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BOSTON RECONNECTING As inconceivable as it may seem today, a wide swath of downtown Boston — including vibrant ethnic neighborhoods, historic pre-Revolutionary buildings, and a tangled but charming street pattern — was mowed down like weeds in the mid-1950s to make way for an elevated highway. This was decades before the Boston-as-perennial-boomtown that we've known recently. A master plan prepared in 1956 by I.M. Pei and Associates stated darkly: "Stagnation and resultant blight are the condition of the Boston peninsula."
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BASIC SAFETY RULES FOR CONSTRUCTION "This company has safety rules to keep you from getting hurt on the job. It is your responsibility to learn these rules and to follow them at all times." So opens a new construction-site rulebook. The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America has published an easy-to-read illustrated booklet to provide workers with a basic understanding of job-site safety. In addition to the pages shown here, it treats such topics as material handling, ladder safety, and trench safety.
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More Building and Construction Twin Towers Couldn't Sustain Attack — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0912Behavior of Twin Towers In Collapse Mystifies Experts — ENR, 2001.0911 Grimshaw Proposes Giant £300m Tower For The City — Architects' Journal, 2001.0911 'Old Town' Plan Will Link Waterfront, Core — National Post, 2001.0910 Nail-Pounding 101: Construction Goes To College — Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2001.0907 Lease First, Build Later The New Mantra — Portland Business Journal, 2001.0907 Builders say International Building Code will take some getting used to — Wichita Business Journal, 2001.0907 For Garages, A New Level Of Livability — Washington Post, 2001.0906 Radical Prada Boutique Plan Wins Approval — San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.0907 Habitat For Humanity Celebrates 25th Year, 100,000+ Houses — Building Online, 2001.0904 A Fine Old House vs. the Bulldozers — Business Week, 2001.0910 Edition Breaking 'the Code' Without Going Broke — Business Journal, 2001.0903 Frank Lloyd Wright's Wrongs Put Fallingwater At Risk — Seattle Times, 2001.0902 Arts Center Sure To Be Star — Business Courier, 2001.0831 Hospital Design Can Help Make The Bottom Line Better — Washington Business Journal, 2001.0831 Airport Prepares For Hotel Takeoff — Denver Business Journal, 2001.0831 Duty On Canadian Lumber May Raise Home Prices — Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2001.0831 Home Design Gets Less Formal, More Functional — Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2001.0831
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