Aug 31, 2017
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tunnel-boring outfit, The Boring Company, has won permission from the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, CA, to dig a tunnel nearly 2 miles long and up to 44 feet deep under city streets, according to Curbed Los Angeles. The project must still get permitting from the state labor and transportation debartments. […]
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Aug 25, 2017
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After a few legal fits and starts, as well as extra time for review and input, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new silica standard for construction is scheduled to go into effect about a month from now, on Sept. 23. What that means is contractors who engage in activities that create silica dust — […]
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Aug 10, 2017
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California construction worker Colin Blevin says he almost called in sick on the morning he ended up helping save a missing baby from the child’s accused abductor. Colin Blevin (left)Bolin Blevin “My hip was hurting real bad,” Blevin tells PEOPLE. “But I needed to get work done.” So to work he went on Monday — […]
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Aug 03, 2017
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CU boulder researchers demonstrating their newly engineered material. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Colorado at Boulder A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It […]
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