NFPA 800 to Redefine Lithium-Ion Battery Safety as Construction Industry Faces Rising Fire Risk

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The imminent release of the National Fire Protection Association’s new Battery Safety Code, NFPA 800, underscores the growing fire risk associated with lithium-ion batteries across the construction and infrastructure sectors, according to RAMTECH, a temporary fire detection and site safety solutions company. NFPA 800 is the first full-lifecycle standard for battery safety, covering manufacturing, transport, installation, operation, emergency response and end-of-life management. The code – which is expected to be published on a provisional basis shortly – follows an accelerated development process driven by the rapid expansion of lithium-ion technologies across construction, energy and industrial sectors. When compromised by damage […]

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Contract Awarded for Second Building at New Reims Hospital

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The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims has awarded VINCI Construction with the contract to build the second building in the New Reims Hospital complex in France. The works contract is worth a total €210 million, €157 million of which will go to VINCI Construction. The project execution has been entrusted to a consortium led by Pargade Architectes. The works are scheduled to last 45 months, during which the hospital must remain in ordinary working order, and primarily involves the construction of a 58,000-square-meter building spanning seven floors that will accommodate 498 beds, reception and diagnosis areas, high-tech medical platforms, an […]

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Joint Venture Contracted to Build Data Center for NTT in Berlin

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HOCHTIEF and Turner (through its subsidiary Dornan) have been awarded a contract by NTT Global Data Centers to build a data center in Berlin, Germany. The contract, valued at several hundred million euros, involves the construction of a three-story 36 MW data center and a four-story office building. The scope includes all electrical and mechanical engineering work and the implementation of advanced safety and management systems. Delivered by the integrated joint-venture team, construction begins soon, with the first data halls set to be handed over in 2028. Full completion is targeted for 2029.

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Sustainability’s Missing Dimension: Time

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A Case for Measuring Sustainability in Decades, Not in Moments By Thomas L. Ketron I’ve spent more than 20 years around prefabricated concrete building systems — first on the manufacturing side, now working for the broader industry on sustainability initiatives. In that time, I’ve come to believe sustainability conversations are missing a dimension. Today’s dominant framing measures a structure’s environmental performance at a single moment: embodied carbon of the completed project. It’s an important number, but it’s also the easiest one to calculate, and that has let it stand in for the whole conversation. What’s missing is time — how […]

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Trillium Health Partners Marks Major Milestone for Mississauga’s Future Hospital

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Trillium Health Partners and PCL Construction has reached a major construction milestone in building The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital and Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children with concrete pouring officially underway. It is one of the largest and most digitally connected hospital redevelopment projects in Canada. This milestone was marked with a ceremonial coin toss with government, donors and Team THP as part of a construction tradition symbolizing good luck, followed by crews pouring the coins into the foundation for the future hospital. One year after breaking ground, this progress marks an important step forward on a once-in-a-generation redevelopment […]

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