Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...

The scenes of devastation were horrendous when the skywalks of Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel came crashing down on the crowd below on July 17, 1981. Oversights in the construction of the two ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster exposed the dangers of BP’s offshore operations. From ignored warnings to engineering failures ...

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than 10 miles of the atmosphere. So when you think about it, every day that life ...