Construction and demolition projects in Boston will be required to include more safety training under a new ordinance signed Thursday by Mayor Michelle Wu that gives city inspectors additional enforcement powers.
The second construction worker in just over two months was killed on a Boston job site Thursday morning.
Collapses have now rocked high-profile Boston construction projects twice in 40 days. If this doesn’t make you either angry or scared the same thing could happen on your project, you have no business being in development.
Massachusetts’ biggest construction company is halting all of its work in Boston through Friday following a partial building collapse in South Boston that injured three workers.
Three construction workers were taken to the hospital following a collapse at the former Boston Edison power plant property Wednesday afternoon.
Partial demolition of Boston’s Government Center Garage is suspended following a weekend’s accident that killed a 51-year-old construction worker.
More than a few contractors have likely been breathing a sigh of relief after plans to dramatically boost the fines OSHA can dole out for safety violations has landed in legislative limbo.
Disaster struck a Brighton building site on a cold day in January 1971 when around two-thirds of the floors on a 16-story luxury condominium tower under construction pancaked onto one another and fell to the ground.
The umbrella group for the state’s largest construction unions flagged concerns that the Baker administration’s phased reopening plan does not do enough to ensure workers have access to personal protective equipment and safe worksites.
As COVD-19 infection rates continue to wane in Massachusetts, the state’s residential construction trade group has debuted a set of pandemic-specific safety standards for homebuilders and remodelers throughout the state.
Two leading Democrats criticized Gov. Charlie Baker’s reopening plan Tuesday with one calling it “too soon” and the other saying aspects left him uncomfortable.
Large-scale construction sites in Boston began reawakening this week but with new rules that could delay project completions in the first phase of Gov. Charlie Baker’s reopening plan for the Massachusetts economy.
The state’s council of building trades unions is making COVID-19 safety advice available in Spanish as many health care and housing-related construction sites continue to operate outside of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Watertown.
The head of the state’s largest building trades union has cleared its 13,000 members to return to job sites statewide starting today.
Gov. Charlie Baker has stuck by his guns, with state officials issuing beefed up social distancing and cleaning protocols they argue will allow construction workers to hammer away safely. However, this is a mistake, and potentially a very big one at that.
A second large building trades union has directed its members to stop working out of fear of spreading the coronavirus at construction sites.
The North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters on Thursday evening directed all of its members to stop working on construction sites in Massachusetts from April 6 “until it is safe to do so.”
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh made a tough, but ultimately correct, call last week to hold firm on the city’s coronavirus construction freeze.
A Gilbane Building Co. employee since he joined the company straight out of college in 1993, Mike O’Brien has overseen notable building projects including work on Fenway Park.
Say hello to Vinnie, an emerging soothsayer star of the construction industry. Arriving as soon as this fall, he will be able to predict when construction industry workers are about to engage in particularly risky behavior that may lead to serious work site injuries.
