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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 ...

A structural engineering expert has attributed recent building collapses to poor professional supervision, use of substandard materials, and failure to comply with approved construction designs.

Florida’s buildings are fighting a losing battle against their own climate. Salt air, rising humidity, intensifying storms ...

Four recent catastrophic building collapses and a near miss are raising concerns about the state of America’s aging buildings and questions about who, if anyone, is checking their safety. Many cities ...

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 ...

Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Thursday that local developer Steven Sushner will pay $400,000 to repair a Ward 4 condominium building so structurally unsound that it physically swayed during ...

The city has red-tagged the Hotel Beaumont ballroom for demolition due to structural failure.

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NEW YORK ‒ On Monday, a seven-story tenement building in New York City partially collapsed, heaping a 12-foot mound of debris on the street and forcing over 170 people, including dozens of children, ...

As storm season approaches, the question is no longer which building meets minimum requirements—but which one is built to endure.