POWER OF ATTORNEY

STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON

       The undersigned officer of Vulcan Materials Company, a New Jersey
corporation, hereby nominates, constitutes and appoints Michael R. Mills, Jerry
F. Perkins Jr., C. Samuel Todd and Jeanne Barlow, or any of them, the true and
lawful attorneys of the undersigned to prepare, based on information provided by
  said officer, and sign the name of the undersigned to (1) any Form 3 required
to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), for and on
  behalf of said officer; (2) any Form 4 required to be filed with the SEC under
  the Exchange Act, for and on behalf of said officer and any and all amendments
  to said reports; and (3) any Form 5 of said officer to be filed with the SEC
under the Exchange Act, for and on behalf of said officer and any and all
amendments to said reports.

       The undersigned hereby grants to said attorneys full power of
substitution, resubstitution and revocation, all as fully as the undersigned
could do if personally present, hereby ratifying all that said attorneys or
their substitutes may lawfully do by virtue hereof.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned officer of Vulcan Materials Company
has executed this Power of Attorney this 10th day of March, 2017.


/s/ Thompson S. Baker, II
Name: Thompson S. Baker, II