April 6, 2022
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of a five-story apartment building in North Miami Beach have been ordered to evacuate after officials deemed the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process, officials said. The residents were ordered out …
October 3, 2019
A U.S. panel has asked Boeing Co to make an engineer available for an interview after reports that the worker filed an internal ethics complaint on 737 MAX’s safety and that the planemaker convinced the regulator to relax safety standards. …
April 21, 2014
The Lamar County Board of Supervisors has given the county engineer approval to hire a firm that will look into why roads in at least three county subdivisions have been crumbling away. The Hattiesburg American reports that GeoCon Laboratories Inc. …
November 15, 2011
An engineer says shoddy materials and construction techniques caused a fatal collapse at a building site in Brooklyn last week. Steve Schneider tells The Daily News that the contractor was using lighter gauge steel than required for the floor decking …
October 31, 2011
A structural engineer and an insurance investigator will help determine why an 8-foot wall collapsed in a Michigan high school locker room, killing a 14-year-old student. Police said Williamston High School freshman Gabriel Corbett was buried under cement blocks from …