A new finding in the deadly Surfside condo collapse that killed 98 people shows the building began to experience structural ...

A federal investigation has concluded that the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, began ...

One month after a building under construction collapsed in Barangay Balibago and killed 30 people, investigators are nearing the release of their findings. But the question of who should be held ...

Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new ...

A federal investigation has determined that structural failures in the pool deck led to the partial collapse of the Champlain ...

On the five-year anniversary of the Surfside collapse, a building safety specialist highlights the importance of structural ...

Investigators, in new information released about the condo that collapsed five years ago, found "no evidence of any specific ...

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 ...

Under Philippine laws, the primary culpability for defective or failed structures and site safety violations falls on the ...

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 ...