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Gotham Ready Mix: Leading by Innovation – Concrete Products

Gotham Ready Mix, a concrete supplier in New York City, is no stranger to innovation, delivering performance materials to mid- and high-rise residential or commercial projects across the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx boroughs.

The producer started in 2019 with 35 trucks and three plants in Brooklyn and Bronx. Fast-forward to 2024 and it has grown drastically. Gotham Ready Mix now has 110 trucks and six plants over five locations. Another 20 trucks are currently being built and the com...
For Construction Pros •

Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan - Breach Preparation

This article is the last in a four-part series on cybersecurity and how the construction materials industry can prevent, protect, and prepare for threats and attacks on computer systems and digital assets. Part 1: Cybersecurity Should be at the Top of Your List. Part 2: Prevention: Your First Tool in Cybersecurity Part 3: Protection: The Second Layer of Your Cybersecurity Plan.Cybersecurity starts with prevention, which funnels to protection and ultimately ends with preparation.
Engineering and Mining Journal •

Pebble Partnership CEO Resigns After Comments Made in Secretly Recorded Video

The CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership has stepped down after an environmental group released tapes that show him making comments about his close relationship with elected and regulatory officials in Alaska.

Tom Collier submitted a resignation letter to parent company, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., which said his comments “embellished both his and Pebble Partnership’s relationships with elected officials and federal representatives in Alaska, including Gov. Dunleavy, Sens. [Lisa] Murkowski
Engineering and Mining Journal •

​Dam Bursts at Vale’s Feijão Mine; Death Toll Reaches 99

Engineering and Mining Journal offers its prayers and condolences to our friends and colleagues at Vale and all those who have suffered a loss during this tragedy.

On the afternoon of January 25, a tailings dam collapsed at Vale’s Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, killing at least 99 people and leaving more than 250 missing when part of its contents reached the company’s administrative area and part of the Vila Ferteco community.

The dam contained 11.7 million cubic meters of tailings,
Engineering and Mining Journal •

Group Promotes More Women in Mining

A report by Women in Mining U.K. seeks to make the case for the industry to hire more women.

Currently, 5% to 10% of the workforce in the mining industry is female, the smallest of any large industry. It is also the industry with the fewest number of women on company boards, including the oil and gas industries. To most people, those facts are probably not the least bit shocking, especially since mining has historically been seen as a male-dominated industry. One group is trying to change that p

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