News Construction deaths in Singapore surge to eight-year high Singapore has warned of a “lack of basic safety measures” after recording 15 construction fatalities in the second half of 2024, a threefold jump from the five recorded in the…
News Massachusetts construction boss sentenced to 18 months for lying about workplace death Mauricio Baiense, the owner and operator of Contract Framing Builders (CFB), a Massachusetts construction company, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and lying under oath…
News Ex-minister among 12 arrested after Serbian train station collapse A Serbian court on Saturday ordered 10 people, including a former minister, to be detained for up to 30 days over the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad…
News China calls for action on unpaid construction wages amid spate of mass killings In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted local governments to clear the vast backlog of…
News Singapore calls for ‘safety time out’ amid fatalities surge Singapore urged construction firms to take a two-week “safety time out” this month after a surge in workplace fatalities. Ten people died in construction accidents between July and October this…
News Europe funds €900m recovery effort for flood-hit Spain The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced an initial €900m recovery and reconstruction package for Spain following floods in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia that led to more than…
News Protests in Serbia after station roof collapse kills 14 A partial roof collapse at a recently renovated train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday killed 14 people and seriously injured three. A six-year-old girl was…
News Chinese engineers killed in latest suicide attack in Pakistan Two Chinese engineers were killed and at least 10 people were injured in a suspected suicide attack last night near Jinnah international airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body was…
News Worker dies on shuttle refurbishment site at Tampa airport A 29-year-old worker has died on a construction project at Florida’s Tampa International Airport after the machine he was operating fell from the airport’s shuttle track with him inside just…
News 15 dead, many missing after highway bridge collapse in China Rescuers have now found the bodies of 15 people who died when a highway bridge collapsed in flash floods in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Xinhua reports. Many are still missing…
News Widow of Philadelphia construction worker awarded $68m in compensation A jury in Philadelphia has ordered that the widow of a construction worker should receive compensation of $68.5m after it found his death was due to negligence. Siarhei Marhunou, 38,…
News Pritzker Prize-winning modernist Fumihiko Maki dies Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who began training in the aftermath of the Second World War and who won the Pritzker Prize in 1993, has died aged 95. Prominent buildings he…
News Four construction workers shot dead in Kenya Gunmen killed four construction workers building a hospital near a refugee camp in northern Kenya on Friday, the Kenyan Star reports. The construction site is near Kenya’s largest refugee camp,…
News Webuild offers cable-stayed design to replace Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Italian contractor Webuild has put forward a proposal to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which collapsed on the 26 March after being hit by a container ship.…
News Worker on Fehmarnbelt Tunnel dies after site accident A worker on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark has died after being struck on the head by an excavator shovel on Monday afternoon. The 41-year-old Polish worker was…
News Developer sentenced to death in Vietnam’s biggest-ever fraud case A court in Vietnam sentenced property developer Truong My Lan, 67, to death last week after a five-week trial found her guilty of embezzling more than $12.5bn from Vietnam’s largest…
News Bechtel pledges $7m for suicide prevention American engineer Bechtel will donate $7m to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), to be spent on support for 500,000 construction workers over the next five years. The company…
News Valencia fire death toll climbs to 10 Ten people are now known to have died in last week’s fire that spread fast at two residential towers in Valencia, Spain, as questions continue to be raised over their…