Tag: boston

November 1, 2023

The ordinance gives ISD the enforcement capacity to now issue violations, stop work, revoke permits and impose fines up to $300 on permit holders, developers, general contractors, construction managers and subcontractors found to be in non-compliance with the ordinance. Along […]

November 14, 2022

Suffolk Construction and a subcontractor face a combined $691,000 in proposed federal safety penalties stemming from a wall collapse during demolition work on a shuttered power plant in South Boston that left a trio of workers injured, one seriously. The […]

August 23, 2022

MWBE goals are often included on public projects at the federal, state and city level, and Boston highlighted the diversity plan requirements it already has for jobs built on its public land. But the new measure asks for those goals […]

May 4, 2022

The collapse of a catwalk in a defunct, 124-year-old power plant building in Boston on May 4 injured three workers in the latest in a spate of serious construction accidents in the city and its environs. Two workers were immediately […]

February 16, 2022

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the employer involved in a February 2021 double fatality at a downtown Boston worksite and his successor company again for failing to provide employees with essential and required […]

December 10, 2021

A Massachusetts district attorney indicted Atlantic Coast Utilities, along with its owner, Laurence Moloney, and an employee, Konstantinos Kollias, for perjury on Nov. 30. The Wayland, Massachusetts-based contractor allegedly lied on Mattocks-Higgins Affidavits of Workplace Safety, according to a press […]

August 19, 2021

Federal workplace safety regulators on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, proposed $1.3 million in penalties for the construction company that employed two men who died when they were struck by a dump truck and pushed into a 9-foot (2.75-meter) deep trench […]

April 22, 2021

Construction of the deck over the heavily traveled section of Interstate 90 known as the Massachusetts Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue will be the largest air rights structure built in Boston since Copley Place in 1980, the release […]

June 24, 2020

Boston has completed the final phase of reopening construction in the city, which was one of the most vibrant on the East Coast before the coronavirus shutdown. After initially limiting construction to essential projects like new hospital buildings and housing, […]

April 28, 2020

Temperature checks at the jobsite gate and portable toilets equipped with hot water are poised to become regular features at Boston construction sites going forward as city officials put into action new safety rules in the wake of the deadly […]

March 17, 2020

The city will reassess the situation after the two-week span, Walsh said, adding that shutting down work sites was a difficult decision to make. “Construction is the core of our economy,” he said. Walsh’s announcement calls into question whether other […]

March 16, 2020

In the middle of a building boom, Boston officials are shutting down all construction in the city over mounting concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. Starting March 17, contractors and builders across the city will be required to shut […]

January 24, 2019

This is the second $1 billion expansion for a Boston hospital announced in the last few years. The $1.2 billion Boston Children’s Hospital expansion, which is underway now, had to overcome opposition from some groups that were concerned that the […]

June 27, 2018

Light rail projects such as the Green Line extension are intended to reduce congestion and make cities more livable, as well as provide commuters with better access to jobs and services that are sometimes out of reach if they don’t […]

June 26, 2018

Boston has enacted new rules to help buildings withstand climate change. The Boston Planning & Development Agency approved the new rules recently with the aims of helping to minimize flooding, keep the lights on in more buildings during power outages, […]

May 26, 2017

In the face of unprecedented fiscal belt tightening, Massachusetts public colleges and universities have received a directive to repair buildings constructed four or more decades ago rather than investing in lucrative expansions. This was part of Massachusetts Education Secretary Jim […]