As the one-year anniversary of the fatal SouthPark construction site fire nears, so does a potential toughening of North Carolina’s safety codes, which officials hope will prevent similar tragedies. On May 18 last year, flames erupted from the diesel engine of a trailer carrying spray-foam insulation on the bottom floor of a 239-unit luxury apartment building under construction. Within ...
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Construction has begun on a regional retail complex that will anchor a mixed-use community in Bowie and include Giant Food as a key tenant, developers said Tuesday. Developers of the $1.3 billion South Lake community, one of the largest such developments underway in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, said the new South Lake Marketplace will include 600,000-square-feet of shops, restaurants, ...
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Apr. 15—There is something sprouting out of the ground at the construction site of the $1.7 billion new Buffalo Bills stadium in Orchard Park. It is structural steel and the start of flooring on the decks of the stadium's second level. Two months after the project's first steel was placed beneath the ground in the lower level of the huge bowl that is the foundation for the stadium, the ...
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Attorneys for the families of two Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse victims and a survivor say workers received “no warning” before the container ship Dali struck the bridge. L. Chris Stewart and Justin Miller of Atlanta-based Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys and Daniel Rose and Kevin Mahoney of Kreindler & Kreindler in New York are representing the families of victims’ Alejandro ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than two dozen river barges broke loose from their moorings and floated down the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, striking one bridge that had already been preemptively closed and damaging a marina, officials said. The boats eventually were pinned to the riverbank or went over a dam downstream, officials said. Pittsburgh police, fire and emergency medical services responded ...
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The manufacturing economic links between North Carolina and Japan deepened Thursday with the decision by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies U.S.A. Inc. to expand its Holly Springs facility by 680 jobs over a five-year period starting in 2027. The project represents a $1.2 billion capital investment over four years. The expansion involves a large-scale cell-culture plant on the Holly Springs ...
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A Connecticut-based marine and heavy construction company is being blamed for a pier collapse last fall that sent five workers into the Acushnet River, injuring two of them, according to federal officials. Mohawk Northeast Inc. — which is based in Southington and has an office in Groton — faces a total of about $214,000 in penalties after Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
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With the stroke of the governor’s pen, local governments in Florida are now blocked from requiring heat protections for outdoor workers, driving a stake through the heart of Miami-Dade County’s efforts to keep farmworkers and construction workers safe from extreme heat. Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly signed the bill (HB 433) into law late Thursday night, along with a host of other small bills, ...
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A New Mexico trades labor coalition is pushing state regulators to guarantee community solar projects are constructed with enough apprentices as required by law. New Mexico Building Trades Council, or NMBTC, is a coalition of 15 building and construction trade labor organizations and represents about 10,000 employees in New Mexico, according to the company. The organization filed a response ...
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ROANOKE - Thousands were in attendance Saturday to say goodbye to Roanoke's Wasena Bridge as the city prepares for its demolition and eventual replacement in the coming years. The Wasena Bridge Bonanza, organized by members of the community, gave the public one last chance to walk across the 82-year-old bridge - and to visit its burgeoning business community. The bridge is scheduled to close ...
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