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Cross-complaints filed regarding San Francisco’s troubled Salesforce Transit Center, shuttered after girder fractures

New York's latest performing arts center, a $404-million project, takes "flexible space" to the extreme.

Major expansion of Hard Rock Hotel in southern Florida requires sophisticated management of workforce, multiple construction packages

Engineers and architects have the responsibility to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Until building codes adapt, building professionals must seriously consider integrating passive design into their projects to ensure occupant safety during extreme weather events.

The steel subcontractor and the fabricator for the problem bridge-like spans at San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center are vigorously countering the Transbay Joint Powers Authority's contention that a construction error caused the brittle fractures of the hub’s two built-up plate girders.

Much of Manhattan’s 17.4-million-sq-ft Eastern Yard--the 13-acre first phase of the 28-acre Hudson Yards air-rights minicity—is open.