Palestine: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has commenced a project to recycle Gaza’s war rubble into aggregates for use in repaving the territory’s roads and communal spaces, Reuters has reported. UNDP Gaza Head Alessandro Mrakic said that the organisation has removed 287,000t of a rubble of an estimated 61Mt and recycled close to 100% of this. Full clearance is estimated to take seven years provided there is accelerated and unimpeded access for heavy machinery and consistent fuel supplies. The United Nations, EU and World Bank have estimated the cost of recovery and reconstruction at US$71.4bn up to 2036.

Delivery of a US$7bn relief fund organised by the US-led Board of Peace has stalled following the outbreak of the on-going War in the Gulf. The US had pledged a further US$10bn and the UN US$2bn, while sporting body FIFA pledged US$75m for football-related initiatives. The International Court of Justice in the Netherlands previously found Israel liable for full reparations for its actions in its occupied territories in a June 2024 advisory opinion which Israel formally rejected.

US: Mapei Corporation has launched Dynamon XTend 4047, a polycarboxylate-based high-range water-reducing admixture for concrete. The product is designed to deliver extended slump life and higher strength at all ages in precast concrete production and ready-mix concrete applications. Tunnelling Business Magazine News has reported that the admixture is compatible with all Portland cement types.

Serbia: Ready-mix concrete producer Beton Plus will issue a five-year bond worth €85.2m to fund acquisitions and ownership restructuring, SeeNews has reported. The producer will use proceeds to acquire construction and development companies Brigate, City Road Group and Marera Properties, and to merge Marera Construction, Marera Property Management and Marera Services into its own operations. It will also establish a holding structure. Primary trading is set to begin on 14 April 2026.

US: Amrize won two Slag Cement Association (SCA) Lower Carbon Concrete awards at the American Concrete Institute Convention in Chicago on 1 April 2026. One award was for an AI-optimised concrete mix supplied for the construction a Meta data centre in Rosemount, Minnesota. The other was for an EcoTect reduced-CO₂ concrete mix that was supplied for the construction of a Procter & Gamble production plant in Andover, Massachusetts.