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 big problem is that some mistakes can have disastrous consequences, and many engineering mistakes, in fact, do. We're all familiar with a number of disasters that were caused by major design ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...