The Nairobi City County Government claims the collapse of a building in Karen was caused by structural failure linked to poor ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

At the construction site where a building collapsed Wednesday near the Boise Airport, wreckage shows twisted girders with a crane in the center. Three people died at the scene and nine others were ...

As we approach the three-year anniversary of the tragic collapse of Champlain Towers South, we may finally have answers as to the exact cause. The court-appointed firm investigating the tragedy ...

Catastrophic failures resulting from relatively small triggers, such as the 1995 truck-bomb attack on the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, focused attention on disproportionate collapse and led to ...

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One way to stem the tide of building collapse and other structural defects is to deploy the use of forensic engineering in the construction industry, Anthony Oladapo Ajayi has said. Ajayi, a chartered ...

The District Health Department No. 4′s Montmorency office in Atlanta, Michigan, is closed, officials said Monday. The office will be closed until further notice because of a building structural ...

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 ...

Preliminary investigations by the Nairobi City County Government indicate that the collapse of a residential building under ...