After years of deferred maintenance needs, the decaying Fern Hollow Bridge finally collapsed in Pittsburgh in January 2022. Two years later, a cargo ship dead in the water took down the Francis Scott ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney John Hillsman has spent a legal lifetime learning about ships, boats, and nearly anything that floats. And he's seen his share of disasters, including representing Bay Area ...

Suyun Ham can’t take his eyes off a scanner. "Lower the sensors a little bit more," Ham urges an assistant. Then a barrage of data floods in, filling computer screens for a diagnosis. But Ham isn’t a ...

From two skybridges overburdened with the weight of too many people to a bridge that was hastily constructed to meet a deadline, the reasons for these terrible bridge disasters scattered throughout US ...

Every Melburnian knows the West Gate Bridge, crossing the Yarra River north of its exit to Port Phillip Bay. It looms, it ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster serves as a powerful lesson in engineering and aerodynamics. The collapse on November 7, 1940, stands as one of the most dramatic and instructive engineering ...