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Fast Company
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Built Brave How will terror and its aftermath reshape the design of office buildings? The new federal center in Oklahoma City offers some surprising (and surprisingly hopeful) answers.   |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Bill Wyman |
Why the towers collapsed The jetliners hit the World Trade Center buildings at a vulnerable point... |
Popular Mechanics
September 26, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Post-Minneapolis, Engineers Go Gonzo to Bombproof U.S. Bridges Paintball, Nanotechnology and Molecular Band-Aids may sound like a science fair, but these are the gizmos that could prevent terrorists from knocking out your city. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge |
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. |
Popular Mechanics
August 21, 2008
Arianne Cohen |
World Trade Center 7 Report Puts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory to Rest The long-awaited report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conclusively rebuts claims that explosives were involved in bringing down the twin towers. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out. |
Popular Mechanics
January 16, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
New Minn. Bridge Plans Arise as Bad Plates Fingered in Collapse New construction on St. Anthony Falls Bridge will make it one of the safest in the country. |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Linda Tischler |
What 9/11 Taught Us About Designing Skyscrapers A new, safer model of skyscraper rises from the site of the attack. |
AskMen.com
Norman Brown |
Top 10: Crazy Construction Projects This installment of the Top 10 features all sorts of construction projects -- not just skyscrapers -- that are either in the process of being completed or for which the plans have been finalized. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2006
Steven Cass |
Learning From Failure In his latest engaging and readable book, Success Through Failure, design guru Henry Petroski analyzes the cycle of mechanical failures and other flaws in the things around us to show that the old truism "nothing succeeds like success" is in fact a recipe for doom. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Erik Sofge |
Bomb-Resistant Buildings: Engineering Reinforcements Spray-on polymer coating for pickup trucks is "drafted" to help bombproof buildings. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Susan Tweit |
Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Neeta Bijoor |
China fills Three Gorges Dam Although the Three Gorges Dam is expected to boost China's economy and improve the standard of living, many wonder whether the benefits are worth the costs. |
Popular Mechanics
October 19, 2007
Stephen Flynn |
5 Disasters Coming Soon If We Don't Rebuild U.S. Infrastructure In the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, the author called on Congress to stop turning a blind eye to our crumbling public foundations. Here he reports on more cracks in American hardware that urgently need attention. |
