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This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood
This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood
NEW YORK - Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood. The construction is basic: a pair of overlapping logs, fitted together with a notch. It's nearly half a mi...
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Projects, innovation and people: Celebrating National Construction Appreciation Week
National Construction Appreciation Week celebrates the dedicated, hardworking me...
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Texas prioritises roads and highways over water quality improvements
The growth of Texas continues to place strain on its infrastructure. “Texas gai...
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One of Detroit’s last derelict skyscrapers gets the makeover treatment
One of Detroit’s last remaining derelict skyscrapers is undergoing a $75 million...
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This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood
NEW YORK - Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that...
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Projects, innovation and people: Celebrating National Construction Appreciation Week
National Construction Appreciation Week celebrates the dedicated, hardworking me...
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Texas prioritises roads and highways over water quality improvements
The growth of Texas continues to place strain on its infrastructure. “Texas gai...
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One of Detroit’s last derelict skyscrapers gets the makeover treatment
One of Detroit’s last remaining derelict skyscrapers is undergoing a $75 million...
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Undo Line 5 shutdown order, federal government’s filing urges U.S. appeals court
WASHINGTON - Ottawa is urging a U.S. appeals court to reverse a Wisconsin judge'...
Infrastructure , US News
U.S. Spotlight: What’s in a name? Ask SNC; ground zero performing arts center; Biden supports major rail plans
This week the U.S. Spotlight by ConstructConnect’s Daily Commercial News feature...
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Construction Appreciation Week offers opportunity to show off rewarding careers
For the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America, National Construction A...
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Precast Days 2023 events scheduled in 22 cities across U.S. in October
TORONTO — Precast Days 2023 are being hosted by the National Precast Concrete As...
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Ex NFL receiver Mike Williams dies two weeks after being injured in construction accident
TAMPA, FL. - Former NFL receiver Mike Williams, who was injured in a constructio...
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest con...
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Biden, Modi and EU unveil rail and shipping project linking India to Middle East and Europe
NEW DELHI - President Joe Biden and his allies on Saturday announced plans to bu...
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11 hurt when walkway collapses during Maine open lighthouse event
ARROWSIC, MAINE — Eleven people were hurt when a walkway collapsed during an ann...
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Granite Construction becomes presenting partner for Inclusive Leaders Institute
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Granite Construction will be the presenting partner for the...
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U.S. Spotlight: Move over Hoover Dam; Iowa building collapse update; light at the end of the Texas HSR tunnel
This week the U.S. Spotlight by ConstructConnect’s Daily Commercial News feature...
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Not all stained-glass in heritage buildings is created equal
Not all stained-glass in older North American church buildings is created equal...
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Lifting for the Troops campaign to help children who lost a parent in the line of duty
TULSA — Manufacturer of lifting and securement solutions Kito Crosby’s Lifting f...
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Probe of Florida building collapse that killed 98 to be completed by June 2025, US investigators say
The probe into the 2021 collapse of a beachfront condominium building that kille...
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Report blames deadly Iowa building collapse on removal of bricks and lack of shoring
A partial building collapse in Iowa that killed three people in May was caused b...
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Owner of collapsed Iowa building that killed 3 people files lawsuit blaming engineering company
DAVENPORT, IOWA - The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May,...
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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to ‘Stop Cop City’ movement
ATLANTA - Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges...
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For Texas, the light at the end of the tunnel is high speed rail
Across the United States, initiatives are underway to develop a national high sp...
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U.S. Spotlight: Learning from Katrina disaster; Hawaii wildfire lawsuit; new Roosevelt library
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Powered by solar and wind, this $10B transmission line will carry more energy than the Hoover Dam
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam...
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U.S. construction employment rises but many openings remain
ARLINGTON, VA. — U.S. construction employment increased in 226 of 358 metro area...
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18 years after Katrina levee breaches, group wants future engineers to learn from past mistakes
Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures - and how to avoi...
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Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the U.S.
RENO, NV. - Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persi...
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U.S. Spotlight: P3s for all sizes; Austin a tech hub for Texas; Manhattan’s mass timber High Line
This week the U.S. Spotlight by ConstructConnect’s Daily Commercial News feature...
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Theodore Roosevelt presidential library taking shape in North Dakota
BISMARCK, N.D. - Construction is underway for the Theodore Roosevelt presidentia...
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Maui County sues utility, alleging negligence over fires that ravaged Lahaina
HONOLULU - Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Company on Thursday over the fires...
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Solar panels to surround Dulles Airport will deliver power to 37,000 homes
CHANTILLY, VA. - Travelers taking off and landing at Dulles International Airpor...
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Maui wildfires renew tensions around water rights in a centuries old conflict over sacred streams
LAHAINA, HI - Shortly after the ignition of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more...
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Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green now has a low-rise gentrified look
From perhaps America’s most notorious public housing project to a variegated con...
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$85.3M Grandview Kids HQ begins to take shape in Ajax
The new Grandview Kids headquarters project in Durham Region is progressing and...
Infrastructure
Gordie Howe International Bridge tower construction almost complete
DETROIT — Over the next four weeks there will be major changes on the constructi...
Infrastructure
SNC-Lavalin changing its name to AtkinsRealis in effort to shed parts of its past
MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin says it is changing its name to AtkinsRealis in a rebrand...
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UPDATE: Police locate driver and car involved in hit-and-run of road worker
TORONTO - A 24-year-old from North York is in custody after a road maintenance w...
OH&S
New $1.2B Thunder Bay correctional centre the first of its kind in Ontario
Construction crews are presently doing civil work and finishing a substructure t...
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest con...
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Graham outlines what goes into constructing U of T Lawson Centre for Sustainability
The Lawson Centre for Sustainability is a four-storey, hybrid mass timber and co...
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Eliminating misconceptions, filling gaps focus of national mass timber research project
The goal of a new research program is to generate technical information that sup...