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Category 4 hurricane Ida hit Louisiana: neighborhoods left underwater

Category 4 hurricane Ida hit southeastern Louisiana's Port Fourchon at a around 1 p.m. August 29th and slowly scraped across the state, delivering catastrophic winds and torrential rain to the same...

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Milan: Fire in a 20-storey residential tower block

A 20-storey building in Milan, on the southern outskirts of the capital of the Lombardy region, burst in flames on Sunday 29th of August while 30 residents were in their apartments. The fire started...

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Printout homes using new techniques: the rise of 3D-printed houses

Palari Homes and Mighty Buildings company is using a new technique to build houses within 24 hours. They use 3-D printing to prefabricate house components and assemble them in a factory. The last two...

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House partially collapsed after a portable gas canister exploded in Chesterfield

At approximately 17:30 BST on Monday a portable gas canister exploded in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, causing the partial collapse of a house.  Unfortunately, the blast caused the injury...

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Concrete roof collapse of industrial building in Singapore

On Sunday 22th of August at about 9:20 am, a concrete roof of an industrial building at 3013 Bedok Park E Bedok, partially collapsed. After the collapse, a team from the Singapore Civil Defence Force...

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Three-storey building collapsed in Spain

On Wednesday evening, August 25th, in the "Font Nova" housing estate in Peñíscola, about 130 kilometres northeast of Valencia, a three-storey apartment building collapsed. As a result, two people die...

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Building collapse in Egypt, at least 5 fatalities

On Friday 20th of August, a five-floor building collapsed in downtown Damanhur city in Egypt's Beheira Province, state-run Ahram. As a result, five people lost their lives while two were injured. A...

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Seismometers providing crucial data on Haiti’s earthquake

After the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 which cost the lives of thousands of people, scientists develop a network of low cost seismometers. These seismometers are installed in places where...

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SkyCiv hosts Structural Engineering Hackathon!

SkyCiv to Hold a Structural Engineering Hackathon in 2021 Leading Structural Analysis and Design software SkyCiv, will be holding a Structural Engineering hackathon from October 6 - 9th 2021. The eve...

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For the second time within a year, the London landmark Tower Bridge stuck open due to a technical failure

For the second time within a year, after a mechanical failure in August 2020, the world-famous, landmark, London Tower Bridge remained stuck open again on  August 10th, with cars and pedestrians unab...

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