As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they’re getting dangerously hot. Green roofs have long been promoted as ...

Prefabricated homes are built differently from traditional houses, but they face the same basic challenge: keeping outdoor ...

A Stanford researcher's climate model found that tens of thousands of offshore wind turbines could slash hurricane wind speeds by up to 92 mph while generating enough power for 100 million homes. The ...

Engineers can reduce dangerous swaying in tall buildings by making floors that move 1. Wind and earthquakes shake buildings, which can disturb occupants and even cause collapse. To avoid this, many ...

New York City inspectors are conducting safety probes into other construction sites in the city after a Midtown Manhattan conversion project was at risk of partial collapse last week. The city is ...

The New York City Department of Investigation has opened an inquiry after a Manhattan high-rise’s columns buckled earlier this week, forcing workers to flee and officials to evacuate neighboring ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The former Cathedral High School building in Uptown, which the city considers to be neglected and derelict, has a new owner. Local developer Brian Toerber ...

Crews are expected to finish emergency shoring of a Midtown Manhattan high-rise by Thursday, the building’s developer says. But the timeline and next steps in the “unusually ambitious” construction ...

Construction crews worked all Wednesday to prop up the Manhattan high-rise that suddenly buckled — but what caused the terrifying structural failure still remained a mystery. Temporary shoring and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A midtown Manhattan building was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after steel beams started "bending like cigarettes," as one expert ...

A New York City high-rise building near Grand Central Terminal was evacuated on Tuesday morning after authorities said it was at risk of collapsing. The 37-story building at 235 East 42nd Street in ...