A new engineering method could be the difference between a building surviving a failed support column and a chain reaction ...

Structural problems at a building in Midtown Manhattan continue to snarl traffic as repairs and inspections proceed. The area was evacuated this week when the building was deemed at risk of collapse.

Newly filed engineering plans for the city’s largest office-to-housing conversion project show construction crews will gradually jack up sagging floors in increments of 1/64th of an inch, or roughly ...