A state judge dismissed all charges against five defendants in connection with injuries to two women and the death of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab on a waterslide in Kansas City, Kan., in 2016.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan scrapped Thomas Heatherwick's green span design in 2017, declining to underwrite long-term maintenance costs.

The fix is under way of the fractured twin plate girders that span 80 ft across Fremont Street in the 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, but a reopening date is not yet set.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, in its 2018 CTBUH Tall Building Year in Review, found that 18 supertall buildings 300 meters or taller completed construction last year—a record number that beats 2017, but only by three.

The Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama recently released Diller Scofidio + Renfro's first conceptual design for the proposed Centre for Music in London.

An update of a National Institute of Building Sciences study on benefit-to-cost ratios of hazard-mitigation investments has determined an 11:1 BCR over time for jurisdictions that have adopted model building code updates versus those that still use codes from the 1990s.

San Francisco is seeking input from technical experts on its landmark tall-buildings seismic safety study. Suggestions from seismic design professionals, especially about code reform, will help inform the city’s path forward.

To grease the wheels of mass timber building construction in the state, the California Government Operations Agency is holding a developer-design competition for commercial and multifamily mass-timber building projects.

With floors 10 and 11 of Seattle’s 58-story Rainier Square Tower under construction concurrently, crews from the Erection Co. are meeting or exceeding speed predictions for the radical composite steel frame’s steel erection, core welding and core concrete casting.

On Jan. 10, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority announced that procurement has begun for the repair of the two fractured bottom flanges of the twin parallel girders that span 80 ft across Fremont Street in the 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco.