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The underlying causes of the trouble at San Francisco’s 4.5-block-long Salesforce Transit Center are coming into focus.

The steel fabricator for the third-floor tapered, built-up plate girders at the troubled Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco is calling for a girder-hanger connection design review as part of the probe into the causes of brittle fractures in bottom flanges of twin 80-ft-long members that bridge Fremont Street.

The proposed bypass fix for the troubled Fremont Street girders of San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center calls for bolting 20-in.-wide steel cover plates above and below the fractured bottom flange, like a double splint.

Honda invests in leaner production in Alliston, Ontario

San Francisco’s review of pile scheme to shore 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower will take months

Skanska-built office building in Norway will return power to the grid

Controlled implosions brought down the last structural vestiges of a former military docking and supply center in Bayonne, N.J., on Nov. 30, clearing the way for a 1.6-million-sq-ft logistics center.