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09/15/2008 OSHA Proposes Citations For Deadly March Accident

09/10/2008 Cosmetic Remedies May Fix Las Vegas Hotel's Façade

09/10/2008 Maryland Proposes Tough Rules As New York Has Another Death

09/03/2008 Fire and Structure: Five Responses to the 7 WTC Collapse Report

09/03/2008 Engineers’ Reaction Strong To Seven WTC Collapse Report

08/27/2008 Thermal Expansion Razed Tower on 9/11

08/27/2008 Ground Zero Project’s Fatal Flaws Aired

08/21/2008 Institute Suggests Expansion Of Structural Endurance Concept

08/20/2008 Pittsburgh Convention Center Report Slams Job’s Oversight

08/20/2008 California Begins $8-Billion Prison Health-Care Facilities Program

08/20/2008 U.S. Embassy Opens In China for Games

08/13/2008 Chilling Advances In Refrigeration

08/11/2008 Las Vegas Losing Streak Continues As Slowdown Hits Another Project

08/08/2008 U.S. Embassy Opens in Beijing as Oympic Games Begin

08/04/2008 Vegas $4.8B Mega Resort Project Halted Amid Market Decline

07/23/2008 California Energy-Use Rules Are Welcomed

07/07/2008 Push Begins for New Hospital To Care for Wounded Warriors

06/30/2008 Official: Major Delays, Cost Overruns Hit World Trade Center Projects

06/25/2008 New Jersey Case Moves to Court

06/11/2008 Chicago 2016 Games Bid May Hinge on Infrastructure Health

06/06/2008 Inventor of Osterberg Load Test Cell Dies

06/05/2008 House Approves School Bill, But Obstacles Persist

06/04/2008 Rating System Updaters Plan To Raise the Sustainability Bar

05/28/2008 Curvaceous Concrete Slabs Inspire Edgy Building Method

05/28/2008 Seattle Weighs Upgrades for Unreinforced-Masonry Buildings

05/21/2008 Methodology Coming Soon for Performance-Based Buildings

05/21/2008 Report Calls for Metrics, Redoing Current Practices

05/20/2008 ASCE Assembling Team To Study China's Infrastructure 'Lifelines'

05/14/2008 Rx for Texas Army Medical Site: A $2-Billion High-Tech Upgrade

05/07/2008 Flood Control, Cleanup Propel Riverside Project in Toronto

05/07/2008 Form-Based Codes Help Shape New Urbanism

05/06/2008 Major Contract Pushes $2-Bil. San Antonio BRAC Forward

05/05/2008 United Nations Breaks Ground On New Headquarters in NYC

04/30/2008 Unified Rules Coming From DOD and GSA

04/29/2008 Las Vegas Strip Claims Another Craft Worker

04/23/2008 Lack of Interoperability Is Biggest of Many Gripes

04/22/2008 Patricia Lancaster Resigns As NYC Buildings Dept. Head

04/16/2008 Boston Expects $12 Billion Of New Building Construction

04/09/2008 Overall Performance Metrics Make Case for Going Green

04/03/2008 Crews Place Last Sections Of New Jersey Clock Tower

03/31/2008 L.A. Mayor Moves to Speed Building Project Approvals

 

 

03/26/2008 Norwegian Apartment Building Collapses Under Avalanche

03/26/2008 Inexpensive Tube System May Protect Eroding Shore

03/26/2008 Wind Dampers Lighten Up Twin High-Rises in Manila

03/20/2008 Clark County Overhauls Building Inspection Reviews

03/19/2008 Performance Guide Coming

03/13/2008 Two More Towers Start to Rise From Ground Zero's Footprint

03/12/2008 World's Tallest Tower's Opening Pushed Back

03/12/2008 Abu Dhabi Plans To Surpass Dubai in Mega-Developments

03/12/2008 Skyscraper Group Regains Stature

03/12/2008 Building Sector Needs Reeducation

03/11/2008 Cost Climb Sharply At Small Nevada Museum

03/05/2008 Seattle Adopts New Green Landscaping Initiative

03/05/2008 New Building Standard Moves Closer to Adoption

03/04/2008 DOD Awards $1.1 Billion For D.C.-Area Projects

02/20/2008 Decorative Material Under Investigation

02/19/2008 OSHA Proposes Fine Of $465,000 After Bank Fire

02/13/2008 Courthouse Opens Late and $96.4 Million Over Budget

02/13/2008 Strong Reaction To Failure Report

02/06/2008 California Voters Passing Education Bond Measures

02/06/2008 Multiple Errors Led To Beam Failure

01/30/2008 Concrete Institute Updates Building Code Guidebook

01/30/2008 Isolators Move Up To Allow Bigger Addition to Building

01/25/2008 Fire Extinguished on Top Floors of Las Vegas Casino Hotel

01/23/2008 Sustainable Building Standard Expected by Year-End

01/18/2008 Default Notice Threatens $3B Las Vegas Mega-Resort

01/16/2008 'Performance' Design Floodgates Open on the West Coast

01/16/2008 San Francisco's 590-ft Skyscraper Lifts Seismic Design's Stature

01/10/2008 Cracked Windows at NY Times Tower Under Investigation

01/02/2008 Plaza Sweet: Facelift Nearly Done on NYC Icon

 


 

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