Agency recommends improved severe weather safety procedures after the partial collapse in Illinois that killed six workers but raises no issues over design or construction.
The Carolina Panthers football team is terminating a contract with the city of Rock Hill, S.C., for an $800-million headquarters and training facility.
In Iowa, CM at-risk would be allowed on all vertical construction but universities could not use DB project delivery, under state legislation passed by both houses.
Investigators said fire was abetted by the lack of fire-rated materials in the structure, part of a $100-million development in Camarillo set to open later this year.
Agreement with at least 35 large residential developers will cover cost of fire protection measures in unsafe buildings more than 11 m tall on which they worked over the last 30 years.
A proposal to incorporate the first U.S. guidance on tornado-resistant design into the model 2024 International Building Code passed the International Code Council’s structural committee by a vote of 14-0.