In one of the state’s largest jobs announcements of the year so far, the Vietnamese solar producer Boviet Solar promises to create more than 900 jobs at a future facility in the Eastern North Carolina city of Greenville. The company was founded in 2013 and manufactures photovoltaic modules technologies which convert sunlight to energy. By 2028, Boviet says it will create 908 jobs and invest ...
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As construction season's orange cones and barrels spring up along Kentucky highways, state officials remind everyone to drive distraction free and slow down. Those safe driving practices will reduce the dangers highway crews face in work zones and could save lives. In 2023, Kentucky recorded 1,251 crashes in highway work zones where 247 people were injured and 17 lost their lives – nearly ...
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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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The Little Pee Dee River’s winding path carries it through peaceful, wildlife-filled swamps as it flows between busy Interstate 95 and bustling Myrtle Beach on South Carolina’s northern coast. It’s in an area that for years has stayed relatively free of heavy development like that found along the Grand Strand. But a proposed freeway that would link I-95 to Myrtle Beach threatens to disrupt the ...
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It’s been more than three years since the Miami city commission approved a comprehensive plan to restore the historic yet long-shuttered Miami Marine Stadium. Eight years since the commission authorized $45 million in bonds, never issued, to fund its renovation. Ten years since Jimmy Buffett headlined a fundraiser with Gloria and Emilio Estefan, fellow veterans of the stadium’s floating ...
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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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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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Over the next several months, the towering multi-story building near a Florida shopping mall should begin to look less like a construction site and more like an aquarium. This time next year, the $130 million Mote Science Education Aquarium should be open to visitors if everything goes according to plan. The aquarium is being build near Interstate 95 in Sarasota County. Ahead of a scheduled ...
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When William Neeley saw the photos and video of a heavy crane plummeting hundreds of feet onto cars below, his gut told him a catastrophic failure occurred, he said to the Miami Herald. It wasn’t just his 41 years of construction crane operation and training expertise that informed his opinion. He knew that specific crane and the crew that was tasked to help put it together atop a Fort ...
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South Florida is no stranger to fatal or harmful construction accidents as the region booms in population and real estate growth. A heavy crane piece falling onto cars in Fort Lauderdale, killing a construction worker, is only the most recent fatal incident. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Fort Lauderdale office has handled over a dozen crane-related incidents in which a ...
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