Business Developments - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 31, 2013	Jan. 28, 2014 Texas Industries Inc.	Mar. 31, 2014 Texas Industries Inc.
Schedule Of Business Development [Line Items]
Number of shares issued per single share			0.700
Quarterly dividends per share			$ 0.40
Business development expenses	$ 9,512,000	$ 307,000		$ 9,458,000

Business development involves the development of products and services, their delivery, design and their implementation. Business development includes a number of techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design. Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service.

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