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Desk breaks aren’t enough to combat MSDs. FMJ asks Helen Beebe, UK Managing Director of AJ Products for her guide to establishing ergonomic workplace habits Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are driven largely by the rise in sedentary desk jobs, increased reliance on technology and the shift towards remote and hybrid working models. According to the HSE,…

If anyone was asked to think of where to find the best examples of an office, I doubt very many people would reply ‘Milan’ but that may just be the reason that this year’s BCO conference was a resounding success. With Milan and its layers of history, culture, design and the vital ‘caffè’, we are…

Like many U.S. cities — especially those in the Northeast — Baltimore faces a challenge that has been more than a century in the making. Many of its facilities are old and succumbing to the ravages of time, and more than a few of the structures are underused. Of course, the city still has to…

  The North Carolina Dept. of Transportation is continuing to press ahead with development of its part of a planned high-speed rail corridor connecting Raleigh, N.C., and Richmond, Va., even as nearly $1.1 billion in federal funding remains in limbo. Known as the S-Line, the collaboration between NCDOT and the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA)…

  Two construction workers died Wednesday when a crawler crane boom collapsed at a jobsite in Merrit Island, Fla. OSHA investigators were on the scene following the incident, but a cause of the collapse has not yet been determined. The crane boom came down during a reported period of high winds in the area. The…

More office space will be removed from the U.S. market this year than added to it for the first time since at least 2018 and likely longer, providing another indicator of the market’s stabilization and nascent recovery, according to a new report from CBRE. By the end of this year, 23.3 million square feet of…