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Public works departments and the design and construction firms that work for them already see fallout from the suspension of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Rice University and Lehigh University have announced the launch of the Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe ...

Massive structural damage in the wake of disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, landslides, and wildfires can make recovering ...

An extraordinary property built with "7,300 cubic yards of super-reinforced concrete" has hit the market in Malibu.

A groundbreaking tool from Texas A&M University is giving emergency crews a powerful new way to assess damage faster than ...

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The FCT Emergency Management Department (FEMD) has forged partnership with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) on engineering systems to enhance disaster management in ...

It sounds backwards, but sometimes engineers create floods on purpose and for good reason. In this video, we explore why controlled flooding can restore wetlands, protect cities, and even save entire ...

Georgia Tech’s Dr. Hermann Fritz explains how engineering failures worsened Katrina’s devastation in New Orleans. Minneapolis school shooting latest: Robin Westman ‘wanted to watch children suffer’, ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...