Core stability and rail lines were among the challenges for the hotel, condo development that has been more than 20 years in the making.

The Spot-R clip-on tag was designed to keep workers safe by monitoring for sudden falls, but working on site in a virus pandemic has seen it used for more creative applications.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued a "stay home mandate" Friday afternoon, but construction was included on a list of "essential" activites.

As efforts advance to finally demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, two city building inspectors have been suspended for failing to properly inspect the site last summer.

The council created a special committee to look at the causes of the collapse over the protest of the city's mayor.

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

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.

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

Developers expect to break ground in mid-2020 on a $100 million project to completely transform a 50-year-old suburban shopping center into an open-air retail concept that will blend shopping and dining with upscale apartments and office space. The redevelopment of the 35-acre site will be one of the largest retail projects in the New Orleans metro area.

Among the challenges the project team faced were unprecedented flood threat and maintaining critical functions during construction.