All the headlines from our Construction Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2020 // A worker was killed at an Amazon delivery hub under construction at an airport in northern Kentucky, authorities said.The workplace accident occurred Saturday at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport,...
Feb 3 2020 // An Alaska industry group predicted a decrease in 2020 construction spending due to a lower number of earthquake repair projects.The Associated General Contractors of Alaska forecast a decline in construction spending this...
Jan 31 2020 // Wye River Insurance has appointed Katherine Santarelli as president, leading day-to-day operations and providing strategic brokering and consulting services for the newly-formed insurance brokerage. The Baltimore,...
Jan 30 2020 // An oil and gas industry construction company has agreed to pay $242,039 in back wages and damages to 243 employees in West Virginia, the U.S. Labor Department said last month. Apex Pipeline Service Inc. entered into a...
Jan 28 2020 // Two construction workers, participating in the renovation of Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, were injured Saturday when beams fell on a piece of equipment they were operating.Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue...
Jan 27 2020 // A former construction project manager for a real estate development company has pleaded guilty to defrauding banks, construction companies and his employer out of more than $200,000, federal prosecutors say.Gregory Meeker,...
Jan 15 2020 // Wye River Insurance, based in Baltimore, Md., has announced leadership appointments for the newly-formed insurance brokerage serving real estate and construction professionals in the multifamily industry.Long-time...
Jan 7 2020 // A federal judge in Nebraska has awarded more than $610,000 to an Iowa company that sued after it said it wasn’t fully paid for masonry work at a national veterans’ cemetery in Omaha.Seedorff Masonry, of...
Jan 3 2020 // A Maryland man has died after a construction accident in northern Virginia.Nelson Aguilar-Salamanca, 55, was working for a subcontractor on a construction site near the new Capital One headquarters in McLean, Fairfax...
Dec 30 2019 // Firefighters rescued five construction workers who fell during a floor collapse at a work site near the University of Alabama campus Thursday. The workers were on the ground floor level at a site near Tutwiler Hall when...
Dec 18 2019 // A construction company was sentenced to a year of probation in the death of a worker during a 2016 building collapse in downtown Sioux Falls.U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier ordered Hultgren Construction to serve a year...
Nov 27 2019 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating allegations that the immigration arrest of a construction worker hurt in the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans was...
Nov 25 2019 // Kentucky State Police say a vehicle has struck three workers in a construction zone on the Bluegrass Parkway near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. A statement from police says it appears that 18-year-old Dillan Waldridge of...
Nov 19 2019 // Employers in Montana reported a total of 14,100 workplace injuries and illnesses in 2018, with 11,900 of those injuries in the private industry. Of those private industry injuries and illnesses, 5,700 were serious enough...
Nov 7 2019 // Seventeen insurers have restricted insurance services to coal projects in the past two years.A dozen insurers have adopted policies to stop all direct insurance coverage to new coal projects – among them are Allianz,...
Nov 6 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor says it’s fined a construction company approximately $32,000 for not properly protecting against falls at an Alabama work site.Al.com reports the labor department’s Occupational...
Oct 30 2019 // Construction workers are more likely to use drugs than workers in other professions, finds a study by the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research at NYU College of Global Public Health.The study, published in the journal...
Oct 29 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has commenced underwriting casualty and construction insurance in France and filled two key in-country leadership posts, naming Olivier Antiphon as head of...
Oct 29 2019 // Authorities say a 24-year-old construction worker was killed in an elevator mishap in Manhattan. It happened Thursday afternoon at a building on Broadway between 29th and 30th streets. Police say the worker was inside a...
Oct 23 2019 // New Zealand’s flagship international convention center project faces further significant delays as a fire at the central Auckland construction site continues to burn more than 22 hours after breaking out.The fire,...