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National Institute of Standards and Technology investigators aim to have a final report, including recommendations for changes to building codes and standards, by the end of 2024. 

The finished contract for an Arizona border station project was valued at about $420,000, and a recently awarded contract for a similar project in New York is worth almost $2 million.

Accident in city's Seaport district caused the latest of at least seven industry fatalities in the last 18 months.

The initiative is geared toward improving building energy performance and community resilience to extreme weather events and other effects of the climate crisis.

Engineers have drafted requirements to improve the ability of public-occupancy temporary structures to resist wind, flood, snow and earthquake loads.

Faced with prospect of trial, insurers settle untested claims about next-door pile installation.

Mayor Michelle Wu's "green new deal" for city public schools begins with focus on 14 buildings neeging replacement or buildings or major renovations

In a world beset by troubles, supertall buildings, which measure from 984 ft to 1,968 ft, would not seem to rate high on a list of priority concerns.