When the dance floor turned deadly: The engineering mistake behind America’s worst structural disaster at the Hyatt Skywalk

While dancing on a floor with full energy and excitement, completely carefree, suddenly a structural failure causes a fatal ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When a Natural Disaster Hits, Structural Engineers Learn From the Destruction

Natural disasters do not destroy buildings evenly. By studying which fall and which are left standing, engineers can develop new strategies for the future. Win McNamee/Getty Images When you first see ...

Researcher warns of structural risks at Grand Renaissance Dam putting property and lives in danger

Askary, Ph.D., professor of computational and data science at Chapman University, concludes that the saddle dam of the Grand ...
Medicine Buffalo

Structural engineering professor and director of UB's SEESL lab featured at the Research Institute of Structural Engineering and Disaster Reduction

Bruneau was the invited Keynote Speaker, where he gave a talk titled “Christchurch: Rebuilding a Resilient City?” His discussion referenced a report from January he published with colleagues from the ...

Built to withstand, or built to worry? Housing and disaster risk perception

I have always been interested in how people make decisions under uncertainty—especially decisions about safety. But it was ...