An agreement by the American Society of Civil Engineers and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration outlines plans to ensure U.S. infrastructure is designed to be more resilient and “climate-ready.”

ENR New York held its annual Regional Best Projects breakfast on Nov. 15 at The Lighthouse on Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers.

Rescue operations end and recovery begins after twisters, uncommon for this month, swept through the Ohio River Valley, collapsing an Illinois Amazon distribution facility and a Kentucky candle factory.

The sweeping updates include a slate of construction safety code changes.

Six months after an explosion and fire destroyed a grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz., investigators are still trying to figure out all that happened. 

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic.