Top building products for May 2024

BD+C Editors break down May's top 15 building products, from Durat and CaraGreen's Durat Plus to Zurn Siphonic Roof Drains.

Despite challenges, 2024 construction material prices continue to stabilize

Gordian’s Q2 2024 Quarterly Construction Cost Insights Report indicates that supply chain issues notwithstanding, many commodities are exhibiting price normalization.

3 mass timber architecture innovations

As mass timber construction evolves from the first decade of projects, we're finding an increasing variety of mass timber solutions. Here are three primary examples.

Portland's Timberview VIII mass timber multifamily development will offer more than 100 affordable units

An eight-story, 72,000-sf mass timber apartment building in Portland, Ore., topped out this winter and will soon offer over 100 affordable units. The structure is the tallest affordable housing mass timber building and the first Type IV-C affordable housing building in the city.

Legislation | Apr 18, 2018

Steel and aluminum tariffs raise more questions than answers for domestic suppliers

Are import quotas and a “Buy American” infrastructure mandate in the cards?

Legacy structural products in a wood crate

75 Top Building Products | Mar 26, 2018

101 Top Products: Structural 2018

Among the best structural products included in BD+C's Top 101 Products report are Versa-Lok's Bronco II Wall System, and Owens Corning's Thermafiber SAFB.

Great Solutions | Feb 8, 2018

Stackable steel modules speed building core construction

With this patented, steel-and-concrete hybrid system, the service core will no longer be the schedule bottleneck on new construction projects.

Wood | Feb 5, 2018

The largest timber office building in the U.S. will anchor Newark, N.J. mixed-use development

Michael Green Architecture is designing the building.

BD+C University Course | Aug 23, 2017

AIA course: New steel systems add strength and beauty

Advances in R&D are fostering new forms of structural and aesthetic steel.

Jun 13, 2017

Accelerate Live! talk: A case for Big Data in construction, Graham Cranston, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Graham Cranston shares SGH’s efforts to take hold of its project data using mathematical optimization techniques and information-rich interactive visual graphics.

Structural Materials | Apr 3, 2017

Best of structural steel construction: 4WTC, Fulton Center, Pterodactyl win AISC IDEAS2 Awards

The annual awards program, sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, honors the best in structural steel design and construction.

Structural Materials | Dec 15, 2016

‘Disappearing’ bridges planned to connect sandstone pillars in Zhangjiajie

The project will consist of three pavilions and several bridges and cost around $5.3 million.

Wood | Nov 1, 2016

Oregon lumber provider unveils mass plywood panel for tall wood structures

Designed as an alternative for cross laminated timber (CLT), MPP is a large-scale plywood panel with maximum finished panel dimensions up to 12 feet wide by 48 feet long and up to 24 inches thick.