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Industry has until March to develop a plan and funding to replace on mid-height buildings the type of cladding linked to the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London that caused 72 deaths.

Using a modified method, Shimmick’s Legacy Foundations restarted work on the troubled perimeter pile upgrade of the ailing Millennium Tower in San Francisco.

The century-old Times Square venue is being physically lifted into place at the $2.6-billion, 46-story building being constructed on its site.

Significant security improvements have been made to the U.S. Capitol since the Jan. 6, 2021, deadly storming of the landmark building.

The structural engineer for the tower's perimeter pile upgrade has proposed a scheme to reduce the number of piles and speed the delayed project to completion by the end of 2022.

Cincinnati’s West End is a mostly Black neighborhood where, compared to the rest of the city, the median income is lower and the percentage of residents who rent is higher. So when FC Cincinnati, the city’s professional soccer team, chose the neighborhood for its $250-million TQL Stadium, it raised both hopes and worries about what would happen to the area.

Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.

The bill includes some exceptions for non-residential uses.

Rescue operations end and recovery begins after twisters, uncommon for this month, swept through the Ohio River Valley, collapsing an Illinois Amazon distribution facility and a Kentucky candle factory.