For your assignments, you may be required to locate a building, bridge, dam, or other built environment that endured a major failure causing it to be closed due to safety concerns, abandoned, and/or repaired. Here are a few examples of built environment failures.
- Drilling and Well Closure Failures at BP Macondo Well
- Piper Alpha Oil Rig Failure
- Levee Failure, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
- Dan River Coal Ash Spill
- Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Ash Spill
- Ocean Ranger Drill Rig Collapse
- Ronan Point Apartment Tower Collapse
- Kelly Barnes Dam Failure, Georgia
- KaLoko Reservoir Dam Failure, Hawaii
- Laurel Run Dam Failure
- Schoharie Creek Bridge Collapse
- West Gate Bridge Collapse
- Harbor Cay Condominium Collapse
- The collapse of Terminal 2E Roissy at Charles de Gaulle Airport
- Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse
- Royal Plaza Hotel in Khorat, Thailand
- St Francis Dam in California
- Lotus Riverside Complex in Shanghai, China
- I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse on 8/1/2007
- I-85 Atlanta bridge collapse on 3/30/2017
- I-95 southbound bridge collapse in Pennsylvania on 6/11/2023
- Silver bridge collapse in West Virginia in 1967
- Rana Plaza collapse in Savar Upazilla, Bangladesh
