While collecting this short list of engineering disasters, I decided that to qualify as a disaster, an event had to involve loss of life, and the larger the loss of life, the ...

In California, the biggest dam disaster ever was the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, near Los Angeles on March 12, 1928. This is also considered by some to be the worst engineering disaster of ...

The dam’s failure is widely regarded as the nation’s worst civil engineering disaster and while it caused a catastrophic loss of life, it also brought about a new era of engineering oversight ...

The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters.

Were some of the world’s worst engineering disasters the result of human error or incredibly bad luck…or both?

The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los ...