Roof repairs are most effective when problems are corrected before moisture reaches structural components”— Thad Brown ...

Our built environment is aging and failing faster than we can maintain it. Recent building collapses and structural failures of roads and bridges are indicators of a problem that’s likely to get worse ...

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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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 ...

Boulder County firefighters have been unable to use the county's two burn buildings for live fire training for months, after structural damage forced the closure of the Boulder and Longmont buildings ...

The Sunbury/Big Walnut Area Chamber of Commerce posted this photo to Facebook after the neighboring Atlas Insurance building’s roof collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. No one was injured in the incident ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...