Justin Beckerman, an 18-year-old high school student from New Jersey, built and wired a fully-functional, one-man submarine, mostly made of the lightweight, yet strong, grooved plastic usually used in piping.
The construction feat is less than...
Building materials group James Hardie has posted a fourth quarter to March net profit of $US30.7 million, down from $US34.5 million, amid ongoing tough trading conditions in its key markets.
Quebec's decision last week to adopt a "wood charter," requiring builders to consider building with wood for all publicly funded infrastructure projects, was sold to the province as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions used in cement and steel...
Building materials maker Hyderabad Industries Ltd is building up its portfolio of non-asbestos based products such as tiles, walls and ceiling.
As part of this strategy, it is expanding i...
There they stand, a profusion of brick temples in all their majesty, testifying to human ingenuity overcoming nature’s parsimony. The lack of suitable building materials in the region did...
On 3/26/13, CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd. (Toronto: CWX) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.07, payable on 4/12/13. As a percentage of CWX's recent stock price of $2.68, this dividend works out to approximately 2.61%,...
Building materials group Brickworks has vowed not to waste any more time reviewing its long-standing cross-shareholding with investment vehicle Washington H Soul Pattinson.
Building materials group Brickworks has vowed not to waste any more time reviewing its long-standing cross-shareholding with investment vehicle Washington H Soul Pattinson.