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Hospitals across the nation could be forced to close buildings because of the same crumbling concrete crisis that has affected schools.

At 5:45am on 16 May 1968, a gas explosion caused by a faulty cooker connection caused a section of the 22 storey Ronan Point tower block in East London to

This is one of the results of an ICE-commissioned members’ survey undertaken to better understand the impact of the fire on the infrastructure sector. The

I hope that many lessons will be learnt from that fire and that it will prove to be a turning point. But what should we as civil engineers learn from

Additionally, more than 90% of civil engineers believe their profession still has lessons to learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster, a survey of ICE

 

Possible Failure Point Emerges in Miami Building Collapse Some engineers looking at the failure of a 13-story condo tower in Florida said the collapse appeared to have begun somewhere near the bottom of the building. Video Video annotated by The New York Times describes the stages of a deadly building collapse in Surfside, Fla., on Thursday. The video, which captures the southern side of the building, appears to be a recording of a screen playing the surveillance footage.CreditCredit...Erin Sch...

Engineers could be missing out on vital knowledge as a result of the lack of an investigation body to carry out forensic analysis of road bridge collapses in the UK. The gap in the UK’s regulatory line-up was raised by independent bridge consultant Richard Fish during an evening lecture hosted by the Institution of Structural Engineers last week but the need for such a body has been supported by other leaders in the bridges sector. “Every bridge collapse needs a forensic investigation to un...