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The only group in the U.S. and Canada that collects and disseminates lessons from failures, errors, mishaps and safety issues is calling for reports on structural and jobsite hazards arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The centerpiece of the school’s new performing arts center is a 1,400-seat auditorium with a stage and fly loft that reach just over 75 ft tall.

Teams are working behind the scenes on longer-lead time COVID-19 retrofits and conversions for hospitals, hotels and dormitories. Many of these are aimed at increasing the supply of coronavirus-patient intensive care units and airborne infection isolation rooms to protect health-care workers.

As current and projected demand for added hospital beds to care for COVID-19 patients reaches dire levels in parts of the U.S., contractors are helping health care systems and governments explore a variety of ways to address the shortages.

For design professionals, supporting the ongoing COVID-19 surge in the number of hospital beds needed is a matter of urgency. 

Team building (W)rapper’s ribboned exoskeleton, which is not self-supporting until it is done, relies on falsework for stability during steel erection.

Trump has signed the $2-trillion measure passed by Congress, but in some cases, states and localities would determine how much to spend on operations or construction.