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Elizabeth Taurasi

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Design News' Executive Editor Elizabeth Taurasi is an award-winning journalist who spent the previous decade in the trenches of the newspaper business. She's been with Design News since January 2006.

Title: Executive Editor, Design News

Email: elizabeth.taurasi@reedbusiness.com

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$28 Million Settlement Reached in Death of Woman Killed in Big Dig Collapse

Read more on the Big Dig materials failure and see appalling aftermath photos and diagrams at Design News’ Big Dig coverage page . The family of a woman killed two years ago when the car she was riding in was crushed as a portion of a ceiling collapsed inside a Big Dig tunnel settled a wrongful death suit for more than $28 million last night. In July 2006, 39-year-old Milena... More

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New Report on U.S. Bridges Released as I-35 Bridge Collapse Anniversary Approaches

Nearly one year to the date of last year’s I-35 Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis , a report released yesterday says at least one in four U.S. bridges needs repairs and at least $140 billion is needed to make them. According to the report, 152,000 of the country’s 600,000 bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. The report says the five main problems... More

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Firm Recommends Installing 900 New Support Anchors in Big Dig Tunnel

The Boston Globe is reporting today that an engineering firm is recommending the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority install about 900 new support anchors in the Ted Williams Tunnel. This is the same firm that was hired to inspect all Boston Big Dig tunnels following the July 2006 Boston Big Dig tunnel collapse that killed a 38-year-old woman when the car she was riding in was crushed by... More

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Criminal Charges Avoided: Big Dig Contractors' Settlement Tops $458 Million

The firms responsible for designing and managing Boston’s Big Dig project reached a $458 million settlement with state and federal officials today. The settlement will allow these companies to avoid criminal charges in the 2006 fatal tunnel collapse and any civil liabilities with infrastructure problems. The settlement and terms were announced this afternoon at a press conference with... More

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Firms Expected to Reach $450 Million Settlement in Big Dig Disaster

Today could be the day the firms responsible for managing and designing Boston’s Big Dig will reach a settlement with Boston authorities. The settlement is said to be about $450 million.   The settlement is part of several legal battles over the Big Dig project, which not only claimed the life of a 38-year-old woman in 2006 when a portion of the ceiling collapsed and crushed... More
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