NEW ORLEANS - Steel beams supporting the 16th floor of the ill-fated Hard Rock Hotel project in downtown New Orleans were so “grossly underdesigned” that the deadly collapse of the unfinished building ...

Jun. 17—Motorists on Frederica Street are seeing something new at the old Texas Gas building at 3800 Frederica St. It's been stripped to the steel beams and concrete. Ed Ray, chief operating officer ...

A structural engineer who helped demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel last year says video of the deadly disaster shows the building’s steel failed at the 16th floor of the 18-story ...

The Transbay Transit Terminal is shut down through next week. Two cracked steel beams in the $2 billion structure were discovered earlier this week. What caused those beams to crack? KRON4 News asked ...

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

SAN FRANCISCO — Defects that occurred during fabrication, along with holes cut into the steel, are likely what caused two structural steel beams to crack just six weeks after the $2.2 billion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Motown Museum achieved a crucial expansion benchmark Thursday, Nov. 13, as an abundantly autographed beam was lifted into ...