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Crane, rigging and specialized transport industries have offered aid in the wake of the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Milton and Helene
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What can be done to solve the global cladding crisis?
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Bronx firm has won $132 million contract to protect Staten Island from flooding
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Some of the world’s most ambitious flood prevention measures under construction
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How a global warming trend is helping winter construction activity
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Nearly half (45%) of China’s urban land is subsiding, threatening its wave of urbanisation.
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What challenges face Turkey’s construction industry a year after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake?
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What has happened to plans to refurbish the historic Palace of Westminster?
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Deadly catastrophe leads to opportunity for engineers to do more to protect the world’s aging bridges
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Funding remains elusive and questions on effectiveness linger for the Coastal Texas Project
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US-based contractor will finish up at Alaska-based National Park
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Company’s modular build in Florida wins two global awards
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Climate change – and the problems associated with it – is leading to a new age of canal building around the world.
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Lava barriers worked to protect the Icelandic town of Grindavík from yesterday’s first volcanic eruption - but not a second
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After an 800 year hiatus, volcanos have started erupting on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. Construction teams are working round the clock to build protective barriers in order to save the country’s main power plant from being overcome by lava.
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41 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas
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A rescue effort is underway in India after 40 construction workers were trapped by a tunnel collapse in India.
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Engineering company Aecom has paid US$11.8 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA) for the replacement of educational facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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How the US Army Corps of Engineers plans to protect parishes near New Orleans from hurricane and storm damage with a $3.7 billion programme of construction works.
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15-storey structures taken down in a simultaneous explosive event