Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.
The nature of the office-to-apartment conversion job probably meant the Manhattan building couldn’t support the extra weight, said ASCE’s former president.
The steel-framed building formerly held offices for Pfizer, but is now being renovated into luxury residential housing, ...
Structural failures at MetroLoft, David Werner’s Midtown conversion could recast the value of unused air rights.
Structural problems at a building in Midtown Manhattan continue to snarl traffic as repairs and inspections proceed. The area was evacuated this week when the building was deemed at risk of collapse.
Buckling columns on a Midtown tower forced evacuations and street closures as city crews investigated the structural failure.
A review shows the city has reviewed at least 8 projects handled by the company Barone Steel Fabricators since the near-collapse of a Midtown Manhattan office building.
After a failure like the BJ's Wholesale roof collapse in Oakhurst, investigators work backward through months — or sometimes ...
A document on file at City Hall states that an engineer has found a downtown structure to be at risk of collapse.
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LASBCA and the fight against building collapse

Imagine a state boasting over three million houses where a major safety meeting draws roughly 60,000 attendees. On paper, this sounds like a massive success in the fight against building collapses.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside condominium disaster, a new federal report reveals that the condominium ...