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Ford is removing Carroll Shelby’s name from Dearborn streets as it advances a 3.3 million-square-foot Ford World Headquarters project, slated for completion in 2029 and designed to house about 10,000–11,000 employees.
Shocking footage shows a seven-story parking garage under construction at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia collapsing after a precast roof segment failed, killing one worker and burying two others who remain missing and presumed dead; two more workers were hospitalized but released. OSHA will lead the investigation, the site is closed, and deconstruction of the wreckage is set to begin as officials continue to search for the missing workers and determine what happened.
One worker died and two others remain missing after a seven-story CHOP parking garage under construction partially collapsed in Grays Ferry; three people were rescued, the site is unstable, engineers will carefully deconstruct the structure, and the city’s L&I is investigating while CHOP cooperates.
A seven-level parking garage in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia, under construction, collapsed, injuring at least one person critically and trapping two others; rescuers are searching the rubble, using drones as investigators probe the cause.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military is building a massive complex beneath the White House ballroom, ahead of schedule, with the ballroom reportedly serving as a shed for the underground work. The privately funded project has seen its budget double from $200 million to $400 million as renovations expand, and Trump has floated additional plans such as renaming the Kennedy Center and proposing a grand arch in Washington.
Researchers show that seawater and carbon dioxide can be converted in a tabletop reactor into solid minerals (calcium carbonate and a magnesium-rich solid) that can form powders or grains, potentially replacing mined sand in concrete and, in some mixes, store more CO2 than the process emits (carbon-negative). If powered by clean energy and scaled up, near‑shore modular reactors could sequester CO2 at the source and reduce cement's climate impact, though durability and wear tests at larger scales are still needed.
The White House is seeking to build a 33,000-square-foot underground security screening center beneath Sherman Park to streamline visitor checks, with seven lanes and a target to open by July 2028, as part of a broader grounds overhaul. The plan, developed with the Secret Service and National Park Service, will be reviewed by the National Capital Planning Commission in April, and a separate proposal for a 90,000-square-foot building with a ballroom at the former East Wing site is also under consideration, while the Sherman Park monument would remain intact.
An executive order from the Trump administration aims to reduce federal regulatory barriers to housing by streamlining permitting, revising water, energy, and building-code requirements, issuing best-practice guidance to states and localities, and coordinating incentives (including Opportunity Zones and tax credits) to boost affordable single-family home construction while preserving agency authorities.
A giant steel pipe rising up to 13 metres protruded from the ground on a Osaka city highway during sewer construction, according to local authorities; video of the incident was not playable due to a technical error, and no injuries were reported.
A large underground steel pipe (27 meters long, 3.5 meters in diameter) rose about 13 meters from the ground at a construction site near Hankyu’s Osaka-Umeda Station in Osaka, likely part of connecting a sewer to a water storage pipe for rainwater overflow; no injuries were reported and traffic was briefly halted as investigators determine the cause.
New buyers of downtown LA's Oceanwide Plaza—often called the graffiti towers—must tackle graffiti removal first, with cleanup possibly costing hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars; experts describe chemical stripping for concrete or glass-bead blasting for paint on glass, plus significant challenges on 500-foot towers and safety planning, as the $470 million sale awaits final court approval.
Trump appointees are pushing for specifics on the White House ballroom project, requesting architectural models to evaluate its design and scale as construction moves forward.
A New York Times investigation tracks how American-born roofers disappeared as immigration reshaped the field: unions lost power in the 1980s, nonunion labor rose, and many immigrant workers—often undocumented—entered residential construction during housing booms, fueling labor shortages, lowering relative wages for some workers, and contributing to rising home prices and housing-affordability pressures.
A Fort Worth couple, Christopher and Raquelle Judge, pleaded guilty to defrauding about 40 families in North Texas by collecting nearly $4.8 million for custom home and renovation projects they never completed, using the money for personal expenses and lifestyle, leading to half-built houses and financial losses for victims.
Hillwood Development Corp. has begun constructing a nearly 221,000-square-foot industrial facility on 36 acres in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, with completion expected in late 2026, featuring high clear heights and spacious staging bays.