Articles by Richard Korman

As Google, Uber, Amazon and Tesla work to transform transportation, there’s an important task that should be taken up by civil engineers: better informing the public about the risks.

New York bid-rigging trial outcome exposed a big ethics loophole in state’s use of nonprofit entity to award contracts

Jesse Ely, a union ironworker, can thank a net designed to catch falling debris for saving his life after a harrowing fall from the edge of a Seattle high-rise building.

In 2007, reports started filling newspapers and websites about the poor treatment of wounded veterans in aging federal hospitals, including those being built and run by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

The replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge is hurtling towards completion, with one of its two spans already carrying traffic and the dismantling of the old bridge under way. But with questions over the final cost and the completion date still unresolved, some are asking if N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has promised too much.

The major model building code in the U.S. may make adjustments in light of last June’s Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in London, where 71 people died.

For now, the Florida bridge collapse has many possible causes