Strategies for Designing and Building a Multigenerational House

Jay Endelman, President of Guild Craft Inc., provides strategies for building multigenerational housing.

Las Vegas Home Builders Share Predictions for 2014 Spring Home Sales

Geoff Gorman of Harmony Homes and David Straub of Toll Brothers share their predictions for the 2014 spring home selling season in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Aussie Construction Workers Startle Public with Empowering Statements

Sponsored by Snickers, Australian builders shouted out empowering statements to unsuspecting people walking by a construction site.

Construction Worker Rescued By Firefighters

Firefighters pulled a construction worker from a ledge of a burning building in Houston, Texas, just before the upper story collapsed.

Panama Canal Expansion Project: Third Set of Locks

MWH President and CEO Alan Krause discuss the Panama Canal expansion project, Third Set of Locks, which they claim is one of the largest and most significant civil engineering projects in the last century.

Building Partial Collapse Injures Workers

WCVB News reports that two workers were injured when seven floors collapsed in a building under construction in Boston, Massachusetts.

Construction Site Shut Down after Native American Burial Site Uncovered

A central Texas construction site was shut down after human remains were discovered.

Engineer allegedly finds Construction Defects after Briarwood Elementary Collapse

KOCO 5 News interviews local engineer who analyzed the Briarwood Elementary school structure after it collapsed during the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma tornado.

Construction of the World’s First “Algae-Powered” Building

In Hamburg, Germany, a building has been powered by algae.

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