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 McCownGordon is building the $275 million facility in collaboration with ESI Design Services, Inc. of Hartland, Wisc.

The Michigan Attorney General's Office wants to seek a judgment against Lee Mueller who headed the company that owned the Edenville Dam. 

The building's owner pleaded guilty to an infraction of city code for failing to maintain the building.

Developed by Advanced Construction Robotics of Pittsburgh, TyBOT did 17,823 ties in two shifts across a 7,775-sq-ft area on a bridge in Wisconsin. 

Months before a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, partially collapsed May 28, a structural engineer advised the property owner that an unexpected void space had been discovered during repairs to a damaged area of the exterior brick wall.

Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead. 

Kenneth "Kim" Hawkins was the third family member to run the contractor, which ranks at No. 273 on ENR's current Top 400 Contractor list.

Gaps in construction oversight and in owner TC Energy's standards, policies and administrative controls were the root cause of last year's massive spill into Kansas waterways, says a new third-party independent analysis, with redacted details.

Suit contends that city and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District mishandled operation of river floodgates, causing damage when more than 1 million gallons of water flooded the skyscraper during a 2020 rainstorm.