A tragic maritime incident unfolded on May 17, 2025, when the Mexican Navy's tall training ship Cuauhtémoc collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The impact snapped the vessel’s three ma...
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Read MoreResidents of McGregor Road in Notting Hill woke up to a terrifying scene as parts of three buildings collapsed in the early hours of March 19, 2025. The front gable end of a row of three terraced hou...
Read MoreYou can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of February 2025. Namely, these were: 1) AI...
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Read MoreYou can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of January 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Ch...
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