Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro emergency declaration sets initial $7 million to repair damage after a tanker carrying a petroleum product caught fire early on June 11 under bridge in Philadelphia carrying northbound interstate lanes.
Months before a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, partially collapsed May 28, a structural engineer advised the property owner that an unexpected void space had been discovered during repairs to a damaged area of the exterior brick wall.
In what the civil engineers gtroup termed "the most significant change" to the 7-22 standard's flood load provisions since the inception of ASCE 7. the new supplement ties flood hazard mitigation to a
structure’s risk level, and sets the hazard area for most risk
categories to the 500-year floodplain for determining flood loads.
Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead.