Decades of research and post‑storm investigations now make it clear where commercial buildings fail in hurricanes; those insights are reshaping how the ...

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

Mubarak, has inaugurated a 13-member Committee of Inquiry to investigate the causes of Ghana’s recent cases of deadly ...

Under Philippine laws, the primary culpability for defective or failed structures and site safety violations falls on the ...

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 ...

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 Interior Ministry has launched a formal investigation into the growing number of fatal building collapses in Ghana, constituting a 13-member Committee of Inquiry to probe what government describes ...

The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) has raised fresh concerns over what it describes as persistent regulatory failures ...

A building collapse is not just a structural failure—it is a human tragedy. Families are displaced, lives are lost, and investments are wiped out in seconds. Yet, behind every failed structure lies an ...

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 ...