Source: https://vtdigger.org/, June 21, 2024 By: Emma Malinak Hundreds of gallons of chemical foam used to fight fires have spilled out of the Army Aviation Support Facility and into the South Burlington wastewater treatment system, according to Vermont National Guard officials. Col. Jacob Roy of the Vermont National Guard said work is underway to contain […]

Source: https://www.constructionrisk.com/, May 31, 2024 By: Kent Holland General Contractor for a condo building settled the project developer’s claim against it and then filed suit against its subcontractor/engineer’s insurance agent based on the agent’s misrepresentation on a certificate of insurance and failure to procure additional insured coverage for the GC.   When retaining the engineer to […]

Source: https://watercollaborativedelivery.org/, June 11, 2024 By: Aaron Tomita The first step in a successful progressive design-build (PDB) project is to focus on building a unified team. In traditional design-bid-build projects, the owner, engineer, and contractor often work individually, each driven by their own goals and expectations. While this approach can work for traditional hard-bid projects, […]

Source: https://www.wearegreenbay.com/, June 19, 2024 By: Indiana Schilz, Paul Steeno At around 11 Tuesday night, authorities in Fond du Lac lifted a shelter-in-place recommendation for several residents after a chemical spill at a manufacturing plant. Local 5 News was the only local station on scene when Fond du Lac firefighters wrapped head to toe in […]

Source: https://mynbc15.com/, June 19, 2024 By: Andrea Ramey On May 13th, images of an orange cloud in Creola emerged as the community was told to shelter in place due to a nitric acid spill. Dozens of people say they are still dealing with injuries caused by that chemical. An attorney, who says he represents 80 people, […]

Source: https://www.middletownpress.com/, June 14, 2024 By: Cassandra Day The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has revised portions of its decades-long project to address widespread soil and groundwater contamination at the Durham Meadows Superfund Site. The decades-long federal project centers on two manufacturing facilities in town. Volatile organic compounds were detected in residential, commercial and school water supply wells in […]

Source: https://www.oregonlive.com/, June 14, 2024 By: Andrew Miller A new lawsuit blames the city of Astoria and several construction and engineering companies for the dramatic collapse of the Buoy Beer brewery on the Astoria waterfront in 2022. The lawsuit alleges that the city and three private companies — Stricker Engineering, Rickenbach Construction and Columbia Dockworks — ignored […]

Source: https://www.tampabay.com/, June 12, 2024 By: Rebecca Liebson The future of a 42-story condominium in downtown St. Petersburg could be in jeopardy due to a legal challenge from a neighbor who wants the developer to halt construction. An LLC tied to Tampa investment firm Third Lake Partners filed suit against developer Kolter Urban in Pinellas […]

Source: https://www.statejournal.com/, June 12, 2024 By: John Raby Classes at a small West Virginia school will be relocated this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra R. Porter announced the move Tuesday for students, faculty and staff at Paden City High […]

Source: https://www.enr.com/ By: Annemarie Mannion An ironworker who fell 100 ft from a scaffold at an $815-million cancer center under construction at the University of Chicago Medical Center has filed a lawsuit against Turner Construction Co. and scaffold provider Adjustable Forms. Inc. Jeffrey A. Spyrka, 36, a union ironworker and member of Local 1, who […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding the U.S. Air Force and Arizona National Guard take action as concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” are increasing in the groundwater in a historically contaminated area on Tucson’s south side. The EPA found the pollution came from the nearby military properties and ordered them to clean up the […]

Source: https://www.technologynetworks.com/, June 11, 2024 By: Nicholas Gaunt, PhD You might be forgiven for thinking soil is just dirt beneath our feet. Certainly, this writer vastly misjudged its importance to life as we know it. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that soil could be the unsung hero of our planet, quietly working behind the scenes to […]