DES PLAINES, Ill. — The American National Standards Institute has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers" standards addressing fall protection — the new ANSI/ASSE Z359.14-2012, Safety Requirements for Self-Retracting Devices for Personal Fall Arrest and Rescue Systems, and the revised ANSI/ASSE Z359.4-2012, Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Subsystems and Components. The standards are part of the Z359 Fall Protection Code. The new Z359.14 standard establishes requirements for the performance, design, qualification testing, markings and instructions, inspections, maintenance and storage, and removal from service of self-retracting devices, including self-retracting lanyards, self-retracting lanyards with integral rescue capability and self-retracting … Read more

BOSTON, Mass. — Tocci Building Companies announced Marlborough Hospital has broken ground on its new Cancer Pavilion. The facility is part of the UMass Memorial Health Care's Cancer Center of Excellence, and Tocci will partner with architect The S/L/A/M Collaborative (S/L/A/M). For the first time in Massachusetts, a healthcare project will be built using Integrated Project Delivery. Marlborough Hospital chose the team of Tocci and S/L/A/M for its experience using IPD, a contract form and design/construction process that fuses parties together in the spirit of ownership, collaboration and mutual responsibility for the project's success. The Cancer Pavilion will become the … Read more