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Extensive planning and some fortuitous timing helped The Inn at Darden project team deliver a much needed upgrade to the University of Virginia’s hospitality offerings.

After an early morning structural collapse of the 447-ft-long, three-span steel K-frame structure sent a bus and several passenger cars plummeting approximately 100 ft into a ravine below and injuring 10 people, Fern Hollow was suddenly in the national spotlight—both as a source of relief that a more serious tragedy had been averted and as a symbol of the nation’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure.

Long before the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, the project team on the Children’s Hospital of Richmond faced a daunting goal: design and construct a 600,000-sq-ft acute care hospital on an urban campus in about four years.

New York State Bridge Authority and Office of Mental Health representatives gathered state lawmakers, local emergency response teams and community leaders for a suicide prevention summit last month to raise awareness, discuss better collaboration and review suicide prevention and emergency mental health response practices around the state’s vehicular and pedestrian bridges, parks and other public spaces.

Removal of the Inner Loop North is expected to be done in 2027.

Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island aim to share developer project proposal selection and boost cross-border economies of scale to meet clean energy production goals.

The team was tested while designing and installing a pair of massive steel trusses on the Frank J. Guarini Justice Complex in Jersey City, N.J.

The joint venture with consultants Moffat & Nichol and Volkert will provide project and program management services.

Rules are designed to reduce the sizable carbon footprint of the ubiquitous construction material.

Analysis noted near shutdown by utlity Con Ed in NYC, as federal energy regulator also okayed four natural gas projects but left a controversial climate change measure undecided.