Building officials of Miami-Dade County suspect deferred maintenance rather than weak building codes or an inadequate 40-year recertification process required by the county was the likely reason for the June 24 building failure in Surfside, Fla. The partial collapse of the 40-year-old Champlain Towers South residential condominium caused at least 98 fatalities.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology team has collected more than 200 building elements while refining its procedures for evidence identification.

SOM will lead the design of the Olympic Village for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics taking place Feb. 6-22, 2026. 

This summer, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers expects to release, for public comment, a draft of the first U.S. consensus standard addressing disproportionate collapse of structures.

Structural engineer studying the near-twin of the Surfside, Fla., condo that collapsed says there is no indication of the potential for a collapse.

Search and rescue operations ceased on July 3 so that crews could prepare to raze, using charges, the damaged wing of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium.

Investigators probing the trigger of the progressive collapse of a section of the Florida residential condominium are preparing a computer model of the unstable 12-story tower remains to advise about vacating rescuers in the event of a hurricane.