Q: I’m building a new home and visited the job site a few days ago. I was aghast at a possible defect in my foundation. Parts of the concrete foundation are suspended in midair. The walls are only ...

FRIGHTENING MOMENTS CAPTURED ON VIDEO. LIKE BOWLING PINS A STEEL BEAM FALLS INTO ANOTHER THEN ANOTHER BRINGING DOWN PART OF FRAME ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE A CLOSE-UP SHOWS THE FRIGHTENING MOMENTS FOR ...

A beam or "girder" bridge is the simplest and most inexpensive kind of bridge. According to Craig Finley of Finley/McNary Engineering, "they're basically the vanillas of the bridge world." In its most ...

Water seeping into the horizontal beams supporting a balcony could have caused dry rot, contributing to a balcony collapse that killed six people in Berkeley, engineers who visited the scene said ...