News Cladding under suspicion as four die in Valencia tower blaze At least four people were killed and between nine and 15 are missing after fire engulfed a high-rise apartment complex in the southern Spanish city of Valencia. A further 15 were…
News Five die on Florence site after concrete beam fails Five workers were killed and three seriously injured after part of a building collapsed on a construction site in Florence, Italy It happened Friday morning when a prefabricated concrete beam…
News Construction firm pleads guilty after fatal fall on its property A construction firm in Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Friday (5 January) to three criminal charges after a worker fell from a roof on the company’s own property…
News Sweden in shock after five workers die in Stockholm elevator failure Five workers died in Stockholm Monday after the construction-site elevator they were in fell 20m to the ground. The incident happened on a site in Sundbyberg, in the north of…
News Four killed in Hamburg scaffolding collapse Four workers were killed on Monday and another was left with life-threatening injuries after scaffolding collapsed at a major building site in the German city of Hamburg. The incident occurred…
News German police find gun and Taser in construction fraud investigation Three men working in the German construction industry have been jailed for a total of 14 years and one received a suspended sentence for defrauding the state out of tax…
Trends Getting to grips with unsafe cladding in New South Wales The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is attracting international attention for its approach to replacing flammable cladding on multi-unit residential buildings. Launched in March 2021 after the state…
News Six construction workers shot and killed in Pakistan Six workers were killed and two wounded during a gun attack in the province of Baluchistan in southwestern Pakistan. According to Associated Press, the eight were attacked over the weekend…
News Five killed by building collapse at Karachi site Four labourers and a pedestrian were killed and two people injured when the third floor of an under-construction building collapsed in Shah Faisal Colony in the city of Karachi, Pakistan.…
News 26 killed as railway bridge collapses in India 26 workers have been killed and two have been injured following the collapse of an under construction railway bridge in India’s north eastern Mizoram state. Reuters reports that between 28…
News 20 killed following collapse in Maharashtra Twenty construction workers have been killed and three injured by the collapse of girder installing machine at a road building project in the west Indian state of Maharashtra. The collapse…
News 11 construction workers killed as monsoon rain collapses building in Islamabad Eleven construction workers have been killed following heavy rains in Islamabad, Pakistan. A wall was damaged by the wind and rain, causing it to collapse onto workers tents at a…
News Two killed, six injured after Japan bridge girder fails A collapsing bridge girder has killed two construction workers and injured another six in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, 80km southwest of Tokyo. The accident occurred when a 65m-long girder, which was…
News Two workers have been killed while working in a trench at JFK Two construction workers have died after becoming trapped under rubble at JFK International Airport in New York. According to New York and New Jersey Port Authority, the two were “relocating…
News New York State’s construction death rate rises 9% A report from New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has found that across the state, the construction fatality rate increased from 10.2% to 11.1% per 100,000 workers…
News Turkey ‘rounding up contractors’ as critics slam lax regulation Authorities in Turkey have begun targeting contractors after last week’s catastrophic earthquakes destroyed some 25,000 buildings in southern Turkey and northeastern Syria, leading to the combined deaths of at least…
News Turkish, Syrian cities destroyed in violent earthquakes A series of major earthquakes and aftershocks have devastated multiple cities in the southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey and northwestern Syria starting in the early hours of 6 February, with…
News Eight construction workers dead after fire in Crimea At least eight workers have been killed following a fire at a temporary residence in the Crimean capital of Sevastopol. Reuters reports that local police blamed the fire on an…