A new engineering method could be the difference between a building surviving a failed support column and a chain reaction ...

Introduction"It should be built according to the drawings." When I was young, that was how I looked at construction sites.However, many structural failures do not occur at the moment the drawings are ...

A new technology has been developed that can rapidly predict city-scale structural damage even when portions of satellite imagery are obscured by clouds or smoke immediately after a disaster.

On June 24, 2021, a portion of Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida, near Miami Beach, collapsed around 1:30 am. It was one of the most deadly structural collapses in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction workers look up at the former Pfizer headquarters building in New York City, N.Y. on July 7, 2026, after the ...

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — A new finding in the deadly Surfside condo collapse that killed 98 people shows the building began to experience structural failures in early June 2021 before it collapsed later ...

In addition to Design World’s new Ethical Engineering column, we’re also debuting another column focused on engineering disasters or failures. Why disasters and why now? The short (perhaps simplistic) ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Engineers are on-site at the Rialto apartment complex to determine the cause of structural damage that forced the evacuation of more than 350 people last Thursday. The property ...