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Amazon construction site reopens after eighth noose leads to second shutdown in two weeks Taylor Telford, The Washington Post May 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Work was suspended for the second time in as many weeks after another noose - the eighth in a month - was discovered at an Amazon warehouse under construction in northern Connecticut. The noose was found at the Windsor site on Wednesday, halting operations one day after work had resumed from an earlier shutdown. The discovery occurred a...

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Amazon suspends work on construction site after seventh noose is found Taylor Telford, The Washington Post May 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The exterior of an Amazon buildingJOHANNES EISELE /AFP via Getty Images Amazon has suspended work on a fulfillment center in Windsor, Conn., after numerous nooses were found at the construction site in the past month, company officials and investigators say. The site will remain closed until security measures have been implemented, Amazon told The Washing...

View Comments Its now 918 days behind schedule, but the contractor working on the much-criticized Interstate 83 Mount Rose makeover says its progressing "as expeditiously as possible." Tutor Perini, the parent company of Cherry Hill Construction of Jessup, Md., issued a statement Tuesday in response to recent news media reports about the reconstruction of the interchange, which has become the butt of jokes for many in the region. In the statement, the contractor says the state Department of Tra...

Indiana highway renovation on schedule despite challenges The heavily traveled I-65/I-70 interchange project involves rebuilding more than 50 bridge structures and associated roadway. Published May 13, 2021 Permission granted by Superior Construction The nearly 50-year-old I-65/I-70 North Split interchange in downtown Indianapolis is undergoing a $320 million renovation led by Superior Construction Co. Mohammed H. Siddiqi �...

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Dive Brief: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy varies widely by occupation, and construction workers are the most hesitant to get vaccinated, according to a study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Nearly half (46.4%) of those employed in the construction/extraction occupation category that responded to the survey said they would probably or definitely choose not to get vaccinated if offered a COVID-19 vaccine. Slightly fewer workers (42.6%) in the installa...

Published May 4, 2021 Permission granted by Barbara Res This article is one in a series of conversations with women leaders in the construction industry. Click here for last months conversation. When Barbara Res began her career as an engineer in 1971, she was sometimes barred from entering construction sites because of her gender. Barbara Res   As one of only a handful of women in the field at the time, Res said she endured intimidatio...

Dive Brief: A noose and other ropes were found last week at the construction site of an Amazon fulfillment center in Windsor, Connecticut, adding to a wave of racist incidents at commercial jobsites across North America reported in the last year. A site supervisor reported the discovery of a hangmans noose suspended from a steel beam on the second floor of the Amazon site April 27, according to a news release from the Windsor Police Department emailed to Construction Dive. On April 29, five ad...

CHARLOTTE – Two long-time investors, Eldridge and JE Dunn, have led a $190 million strategic investment and bonding support round to fuel the expansion and growth of Prescient, a digital design company and advanced architectural software company that focuses in providing technology solutions for the multifamily industry. “Prescient has demonstrated the benefits of its unique proprietary platform over the last eight years, which has provided our customers with an ideal solution to build fast...