Hong Kong’s Labour Department (LD) has launched a safety enforcement drive following a spate of construction site deaths and accidents. Starting tomorrow, 8 November, occupational safety officers will inspect worksites,…

Bechtel has identified seven factors leading to the deaths of three workers building phase 1 of the Port Arthur liquid natural gas terminal in Jefferson County, Texas on 29 April…

A six-storey building being refurbished as a four-star hotel collapsed yesterday in central Madrid, killing three construction workers and the project’s architect, Reuters reports. The site workers were identified as…

The president of one of Thailand’s biggest contractors, Italian-Thai Development (ITD), has been indicted along with 22 other suspects over the collapse in March of a Bangkok office tower under…

A court in Ireland last week fined Colas Contracting Limited €270,000 following the death of a worker on a paving project in 2020. Judge Ronan Munro of Tralee Circuit Court…

A Hong Kong contractor fighting to keep its licence to build in the special administrative region after a spate of site deaths has been kicked off its four remaining projects.…

Chinese contractor Aggressive Construction Engineering has appealed the dismissal of its appeal against the removal of its licence to operate in the region. This occurred in 2023, after a number…

The owner of a nightclub in the Dominican Republic whose roof collapsed during a concert in April, killing 236 people, was arrested yesterday and charged with involuntary homicide, The New…

A construction worker died in a gruesome incident at a construction site in central Florida on Wednesday, and a fellow worker has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. The men were…

The president of one of Thailand’s biggest construction groups has surrendered to police investigating the collapse of a high-rise under construction in Bangkok. The disaster, which took the lives of…

Two independent reports from human rights groups published today issue fresh warnings of thousands of preventable migrant construction-worker deaths in Saudi Arabia as it prepares for the 2034 World Cup.…

Three workers have been killed and two injured after scaffolding collapsed at the Bechtel Port Arthur Liquified Natural Gas project in Texas. A spokesperson from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office…

Agustin Escobar, Global CEO of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, died with his family yesterday in New York City when a sight-seeing helicopter they were in fell into the Hudson…

Two former Major League Baseball players and a provincial governor are among the rising toll of dead following the collapse of a nightclub roof in the Caribbean nation of the…

Thai prime minister Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra yesterday announced a thorough investigation into the approval, design, and materials involved in a 32-storey, under-construction office tower in Bangkok that disintegrated in Friday’s…

Three construction workers are dead and dozens are missing in the rubble of a collapsed high-rise building under construction in Bangkok. The disaster occurred around 1.40pm local time and followed…

A three-day rescue effort in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand has saved 46 construction workers who were stranded by a Himalayan avalanche. Eight workers were killed in the disaster,…

US developer CIM has confirmed that its high rise under construction in Atlanta, Georgia was the scene of a fatality last week, as police released more details of the incident…