Construction Firm Grupo Carso Faces Probe After Collapse of Mexico City Railway Line May 19, 2021 By Daina Beth Solomon and Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY – Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s construction arm Grupo Carso faces scrutiny from accident investigators for the possible role...
Massive Fire Breaks Out at N. Zealand Convention Center Building Site October 23, 2019 By Tracy Withers New Zealand’s flagship international convention center project faces further significant delays as a fire at the central Auckland construction site...
Update: Taiwan Bridge Collapse Claims 5 Lives with 1 Person Missing October 3, 2019 Searchers in Taiwan have recovered five bodies and are looking for one more person missing from three fishing boats that...
Bridge in Eastern Taiwan Collapses; Divers Search for Victims October 2, 2019 By Ralph Jennings A towering arch bridge over a bay in eastern Taiwan collapsed Tuesday, sending a burning oil tanker truck falling onto...
Notre-Dame Site Carries Risk of Lead Poisoning and Should Be Sealed, Say Paris Groups August 6, 2019 By Gregory Viscusi Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral should be fully sealed off while it is rebuilt because of the risk of lead poisoning, according...
Ensurance UK Launches Combined Construction Liability Product April 19, 2018 Ensurance UK Ltd., the niche construction and engineering managing general agent (MGA) and Lloyd’s coverholder, has launched a combined construction...
Asbestos Concerns Halt Restoration of Century-Old Washington Hotel March 26, 2018 Restoration work on a century-old former hotel in eastern Washington has been halted after air quality inspectors say they found...
5 Injured in Southern California Balcony Collapse March 26, 2018 Four adults and a girl were injured after a second-story balcony collapsed at an apartment near downtown Los Angeles. The...
Who Will Foot the Bill for San Francisco’s $750M Millennium Tower? February 2, 2017 By James Tarmy and Kartikay Mehrotra Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment...
California Moving to Study Balcony Safety After Fatal Berkeley Collapse September 19, 2016 California is moving to study state balcony standards after a fatal collapse in Berkeley sent shock and horror across the...