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ORMOND BEACH — Workers are preparing a Florida hospital for demolition more than a year after it was destroyed by Hurricane Irma. Florida Hospital Oceanside spokeswoman Lindsay Cashio told The Daytona Beach News-Journal that preparations have begun but the demolition won’t be complete until summer. The hospital on Florida’s Atlantic Coast sustained wind and water […]
The Historic District Commission has approved demolition of a 68-year-old building on West Elizabeth Street to make way for Chemical Bank’s new downtown Detroit headquarters high-rise. Plan includes 185,000 square feet of office, 308 parking spaces, 7,500 square feet of retail Kirk Pinho/Crain’s Detroit Business The demolition of the building at 25 W. Elizabeth St. […]
Ten men were digging out a rowhouse-size hole Friday morning in North Philadelphia when the building next door collapsed, momentarily trapping two of them under rock and rubble, authorities said. The two unidentified injured workmen were taken to Hahnemann University Hospital, where their conditions were not immediately available. They had been preparing the foundation for […]
Detroit — Controversial meetings between city officials and specific contractors to discuss federally funded demolition work before public bidding didn’t violate written rules, but they weren’t transparent and gave the impression of “preferential treatment,” an independent investigation has ruled. The findings from an investigation of Detroit’s Office of the Inspector General, which spanned more than […]
A Missouri demolition company has been cited by federal safety regulators for failing to provide fall protection after two employees suffered fatal injuries at a demolition site in St. Louis. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited World Wrecking and Scrap Salvage Services Inc. and imposed penalties of $23,280. OSHA […]
Demolition of Hanford’s highly contaminated Plutonium Finishing Plant will not restart this month as expected. So far Hanford regulators have approved the Department of Energy only to load up and haul away contaminated rubble at the plant after a spread of radioactive contamination halted high hazard work at the plant in December 2017. All involved […]
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson formally returned the East St. Louis Housing Authority to local control in 2017. By McClatchy New construction, renovations and demolition are among $10.9 million in planned work on public housing following a critical few years for East St. Louis Housing Authority. Ben Carson, head of the U.S. […]
Visitors to the Seattle waterfront will hear the crunch of breaking concrete this February, while demolition equipment pivots through clouds of dust and mist, flexing spiked jaws that will munch the six-story-high columns and slice through steel Rebar. Briefings on Alaskan Way Viaduct demolition Three neighborhood briefings by WSDOT and Kiewit are scheduled: Tuesday: 5 […]
Sheet metal and concrete crumbled this week as a nearly yearlong demolition began of the former General Motors plant near Newport DE. It is the first significant sign of life in years at the long-shuttered facility on Boxwood Road, stirring hope that the 142-acre property could again become an anchor for Delaware jobs – even […]
A series of indictments have been handed down that allege illegal dumping involving a prominent Dayton-area businessman.Steve R. Rauch Inc. President Steve R. Rauch is being charged in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court with a number of felonies. One of his managers and two of his businesses are also charged in the indictments. The indictment […]