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Forensic engineer brings a level head and reassuring competence to a dangerous New Orleans building collapse site

Stepped up to help guide development of a brain protecting hardhat for construction

After delays that threatened to push the project into 2021, the City of New Orleans announced on Jan. 17 that the partially collapsed structure of the unfinished, 18-story Hard Rock Hotel will be brought down in a controlled demolition in late March, under a new plan to be submitted by demolition contractor D.H. Griffin Cos.

After falling debris kills an architect executive, industry members look at facade laws around the country.

Developers disagreed with a city assessment that they were pushing back the demolition date.

The new standards deal with both operation of the machinery and training and are slated to go into effect March 1.

Six months after Terex Peneir SK415 crane collapsed onto a Dallas apartment building, killing one, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the crane’s owner, Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. citing serious violations.

Transit agency had two derailments and a track fire this summer; safety report cites 61 corrective actions, with multiple general managers since 2010 “incredibly disruptive."

On Dec. 14 at 2:27 p.m., the Arlington Fire Dept. responded to a two-alarm structure fire at Globe Life Field, a $1.1-billion project under construction in Arlington, Texas.