A confidential police report revealed a litany of weaknesses that contributed to last June’s fire at London’s 24-floor Grenfell Tower residential building, causing 71 deaths.
Studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 5% to 10% of patients in acute care facilities contract infections there—a figure that’s been on the rise for the last 30 years.
A three-person peer-review panel has given a green light to the cutting-edge structure for Seattle’s Rainier Square Tower, an 850-ft-tall “proof of concept” for a new core system, which will have a tied dual-plate shear wall, field-filled with rebar-less concrete.
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