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The construction industry in California wants to hire more women to meet a shortage of skilled workers.But access to child care is keeping many of these women from joining the trades.Reporter: Daisy Nguyen, KQED
State Sues Sacramento County City Over Housing Policies
The state is suing the city of Elk Grove for allegedly using discriminatory housing practices to deny a proposed affordable housing project.

This week on Dezeen, we launched our latest series called Timber Revolution, which will investigate the potential of mass timber.Over the next month, we will publish a series of interviews, opinions and case studies that will question whether mass timber can break steel and concrete's hold over the construction industry.

America's Cup Building or the "Veles e Vents" building in Valencia, Spain, was completed in 11 months to host the America's Cup sailing competition in 2007.Christian Richters/The Pritzker Architecture Prize Sir David Chipperfield is the latest winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prestigious award that has gone in the past to the likes of Frank Gehry, Luis Barragan, Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha Hadid.

A grandmother in Jos, Nigeria goes from breaking rocks for a living to rocking social media with her song.Hamsatu Izang sings out as she hammers rocks into small gravel pieces for the construction industry.Singing brings her joy and peace, she says, amid this hard manual labour.But when a local music producer hears her song, her life takes a surprising turn and a whole new world opens up.

Six days after officials say a noose was found at the Obama Presidential Center worksite on the South Side, the construction firm overseeing the project said work has restarted with "additional safety and security measures" in place."We will continue to provide assistance to the authorities regarding the ongoing investigation to identify the individual or individuals responsible for this horrific act," Lakeside Alliance, the construction team building the center, said in a news release Wednesday.

A construction company has been fined 550,000 over the foreseeable and avoidable death of a worker who was impaled on metal piping, according to the Crown Office.Matthew Mason, 20, was working at Bearsden train station in East Dunbartonshire to install a PA system when he fell to his death.The worker was attempting to free cabling which had become stuck when he fell backwards from a step ladder and was impaled on a section of piping being used as the handle on a cable drum.

David Beckham, MPs and other dignitaries travelling to Qatar for the World Cup should recognise reforms made by the hosts but press for them to be continued, according to a former cabinet minister.Conservative MP Alun Cairns said there needs to be a collective effort to push for progress on workers' rights and human rights to last beyond the four-week tournament.

The council that owned Grenfell Tower has apologised unreservedly for the ways in which it failed the residents of the high-rise building, as it stressed that the current national fire and building safety system was too broken to be fixed by minor changes.A devastating fire at the west London tower block in June 2017 claimed 72 lives.

As more women enter skilled construction trades in Ontario, some say sexism and discrimination still play an exceptionally large role in how they are treated on job sites.Women only represent five per cent of the construction industry in Canada, and while there has been a push to get typically underrepresented groups into skilled trades, some of those workers say stereotypes persist throughout the sector.

Ontario will allow students, starting in Grade 11, to transition to full-time apprenticeship programs while still earning a high school diploma, the government said Wednesday.The move is part of a wider push to address immense labour shortages as the province looks to build some 1.5 million new homes by 2031, Labour Minister Monte McNaughton said at a news conference in Pickering.

A radiographic camera containing radioactive material has gone missing in Houston, Texas, officials said Saturday.The 53-pound camera which is commonly used in the construction industry went missing on March 9 and was last seen on Little York Road in Houston, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a news release.

The delay to part of the HS2 high-speed rail line will increase costs in the long term, the rail and construction industry has said.On Thursday, the government announced a two-year delay to the Birmingham to Crewe leg, blaming soaring costs.The transport secretary said he was "committed" to the line linking London, the Midlands and the North of England.

Construction waste has long been a bane of ecologically minded architects.So a trio of designers zeroed in on what they felt was a particularly egregious example: the architectural mock-up.Created before construction starts on a large real estate development, a mock-up is a one- to three-story model of a facade, often including windows, part of a roof and other features.

Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs in January, blowing past expectations for the second month in a row.Statistics Canada reported Friday that most of the jobs more than 120,000 were of the full-time variety.Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs last month, Statistics Canada reported Friday.(Anis Heydari/CBC) The gains come on the heels of an initial report of more than 100,000 jobs in December, a report that the data agency later revised down to just 69,000.

The sale of the Washington Commanders is an ever-evolving beast with stories coming out almost daily that can seem conflicting.Dan Snyder has been known to use certain media outlets in New York to get his message out, and that seems to be happening again with this sale.The range of "bids" placed on the team started with reports from Forbes that there were several well north of $7 billion.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Travis Perkins has revealed plans to train 10,000 apprentices by 2030.The building materials firm said it hopes the target will help address a critical industry skills gap and develop skills needed to help deliver new homes and infrastructure.

Lebanese designer Roula Salamoun didn't need to look any further than nature's own organic processes to create the Archipelago seats and Strata tables.Taking cues from the natural world, the furniture pulls elements from insular landscapes and topographical studies, inviting users to come closer and explore the details.

A typical morning at the Schnitzler household starts with David and Allison feeding their 17-month-old Winston.Allison, 33, and David, 32, play with Winston as they both get ready to go to work.Allison heads out the door  to her family medical practice  and David, an insurance underwriter, starts his day as an at-home dad.