ANNAPOLIS - As steel rises for the new School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at UMES the Maryland Board of Public Works is expected to award a bid for the second of three construction packages. The $85 million building will be 120,000 gross square feet, three-stories tall and rated LEED Silver for its energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. It will put under one roof various ... Read More

Over the past year, Black leaders have regularly held protest marches outside the fences that surround the site on which the new federal courthouse building in Harrisburg is being built. They march for a bigger piece of a construction jobs pie that, in their view, has been largely unserved to residents of the majority-Black city in which the courthouse is rising. It’s not a new complaint. ... Read More

Jul. 17--POTTER TWP. -- Site leaders at Shell Chemicals' ethane cracker plant this week implemented a new COVID-19 testing lab as positive cases at the complex increase. The company halted its gradual introduction of workers in late June amid a spike in cases that Shell leaders say are linked to growing community spread in the region. A total of 18 workers at the plant have tested positive for ... Read More

Danish energy company Ørsted is no longer seeking to connect an offshore wind farm to the mainland at Fenwick Island State Park. A more thorough evaluation of the site determined the interconnection would be built in an environmentally-sensitive area. "Constructing an interconnection facility on a site with such an extensive presence of undisturbed wetlands runs contrary to Ørsted's deeply ... Read More

Developer Southern Land Co. plans to replace an aged four-level parking garage near Rittenhouse Square with a 27-story apartment tower, betting that rental demand will recover from the coronavirus pandemic by the time the project is completed years from now. The proposed ... Read More

BALTIMORE (AP) — Johns Hopkins University is investigating the discovery of a rope tied into a noose at a construction site in a building it owns off its Baltimore campus. Johns Hopkins officials also notified federal authorities about what the university calls a potential hate crime, the Baltimore Sun reports. “Johns Hopkins University condemns this act of hate,” President Ronald J. Daniels ... Read More

A Northeast Philadelphia contractor admitted in court Monday that he provided home repairs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to labor leader John J. Dougherty and members of his family and was paid with money allegedly embezzled from Dougherty’s union. Anthony Massa, 66, pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy, theft and embezzlement of labor union assets in a hearing before U.S. ... Read More

A Baltimore-based asbestos removal contractor has been ordered to pay more than $960,000 in back wages and damages to resolve allegations of discriminatory hiring and compensation. A federal administrative law judge ordered WMS Solutions to make the payment, finding that the company recruited a Hispanic workforce to the exclusion of other races, then created an abusive and hostile working ... Read More

Danville, Va. - The Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority is considering whether to allow a company to build part of a natural gas pipeline through the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill in southwestern Pittsylvania County. The RIFA board voted 4-0 during its regular meeting Monday to authorize the county administrator and Danville's city manager to further ... Read More

May 19--The general manager for Franklin Regional's Sloan "elementary campus" construction and renovation is confident that contractors will be able to keep pace with the project's original timeline, despite a roughly month-long setback at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. "The only areas we're trying to keep a close eye on, because of covid-19, are materials," Massaro Construction ... Read More