In a recently published opinion, the Appellate Division, Second Department, upheld a Suffolk County Supreme Court decision ...

The City Council on Wednesday passed a series of bills to limit how long scaffolding can stay up and to introduce new, more ...

The New York City Council unanimously passed a new set of bills that would shorten the duration of sidewalk sheds permits and ...

Raising the height of sheds to 12 feet, from eight feet, and requiring brighter lighting. Powers, a Democrat from Manhattan, called current scaffolding rules “archaic.” He said the changes ...

A permit is needed for any scaffolding or hoarding that needs to be placed on the highway, it does not control the standard in which the scaffold or hoarding is put up, this remains the responsibility ...

The GalaFlex Lite scaffold. [Image courtesy of BD] BD (NYSE: BDX) + announced today that investigators treated the first patient in a study of its GalaFlex Lite scaffold system. The FDA ...

This means China's national standard for ceiling height, which has been in place for many years, will change. Better living experience Li Yujia, chief researcher at the Shenzhen Real Estate ...

recently moved from a 2.7-meter-ceiling height apartment to a 3-meter one. She noted that lower ceilings feel depressing, while excessively high ones feel too empty, and the 3-meter standard ...

While an increase in height may seem like a minor effect, long-term exposure to microgravity takes a serious toll on the human body. Some of the major physiological changes astronauts experience ...

The sight of Hong Kong’s high-rises encased in bamboo scaffolding may soon become ... Metal scaffolds have become standard in mainland China and other advanced economies, and will be used ...

Officers attended and were engaging with the man before he fell from a height onto a railway line ... The BTP told the Standard its officers were called by Metropolitan Police to Colindale ...