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This week crews poured the 60th and last residential floor at One Rincon, the condominium atop San Francisco's Rincon Hill.

Britain is now home to two of the world’s most advanced plaster and plasterboard manufacturing plants following a £120-million investment in production capacity by British Gypsum.

Top brands, bottle manufacturers, retailers and technology experts have teamed up under a UK-government programme to cut 20,000 tonnes of glass from beer, cider and spirit packaging.

Winemakers and retailers will learn this week how to reduce their impact on climate change by bottling imported wines within the UK – and boost recycling as they do so.

Burj Dubai, on course to becoming the world's tallest tower, is taking its final shimmering form as installation of curtain wall glass panels commenced on Level 19 of the super-structure developed by Emaar Properties.

The luxury tower to be built on the longtime site of the Park Lane restaurant at Gates Circle will be a sleek 23-story glass building with 68 upscale condos, the developer’s newly unveiled plans show.

It has been called "the world's longest bridge", not because of the distance it should cover -- 94 meters, but because of the time it has taken to build -- 11 years and counting.

Glaziers in Yorkshire will be able to recycle their waste glass, wood and plastics, across a network of depots in the region - believed to be one of the first networks of its kind.

Thrillseekers can now take in a unique view of Melbourne from a glass-floored cube hanging from the side of the city's tallest building.

More than 600 years after the city's most famous monument was built, construction starts in June of a modern glass and steel building that will simulate a tilt with a trick of lighting.

North East glassmakers are heading out to the United Arab Emirates as they look to break into the Gulf’s lucrative glass market.

Pioneers in the field of flat glass processing, Sejal Glass has emerged into one of the leading players in the industry with a commendable market share.

"The use of SentryGlas Expressions decorative laminated glass rneans that we could create a design for the CCBR façade that is distinct and visually arresting.

The Portfolio Analysis - Toughened & Laminated Glass is a comprehensive evaluation of the UK market. The revised and updated 2007 edition analyses the financial performance of the companies important to the success of your business.

Marking the last major construction stage for Toledo, Ohio’s, landmark Maumee River Bridge, the 176 glass panels that will be installed on the crossing’s 404-ft-tall pylon began arriving at the site on March 29.

The façade of Strathclyde Business Centre’s newest office block – Duart House– has been completed by glass installation specialists Solaglas Contracting Scotland.

In conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Arab World Institute, construction has begun in New York City on Jean Nouvel's latest glass and steel landmark, a direct material and conceptual descendant of his Paris tour de…

Following the search for strategic partners for its specialty bottles business, the Saint-Gobain Group has selected the project of a consortium of two investment funds, Sagard and Cognetas.

Pilkington Planar™ structural glazing system has been used to stunning effect at a new library in the southwest seaport town of Turku, Finland.

Materials engineers have created a new type of coating that attracts water yet beads oils – traits that are usually mutually exclusive – promising potential applications such as "self-cleaning" eyeglasses and antifogging car windshields…

The Skywalk glass bridge suspended above the Grand Canyon will be opened to the public. Constructed on the Indian Hualapai tribe’s territory of Peach Springs (Arizona), The Skywalk was imagined and built by architect Mark Johnson from MRJ Architects…

The annual amount of glass recycled to make new bottles and jars has increased to a record 756,000 tonnes according to estimates from British Glass.

Research Frontiers Incorporated and SmartGlass International Ltd. announced that SmartGlass International Ltd. has acquired a non-exclusive license to use Research Frontiers' patented SPD-Smart(TM) light-control technology for architectural…

The average price of manufactured products in the U.K. recorded an increase of 0.3 per cent in February, the Office for National Statistics said a report Monday.