Can wood replace steel in a 70-story skyscraper? Architects and biochemists at Cambridge think so. Meanwhile at MIT, rethinking cement is cutting... In a head-spinning step, a handful of researchers ...

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The latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0243 ET – Tata Steel is likely focusing on cost reductions, Axis ...

Rising costs for basic building materials, along with continually expensive oil and creeping subcontracting costs, are breaking the budgets of many large commercial construction projects and forcing ...