While collecting this short list of engineering disasters, I decided that to qualify as a disaster, an event had to involve loss of life, and the larger the loss of life, the ...

Eighty-six years after America's worst civil engineering disaster, the lessons appear painfully obvious. Engineers now know that each big project has its own ...

More than 35 years later, the post-mortem on one of the country's worst engineering disasters appears to be simple. A contractor asked for a change in an origin ...

Engineering is an essential part of the modern world - we wouldn't have things like roads without it - but it can cause dangerous situations when things go wrong. This series takes a look at what ...

The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters.

His incompetent and slipshod engineering was blamed for the disaster and the deaths, and this was only his most serious blunder.

Were some of the world’s worst engineering disasters the result of human error or incredibly bad luck…or both?