When an intense construction fire shut down one of Pittsburgh’s busiest bridges last September, fire trouble had not been completely unexpected.

Two separate failures of three canti­levered flanges of three precast, prestressed-concrete double-T parking-deck sections—reinforced with a non-code-compliant, high-strength carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer grid—are putting the spotlight on the structural safety of corrosion-resistant FRP grids for transverse reinforcement of double-Ts.

Social media are transforming the way firms communicate with the public and the construction industry and how they recruit new talent.

For physician-scientist Richard P. Lifton, 19 nights of intentional sleep disruption last summer had nothing to do with a medical experiment.