NEW ORLEANS - Steel beams supporting the 16th floor of the ill-fated Hard Rock Hotel project in downtown New Orleans were so “grossly underdesigned” that the deadly collapse of the unfinished building ...

BOSTON (CBS) — Newly released surveillance video shows the moment steel columns fell like dominoes at a Boston University construction site, taking two workers down with them. If you look closely, you ...

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

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 ...

CONCERNS AT A DOWNTOWN HIGH RISE. A MAN WHO LIVES AT THE WALL STREET TOWER CONDOS AT 11TH AND WALNUT SENT A TIP TO KMBC NINE INVESTIGATES WITH HIS CONCERNS ABOUT THE STRUCTURAL SAFETY OF WHERE HE ...

Q. The outside of the Lally columns in my under-the-house garage have rusted out at the bottom. The inside concrete looks OK, but is the outside steel layer important? A. Lally columns are made up of ...

A rust-colored steel column salvaged from the debris of the World Trade Center has been moved to its new memorial location, along a forested walkway outside CIA headquarters just outside the nation’s ...