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  2. List of building and structure collapses - Wikipedia

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    Building under construction 14 dead, 35 injured 1973: Broadway Central Hotel, Mercer Arts Center: New York, NY, US: Hotel and theaters: 4 dead, at least 12 injured 1973: Zeulenroda Artificial Lake bridge: Zeulenroda, Germany : Bridge (under construction) 4 dead 1974: Makahali River bridge: Baitadi, Nepal: Bridge: 140 dead 1974: Miami DEA ...

  3. Structural integrity and failure - Wikipedia

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    Collapsed barn at Hörsne, Gotland, Sweden Building collapse due to snow weight. Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to prevent failures in future designs.

  4. List of failed and overbudget custom software projects

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    Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.

  5. Cost overrun - Wikipedia

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    Recent works by Ahiaga-Dagbui and Smith suggests an alternative to what is traditionally seen as an overrun in the construction field. [3] They attempt to make a distinction between the often conflated causes of construction cost underestimation and eventual cost overruns. Critical to their argument is the point of reference for measuring cost ...

  6. Holmdene Brickworks v Roberts Construction - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after construction was completed, Holmdene's bricks "were beginning to crumble and decompose," [1] manifesting a condition known as "efflorescence," which threatened the stability of the entire edifice. The affected walls were perforce demolished, and Roberts sued for consequential damages arising from the breach of the contract.

  7. Case Study Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Stahl House, Case Study House #22. The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.

  8. Bailey House (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    The Bailey House, or Case Study House #21, is a steel-framed modernist house in the Hollywood Hills, designed by Pierre Koenig. It was registered as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #669, with the endorsement of then-owner Michael LaFetra, the Los Angeles Conservancy , and Pierre and Gloria Koenig.

  9. Big Blue crane collapse - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] A safety inspector was filming construction of the stadium on that day and captured the collapse on video as it occurred. Wind speeds were between 20 and 21 miles per hour (32 and 34 km/h), with gusts of up to 26 to 27 miles per hour (42 to 43 km/h), at the time of the collapse. [ 4 ]