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The steel fabricator for the third-floor tapered, built-up plate girders at the troubled Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco is calling for a girder-hanger connection design review as part of the probe into the causes of brittle fractures in bottom flanges of twin 80-ft-long members that bridge Fremont Street.

Fatalities decline 2% in 2017, fatality rate dips to 9.5/100,000 workers, from 10.1.

Italy’s largest contractor Salini Impregilo S.p.A. and state-controlled shipbuilding giant Fincantieri Infrastructure have won a contract to rebuild the collapsed Polcevera Viaduct in Genoa.

It will take more than a year to finalize a rewrite of the controversial WOTUS, which then faces dozens of lawsuits.

The proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the fractured bottom flange, like a double splint.

The City of Denver shuts down selection process on a big expansion project to investigate possible bid rigging before finalists were interviewed.