Tom Mooney’s letter (“Beware the NIMBY spin on “straight shot,” June 30, Aspen Daily News) is long on vitriol and short on facts. He utterly fails to recognize the conclusions of the city’s retained ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott asks engineering professor Sebastian Bryson what officials will be considering as they plan to rebuild the collapsed bridge in Baltimore. Maryland is getting $60 million in ...

The bridge on Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia that collapsed early on Sunday, June 11, wasn’t designed to withstand the heat of an extreme fire. Indeed, most bridges aren’t. The bridge was ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Waterways in the Hampton Roads area see massive container ships like the Singapore-registered vessel DALI every day. Like Baltimore, the 757 region relies heavily on several major ...

He wrote extensively about the design of buildings and bridges and how they failed. He also examined the history of commonplace objects like the pencil. By Richard Sandomir Henry Petroski, who ...