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M7.0 earthquake in southwest Mexico
- Sep, 08, 2021
- Earthquake Engineering Seismic Effects Damage (Structural) Structural Failures News On Events News On Failures News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Mexico
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck southwest Mexico. According to the United States Geological Survey the quake hit 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) east-northeast of Los Órganos de San Agustín, about eig...
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Category 4 hurricane Ida hit Louisiana: neighborhoods left underwater
- Aug, 29, 2021
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- United States, Louisiana
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 29, 2021
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- Italy, Milan
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 18, 2021
- Structural Design Structure Reinforcement Concrete Structures Sustainable Development News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry Other News
- United States, California
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 22, 2021
- Blasting Effects Damage (Structural) News On Events News On Failures
- United Kingdom, Chesterfield
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 22, 2021
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) News On Events News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Singapore
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 26, 2021
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- Spain
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 20, 2021
- Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Other Structural News On Events News On Failures
- Egypt
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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
- Aug, 24, 2021
- Earthquake Engineering Structural Failures Seismic Effects News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Haiti
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
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!
- Aug, 25, 2021
- General Finite Element Programs News On Events
- Australia, Sydney
- Authored by: SkyCiv Engineering
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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