Structural damage at Rialto apartment complex in Orange County forces evacuation of 350 people. Engineers investigate the ...

A parking garage collapse at Yosemite Street and Jefferson Avenue crushed two vehicles Monday afternoon, leaving at least one ...

Lessons Learned From Deadly Condo Collapse: Reshaping Industry to Prevent Future Tragedy While nothing can replace the lives lost in this historic tragedy, there are valuable lessons to be learned ...

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The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Four recent catastrophic building collapses and a near miss are raising concerns about ...

There are three basic needs of man: food, shelter and clothing. A building is another name for shelter and is therefore one of the basic needs of man. We construct buildings to provide shelter for man ...

Logansport Fire and the Logansport Police Department, along with the Cass County EMS, were sent to 1000 block of North Street Wednesday night to investigate the partial collapse of an apartment ...

Structural engineers, under the aegis of the Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers (NIStructE), have urged the government to implement laws and building codes that will stem building failures ...

NEW YORK ‒ On Monday, a seven-story tenement building in New York City partially collapsed, heaping a 12-foot mound of debris on the street and forcing over 170 people, including dozens of children, ...

A year after its new headquarters tower crumpled during an earthquake, the State Audit Office (SAO) has outlined four critical structural and construction failures that led to the collapse.The details ...

Crowds gather at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, as rescue crews assess the collapse of a multi-story prayer-hall building that failed during concrete placement.