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US: Construction firm PNK Group has unveiled a 111,000m² manufacturing, warehousing and distribution facility in McDonough, Georgia, that showcases its new proprietary precast building system. The system enabled PNK Group to rapidly assemble the facility from high-precision reinforced precast concrete structural frame and other standardised elements, produced at its plants in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

UK: Construction firm John Sisk & Son has successfully concluded its construction of part of the Wembley Park mixed development using concrete produced with Ecocem’s ACT alternative circular cement. The concrete met design specifications for all elements, while reducing embodied CO₂ emissions by 70%. Construction Index News has reported that Capital Concrete and Creagh Concrete also participated in the project, which commanded €594,000 in Innovate UK funding.

South Korea: The construction and ready-mix concrete industries have concluded four months of negotiations with an agreement that ready-mix concrete prices will come down by 2.5% to US$62.8/m³. Chosun Biz News has reported that Youngwoo Association represented local ready-mix concrete producers throughout negotiations.

US: Illinois-based Point Ready Mix will launch new branding for its concrete mixer trucks featuring the 988 Lifeline phone number and the suicide prevention slogan You Matter Big Time!! from April 2025. The message jointly targets workers at building sites and the general public, especially those using main roads.

Local press has reported that Point Ready Mix President David LaPointe said "Our trucks are travelling locally all the time. In a way, we’re interacting with everybody driving through traffic. There could be a person sitting at a stoplight who needs to see it." He continued “The construction industry has been hit especially hard by this dilemma. They’re finding it’s a combination of long, unpredictable hours and time away from home. There are many struggles in construction. Most families know somebody [affected by suicide]."

Saudi Arabia: MGB International for Industry, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based MGB, has received two orders worth US$20m from property developer Sany Alameriah for the supply and installation of precast elements for its Al Arous residential construction project near Jeddah in Mecca Province. The New Straits Times newspaper has reported that the orders cover 42,000m³ of concrete for a total of 326 housing units. Sany Alameriah expects construction to conclude within 14 months of commencement.

US: Representatives of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) have testified before a congressional appropriations subcommittee that their organisations are investigating ways of incorporating ‘advanced construction methods’ into their operations. These methods include mass timber construction, as well as the use of carbon fibre-reinforced polymers, geosynthetics, ‘high-performance’ concrete mixes and composite materials. The stated aims of the investigations are to improve resilience, reduce costs and accelerate construction timelines.

NAVFAC Chief Engineer Keith Hamilton said that NAVFAC is currently piloting hybrid mass timber exterior envelope construction, including cross-laminated timber walls and diaphragms, at a childcare facility for Navy families. USACE Director of Military Programmes Dave Morrow said that USACE has designed a barracks featuring mass timber structural elements.

US: UK-based Breedon Group has acquired Missouri-based roadbuilding firm Lionmark for US$241m. The group says that the acquisition will double its US revenues. The Daily Mail newspaper has reported that Breedon Group currently faces a construction sector ‘slowdown’ in its home market of the UK.

Breedon Group first entered the US through its acquisition of ready-mix concrete producer BMC Enterprises in March 2024.

US: Australia-based FBR has supplied its Hadrian X robotic bricklayer for the construction of homes in Charlotte County, Florida. Local press has reported that FBR partner CRH Ventures supplied concrete blocks for the project. Hadrian X is able to lay 300 blocks per hour.

FBR’s Hadrian X previously built nine houses in Charlotte County and Lee County in 2024.

Australia: Permacast Future Industries, a joint venture of nickel slag-based cement developer Suvo Strategic Minerals and precast concrete producer Permacast, has signed a binding two-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) to supply its reduced-CO₂ concrete to wind farm developer Wind With Purpose (WWP). WWP will explore the use of the concrete in wind turbine foundations and towers. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper has reported that WWP’s upcoming wind farms in Western Australia require 500 turbines, each using 1000m³ of concrete.

North America: The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute announced the winners of its 2025 Design Awards for supply of concrete to challenging projects in the past year, FCP News has reported. Dukane Precast’s 43 Green Phase 1 supply project in Chicago, Illinois, won the All-Precast Concrete Solution Award. Unistress’ Teterboro ATCT supply project in Teterboro, New Jersey, won the Building Information Modelling Award. GATE Precast’s Baptist Hospital Campus supply project in Pensacola, Florida, won the Sustainable Design Award.