Many hospital retrofits are aimed at increasing the supply of coronavirus patient ICU and airborne infection isolation rooms, to protect healthcare workers.
The state will temporarily reopen the 250-bed Newton Pavilion at Boston Medical Center, to help increase capacity for COVID-19 patients and others seeking health care in the city.
As shelter-in-place directives took effect across northern counties in California, contractors and local and state officials are trying to decipher the definition of “essential” in the unprecedented response to curtail COVID-19.
The White House has announced that President Trump intends to nominate J. Brett Blanton, a senior engineering manager with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, as the next Architect of the Capitol.
Advocates hope to see efforts like Marin County's Bay Area Low-Carbon Concrete Code—which would limit embodied carbon in both public and private projects—catch on around the globe.
An upper section of an 18-story hotel under construction in New Orleans partially collapsed on Saturday, October 12, killing at least two and injuring eighteen.
