior research analyst Macrina Wilkins. affiliate of Australian shipbuilder Austal, received the contract to build a submarine modular fabrication and outfitting plant in Mobile.