The nature of the office-to-apartment conversion job probably meant the Manhattan building couldn’t support the extra weight, said ASCE’s former president.
The deadly 2021 partial collapse of a condominium building in Surfside, FL, was rooted in severe design and construction ...
Structural problems at a building in Midtown Manhattan continue to snarl traffic as repairs and inspections proceed. The area was evacuated this week when the building was deemed at risk of collapse.
A major Midtown Manhattan thoroughfare remains gridlocked and seven surrounding buildings have been evacuated after two ...
As city engineers work to understand why a massive Midtown redevelopment project suddenly threatened to collapse on Tuesday, ...
Images and videos of the Manhattan building analyzed by The Times show that the structural columns buckled directly beneath ...
Recurring cases of building collapse have continued to raise concerns about the safety of residential and commercial buildings. In June, about nine people, including a baby, were killed, while 27 ...
Government agency NIST concludes that an undetected structural failure in 2021 created a domino effect that ultimately claimed 98 lives.
Buckling columns on a Midtown tower forced evacuations and street closures as city crews investigated the structural failure.
A New York Times review of city records shows that the firm, Domani Inspection Services, was repeatedly accused of breaking ...
Work began Tuesday night to shore up the failed columns on the project converting a commercial office building to apartments, ...
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LASBCA and the fight against building collapse

Imagine a state boasting over three million houses where a major safety meeting draws roughly 60,000 attendees. On paper, this sounds like a massive success in the fight against building collapses.