Adhesive blamed in Boston Big Dig tunnel collapse
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U.S. transportation investigators on Tuesday blamed the fatal collapse in Boston's Big Dig tunnel last year on a ceiling adhesive that was not strong enough, and determined contractors and authorities probably could have taken steps to avert the disaster.
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All &quot;politics and divisions&quot; should be set aside so the deadly Big Dig highway tunnel complex can be fixed, a pastor said Saturday at a memorial for the woman who was crushed to death when concrete tunnel ceiling panels fell on her car.
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An epoxy company blamed for a deadly ceiling collapse inside one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels pleaded not guilty Wednesday to manslaughter.
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BOSTON -- When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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Massachusetts' attorney general will sue companies that worked on the state's troubled $15 billion "Big Dig" roadway project, alleging their negligence caused a ceiling panel to break loose and crush a woman to death this summer, his spokesman said on Monday.
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The Big Dig is riddled with leaks that are dumping millions of gallons of water into the $14.6 billion tunnel system, according to an engineer hired to investigate the cause of a massive leak in September.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston on   Wednesday said they had charged an electrical contractor who   had worked on the city's troubled "Big Dig" tunnel contract   with overbilling for work on the project.
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Boston&#39;s Big Dig, a new system of freeway tunnels beneath the city and its harbor, has started springing leaks, and Massachusetts officials say San Francisco&#39;s Bechtel Corp.
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A tunnel being dug so that Palestinians could smuggle material from Egypt into Gaza collapsed yesterday leaving at least five people dead.
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By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent | November 12, 2004. To Big Dig officials, the tunnels beneath downtown Boston recall the grandeur and ingenuity of the pyramids or the Parthenon.
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A fresh slab of wet concrete collapsed on the 24th floor of a high-rise construction site Friday, injuring 16 workers, including two who had to be extricated from the concrete by a rescue team, officials said.
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A large wall in a building under construction at Dubai airport collapsed Monday, killing more than eight people and injuring many more, a contractor said.
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The ceiling collapsed in one of Bostonâs Big Dig tunnels a year ago, killing a woman, because builders used the wrong epoxy, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
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Commuters got their first glimpse Monday of what to expect for at least the next couple of months as investigators and construction crews work on identifying and repairing problems in the tunnels of the city&#039;s Big Dig highway system.
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Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday it would take months to fix problems in the entire Big Dig highway system and reopen the roads, and another ramp was closed to traffic because of what he called a &quot;systemic failure.&quot;
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Boston's Big Dig crisis deepened Thursday when Gov. Mitt Romney shut down the eastbound lanes of a major highway tunnel after two problem bolts were discovered in the ceiling.
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A group of state, federal, and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff engineers issued a confidential report in 1997 which concluded that miles of Big Dig tunnel walls were waterproofed with products