Comments are due Sept. 14 on the estimated $2B Syracuse viaduct project, which aims to resolve dislocation impacts to the city's Black community when the highway was built in 1968.
When news came of the collapse of the Champlain Towers residential high-rise in Surfside, Fla., Pouria Ghods thought back to another fatal collapse, almost exactly nine years earlier at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario.
When the first COVID-related restrictions came down on U.S. construction sites in the spring of 2020, many contractors were caught flat-footed compiling information on workers and visitors for contact tracing.
One of the deadliest accidental building collapses in U.S. history is causing state elected officials, buildings officials, industry groups and others to reassess older buildings and consider the need for stricter regulations and enhanced inspection standards.
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