The city of Bologna has begun a €4.3m project to prepare for the possible collapse of its famous, leaning Garisenda Tower, completed in 1119. The 48m-high structure leans at 4…

Four workers were killed on Monday and another was left with life-threatening injuries after scaffolding collapsed at a major building site in the German city of Hamburg. The incident occurred…

Four labourers and a pedestrian were killed and two people injured when the third floor of an under-construction building collapsed in Shah Faisal Colony in the city of Karachi, Pakistan.…

Jenny Shipley, New Zealand’s prime minister between 1997 and 1999, has been ordered to pay US$3.9m after the collapse of the Mainzeal construction company, for which she was a director.…

26 workers have been killed and two have been injured following the collapse of an under construction railway bridge in India’s north eastern Mizoram state. Reuters reports that between 28…

Twenty construction workers have been killed and three injured by the collapse of girder installing machine at a road building project in the west Indian state of Maharashtra. The collapse…

Officials in New York praised luck after a tower crane’s engine compartment burst into flames, causing its boom and 16 tons of concrete it was carrying to plunge onto the…

Police in the northeast Chinese city of Qiqihar have arrested the management team of a construction company suspected of illegally storing building materials on the roof of the school gymnasium…

A collapsing bridge girder has killed two construction workers and injured another six in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, 80km southwest of Tokyo. The accident occurred when a 65m-long girder, which was…

Dubai developer Damac International has announced plans to build a 12-storey condominium, designed by UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), to replace the building that collapsed in the town of…

The state of Pennsylvania and the US Federal Highway Administration together this week released $10m in emergency funds to start replacing a section of elevated highway in Philadelphia destroyed by…