Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What appeared at first to be a massive sinkhole in Ventura was more likely a construction failure caused by an improperly shored ...

Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures — and how to avoid repeating them — a Louisiana-based nonprofit said to mark Tuesday’s 18th anniversary of the deadly, catastrophic levee ...

A decade ago, a construction site's "systems" meant scaffolding, cranes and concrete forms. Today, a commercial construction project runs on a stack of interdependent technology: building information ...