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PHOTOS: Make-A-Wish makes 3-year-old boy a construction worker for a day

[imagebrowser id=102] There are lots of little boys who love construction equipment and pretend to be construction workers, but one little boy who is battling cancer was actually able to be one for a day. The Make-A-Wish Foundation partnered with the Greater Manchester (New Hampshire) Habitat for Humanity to make this possible for 3-year-old William […]

June 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

Burglars in Cleveland use stolen heavy equipment to smash into businesses

For the second time in the last two weeks, thieves in Cleveland have stolen heavy equipment from a construction site to smash their way into a local business. Early Monday morning, an excavator was used to rip into a market on the city’s East Side and last Tuesday a wheel loader was used to bring […]

May 20, 2014

Construction Equipment

Hotel construction unearths beer mugs, liquor bottles and a bar dating back to before the Revolutionary War

Archaeologists are excavating the construction site of a 22-story hotel on The Bowery in New York City, which has been occupied since the 1740s, in order to preserve any history that may be hiding in the soil. And recently they made a big discovery. According to a report from DNAInfo New York, Chrysalis Archaeology discovered hundreds […]

May 14, 2014

Business

Floor addition under construction collapses from top of mall in Minneapolis

The collapse of a third-floor addition under construction at a mall in Minneapolis to the sidewalk below resulted in no injuries Tuesday, but shut down several businesses and knocked out electricity in the neighborhood. On Monday, construction workers were installing trusses to support a wall. One of the trusses on the end of the wall […]

May 8, 2014

Safety

Collapse at Boston construction site injures 3 workers

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include the injury of a third worker in the accident. Two workers were hospitalized Thursday morning in Boston in the wake of a partial collapse of a 33-story residential building under construction. The workers’ injuries were said to be non-life threatening, but one of the workers did […]

March 20, 2014

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PHOTOS: Construction crew discovers ancient graveyard of whales, sloths and fish killed by algae

[imagebrowser id=44] Scientists have solved the mystery surrounding a mass graveyard of ancient sea life discovered by a Chilean highway construction crew more than three years ago. During the widening of the Pan-American Highway in northern Chile, road workers uncovered more than 40 fossilized skeletons preserved in sandstone. Most of the skeletons were that of baleen […]

March 18, 2014

Business

Coin toss decides bid winner for $4.4 million construction project in Louisiana

There are very few coin tosses with higher stakes than the one carried out in Gretna, Louisiana Wednesday night. The town is getting a new police station and last month accepted seven bids from construction companies looking to win the right to demolish the existing headquarters and build the new one. Problem was, for the […]

March 13, 2014

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Construction worker uncovers mammoth tusk from Ice Age (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

While excavating for plumbing trenches on the jobsite of a high-rise apartment complex in the Seattle, Washington neighborhood of south Union Lake, a construction worker uncovered what may be the greatest archaeological find in the city’s history. And he did it with just a shovel. Transit plumbing worker Joe Wells moved a pile of dirt […]

February 18, 2014

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After a day on the jobsite, construction worker drives around NYC until dawn feeding the homeless

Carlos Vargas has seen both sides to this land of opportunity. He has lovingly embraced both. Vargas immigrated to the United States from Yauco, Purto Rico more than 20 years ago looking for a better life, according to a report from the New York Daily Post. He found work in construction and gladly works long […]

February 17, 2014

Business

San Francisco subway construction causes a rat invasion

It’s not uncommon for a city to receive complaints about construction. Despite the knowledge that improvements are being made to infrastructure or a new building is join up, traffic backups and noise due to construction can quickly become annoyances after even a short period of time. But for San Francisco residents, it’s the rats. According […]

November 17, 2013

Business

Construction crew rescues live deer from basement of house it’s building

Construction crews find all kinds of things on, and often underneath, the jobsite. Suffice it to say, it’s not often that it gives them a fight on its way out of the ground. But that’s exactly what happened when a crew composed of members from Tim Halbrook Builders and Steve Fischer Construction found a live, 9-point […]

November 11, 2013

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Scissor lift battery explodes, causes evacuation of Ohio police HQ

What many thought could be a bomb or an attack on the downtown Columbus, Ohio police headquarters was found to be a battery for a scissor lift that exploded inside the building. According to The Columbus Dispatch, employees on the first and second floors of the building heard the explosion and phoned it in. The […]

September 25, 2013