Saudi Arabia’s United Cooperative Assurance has received a claim from contractor Saudi Binladin Group related to the collapse of a super-heavy-lift crawler crane in Mecca on Sept. 11 that killed more than 100 people.
On Aug. 22, the Herrenknect tunnel-boring machine completed its work, excavating the 3.3- kilometer-long underwater section of the Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul.
Turner Construction Co. says Santa Clara County, Calif., officials shut down work on Sept. 11 at an overbudget and behind-schedule county hospital expansion project in San Jose.
Crews from Dykon Blasting Corp., Tulsa, Okla., safely imploded an eight-story building in east Denver on Aug. 29. The early Saturday morning demolition of the former University of Colorado Biomedical Building makes way for a $419-million, mixed-use commercial development at the former site of the University of Colorado medical campus.
