The President of Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Mr. Kunle Awobodu, is advising the youths to join the bricklaying trade. He said youths need to join the art in order to preserve and ...

Members of the Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Building, the Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers, more are of the opinion that the recent building collapse could have been avoided.

The BCPG warns of major Lagos high-rise risks, citing systemic failures in fire safety and structural integrity after ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued fines in connection with the deadly building ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigated the St. Marys building collapse, which left one dead and one ...

Following the recent Verulam building collapse that claimed five lives, Minister Dean Macpherson calls for accountability and a thorough investigation, drawing parallels to the tragic George incident ...

Emergency personnel responded to the partial collapse of an apartment building in New York City on Wednesday morning. At 8:10 a.m., an incinerator shaft collapsed at the public housing apartment ...

Nigeria has recorded more than 650 building collapses since 1974, with at least 1,616 lives lost, according to figures from the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG). Against this backdrop, legal ...

NEW YORK − A chimney spanning the entire 20 floors of a South Bronx public housing building collapsed down to the boiler room on Oct. 1, leaving a gaping expanse of exposed and broken brick all the ...

A NYCHA apartment building in the Bronx partially collapsed Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, 2025, following a gas explosion. The incinerator shaft running along the 20-story Mitchel Houses building in the ...