In Honduras, the massive Choluteca Bridge was engineered to withstand the most brutal category 5 hurricanes, but when Hurricane Mitch struck in 1998, the extreme flooding caused the entire river to ...

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 ...

In connection with the collapse of a bridge on the Seoul-Sejong Expressway in Anseong City, Gyeonggi Province, which resulted in 10 casualties last February, a large number of individuals, including ...

UNESCO has partnered with the Government of Sikkim to document the indigenous engineering heritage of the cane bridges, also known as Ru-Soam, in the Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve in Sikkim, India ...

In a significant nod to indigenous engineering, UNESCO has moved to document Sikkim’s traditional Ru-Soam (cane bridges) for global protection. The move follows the remarkable resilience shown by ...