Mario Bladimir Andino Renteria, 32, died when a crane arm failed and dropped its load of mechanical equipment on him during work to replace air handling equipment at HCA Florida Mercy Hospital.
Public agencies are testing a tool that could take monitoring of bridges and dams to a higher level by using data from drones and sensors in a digital twin.
The absence of a fatality or an accident, someone said recently, “doesn’t mean the presence of safety.” Many people involved in safety will appreciate the significance of those words.
A different prefabrication and modular construction sector came out of the pandemic. Ambitious startups such as Skender Manufacturing and Katerra folded in the last few years, while one major health care designer lamented an industrywide pullback that saw many of the suppliers they work with cut back on custom, by-project fabrication to standardize on products like headwalls and bathroom pods.
Demands from clients and labor shortages are forcing some contractors into other methods of creating building assemblies, driving new investments in prefabrication and modular construction techniques.
Germany-based RWE, which is developing offshore projects in New York and California, bid $5.6 million for its 102,000-acre site off Louisiana in the Aug. 29 Gulf of Mexico lease sale,
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration probe into the fatal
February collapse of an oceanfront condo balcony found a failure by the contractor to properly stabilize it and improper securing of lifelines.
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