Jack Buehrer

New York City construction giant Bovis Lend Lease, already under scrutiny after two firefighters’ deaths last summer in a Ground Zero demolition project it was managing, now faces new questions following the January 14 death of a concrete subcontractor’s laborer in a 42-story fall from another lower Manhattan high-rise project that it manages. Photo © Nancy Soulliard / ENR Concrete formwork collapsed at the Trump SoHo project in lower Manhattan, killing one construction worker. Related Links: Rushed Work Blamed for Death at Trump SoHo Legal Loophole Trumps Good Zoning in SoHo Work was halted at the Trump SoHo site, being

The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is expected to send inspectors to the recently completed New York Times headquarters building today to determine what caused seven windows in the Renzo Piano and FXFowle-designed tower to crack on Wednesday afternoon. The windows were located on the building’s 22nd, 10th, and sixth floors of the building, according to the DOB. Two of the 52-story tower’s signature ceramic rods on the exterior of the 40th and 38th floors were also damaged. “Our engineers believe (Wednesday’s) high winds were a contributing factor (to the damage),” says DOB spokesperson Kate Lindquist. “But they