POWER OF ATTORNEY

STATE OF ALABAMA

COUNTY OF JEFFERSON

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

      This Power of Attorney shall be effective for so
long as the undersigned remains subject to the provisions
of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, unless earlier revoked
by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed
this Power of Attorney this 23rd day of October, 2017.




/s/Stanley G. Bass

Stanley G. Bass