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 ...

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

In California, the biggest dam disaster ever was the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, near Los Angeles on March 12, 1928. This is also considered by some to be the worst engineering disaster of ...

The dam’s failure is widely regarded as the nation’s worst civil engineering disaster and while it caused a catastrophic loss of life, it also brought about a new era of engineering oversight ...

It established P. R. China’s first civil engineering programme in 1950, which, along with its mechanics programme, are national key disciplines, ranking among the top in the country.

A city with hundreds of leaning buildings, the world's scariest airport and the world's biggest sewage pipe harbor engineering disasters in need of repair; experts use cutting-edge technology to ...