Editor’s Note: Hanif Kara is a professor of the practice of architectural technology at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and the cofounder and design-director of the interdisciplinary ...
Last week’s deadly collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium in a small town on the same barrier island as Miami Beach, Fla., is raising concerns among structural engineers and designers about how ...
A catastrophic building failure left 98 dead, the authorities concluded. By The New York Times Firefighters, search dogs and emergency crews spent just over a month scouring the rubble for survivors ...
The country’s eyes have been on Surfside, Fla., for months now as search crews and investigators continue looking for answers in the wake of the tragic condominium building collapse. As details of the ...
The investigation into what may be the deadliest accidental building collapse in American history has just begun, but experts who have examined video footage of the disaster outside Miami are focusing ...
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) published ACI 318-19: “ Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete ” in July 2019, in response to new engineering practices and industry changes. ACI 318 ...
A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere heard on Friday that the mode of collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) guest house was inconsistent with structural defect. A professor of ...
Most structural failures are associated with materials and are the consequence of human error involving a lack of knowledge about materials or the combination of ...
Regulators with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration and the city of Cincinnati are investigatingthe collapse of the second floor of Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino as workers were pouring ...
The mode of collapse of the Synagogue Church guest house was inconsistent with the mode of any building with structural failure anywhere in the world. This was expressed by an international expert and ...