If you’ve ever purchased ready-to-assemble furniture at IKEA or if you’ve put together toys on Christmas Eve you have been involved with prefabricated products. 

Benjamin Obdyke is bringing its flagship product, HydroGap, to Ontario, Canada, after receiving certification from the Canadian Construction Materials Centre.

As a building owner, the last thing you want is for your façade to fail. 

When it was first drafted in 2000, the International Energy Conservation Code established a model code for states and municipal governments in the United States to set minimum design and construction requirements for energy efficiency. 

A 1965 cast-in-place concrete office building in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., was showing its age.

REI Engineers Inc., which specializes in roofing, waterproofing, exterior walls and pavement engineering, has brought on Roof Engineering Associates of Florida to its operations.

Commercial and single family residential construction techniques have seen a change in recent years. Today, tightening the structures to prevent thermal leakage is a common practice. 

For more than 30 years, a quiet revolution has been taking place in the building materials industry. 

Rising above Interstate 5 in Tacoma, Washington, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ glamorous new Emerald Queen Casino is about to become an entertainment mecca that will beckon drivers to experience a bit of Las Vegas, Pacific Northwest-style.

Resilience is a newer design concern within the construction industry. With the apparent increase in natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, the desire for more resilient buildings is on many people’s minds. However, what is resilience and how do gypsum panel products factor into this new way of thinking?