On January 21, 2025, a severe winter storm delivered record-setting snowfall across the Florida Panhandle. The city of Pensacola recorded 8.9 inches of snow, breaking a state record that had stood ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protesters gather at the site of a partially-collapsed apartment building in Davenport on Tuesday. An electronic paper trail shows the city was aware of structural problems that needed attention and ...

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 ...

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, ...

A year after its new headquarters tower crumpled during an earthquake, the State Audit Office (SAO) has outlined four critical structural and construction failures that led to the collapse.The details ...

On Sunday, March 29, 2026, the country was hit with the devastating news of the fatal collapse of the Accra New Town ...

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.

Nairobi and Kericho counties witnessed separate construction incidents on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, resulting in two confirmed deaths and multiple injuries. The National Construction Authority (NCA) ...