News
News
Apartment building collapses due to fire in Scotland
A 4-story building located in south Glasgow, Scotland collapsed due to an overnight fire that initiated on its ground floor. The incident occurred on late Sunday, November 11, 2019. According to re...
Read More
Massive blaze in Bolton's student building: 2 injured
- Nov, 17, 2019
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other Structural
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
A massive fire engulfed a building that accommodated students in Bolton, United Kingdom, resulting in 2 injuries. The fire initiated at the 6th (top) floor of the building and rapidly spread along...
Read More
Franki's geotechnical work for the construction of Cervejas de Moçambique’s new brewery
Franki Africa (a Keller company) is the largest, oldest and most established specialist contractor in sub-Saharan Africa. Franki had to call on all its experience to meet the array of challenges for t...
Read More
Wooden bridge collapse in an Indonesian resort
A wooden bridge in a Hotel resort located in Batam, Indonesia, partially collapsed injuring 26 people. The bridge that rises 3 meters above the sea, was constructed in 2012. The failure occurr...
Read More
Restricted Access Piling at Hayes and Harlington Railway Station in London by Keller
Hayes and Harlington station serves the west London districts from Paddington Station to Heathrow and forms part of the Crossrail Package 3 upgrade which involves new trains, improved stations and eas...
Read More
International flights began in Beijing's new airport
Daxing, Beijing's new vast airport (PKX), started international flight operations on Sunday, October 27, 2019. The facility will aid in alleviating the congestion in the existing Beijing's Internat...
Read More
7-story building failure in Brazil: 9 people dead
A 7-story apartment building suddenly gave way trapping people under the rubble. The structure that was located in Fortaleza city (north-east of Brazil) collapsed at about 10:30 a.m. on O...
Read More
Leonardo da Vinci's bridge performance evaluation
A bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci but was never constructed is now being tested by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Back in 1502, Leonardo da Vinci...
Read More
The cranes at the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans to be demolished
A week after Hard Rock Casino Hotel collapse, authorities decided to blow 2 damaged cranes that still lie in the construction site. The project that was located in New Orleans and was under constru...
Read More
Overpass gives way crashing cars beneath in China
A bridge suddenly collapsed and crashed down on a road beneath, devastating 3 vehicles, in China. The structure is located in Wuxi city, north-west of Shanghai, in the province of Jiangsu...
Read More