Example of Assignments Related to a Structural Disaster

Pick an example of a structural failure or disaster of some type (structure (s), building collapse, preferably which has occurred in the last ten years.  Your term paper will be 5 pages (1250 words) in length. However, you may use any disaster that changed any building code. Describe it in some detail, and discuss what issues might have been at least partly responsible for the failure.    In other words, create a failure analysis report for this failure that includes:

• 1. What failed.
• 2. Why it failed.
• 3. Possible corrective actions (How to make it not fail). Change of Codes??
• 4. Who was at fault, and why.
• DO NOT TALK ABOUT A LARGE FIRE, THIS IS ABOUT CONSTRUCTION FAILURE, IF YOU DO A REPORT WITH A FIRE AS A CAUSE, LET ME KNOW THE CONSTRUCTION PROBLEM WITH THE BUILDING AND NOT THAT THE FIRE CAUSED THE BUILDING TO COLLAPSE.