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Roadbuilding
LA Metro reveals 40-year, $120 billion transportation plan
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ambitious plans for the city if a newly revealed plan passes in November. The LA Metro announced the plan March 18 and said it would send about $120 billion to transit projects and highway projects over the next 40 years. Measure R would pay for these projects by extending LA county’s current […]
March 22, 2016
Workforce
Worker killed in 53-story fall from Los Angeles hotel under construction
A construction worker was killed last week in Los Angeles after suffering a fall from 53 stories. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, 36-year-old Joseph Sabbatino, was in his second day on the job as an electrician at the Wilshire Grand, a $1.2-billion hotel and office building under construction, when he fell […]
March 21, 2016
Safety
5 construction workers die from falls in 4-week span
Five workers have died from falls on construction projects around the U.S. in the last month. According to a report from NBC Los Angeles, a worker in the Westlake district of the city fell 28 feet to his death Nov. 17. LA West Media identified the worker as Oswaldo Mineros Jr., reporting that the 20-year-old fell […]
December 16, 2015
Safety
Floor collapses during concrete pour in LA, injuring 7 workers
While working on a concrete pour at a jobsite in Los Angeles Wednesday evening, the floor the crew was standing on collapsed beneath them. According to a report from CBSLA, seven workers were injured in the collapse which sent them crashing to the first floor below. The site reports the structure appears to be residential. Miraculously, none […]
May 22, 2015
Business
At groundbreaking, California trades union head calls high-speed rail construction “greatest infrastructure project” in U.S. history
Despite years of controversy and wondering where the money to fund its construction would come from, ground was officially broken Tuesday on California’s first high-speed rail line in Fresno. Expected to be completed by 2029, trains on the $68 billion railroad will travel at speeds up to 200 miles per hour, spanning 520 miles from San Francisco […]
January 7, 2015
Business
Burning buildings, collapsing freeways: Is our lousy education system to blame for the recent uptick in construction accidents?
Lately there’s been a rash of fires, collapses and accidents at projects “under construction,” all over the country. Here are just three of the more spectacular examples. March, Boston:. A 33-story apartment building under construction pancakes in Boston when a load up top causes the support under it to buckle. April, Des Moines, Iowa: A three […]
May 9, 2014
Construction Equipment
LA construction crew breaks world record for largest continuous concrete pour
A crew in Los Angeles poured 21,200 cubic yards of concrete without stopping over a period of 18-1/2 hours to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest continuous concrete pour. The crew building the New Wilshire Grand, a skyscraper that will reach 1,110 feet into the air once it’s complete, started the pour […]
February 20, 2014
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