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 ...

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 ...

Prompt site assessment of wind damage from major storms such as hurricanes and tornadoes is a crucial step in determining the extent of property loss. The assessment of wind damage is important for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds gather at Whitefish Point to honor Edmund Fitzgerald crew CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - Hundreds of people gathered at Whitefish Point for a memorial organized by the Great Lakes ...

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 ...