Abstract :
ENGINEERING FAILURES have been blamed for many a disaster, from the poor ship design that sank the Titanic to overcomplicated financial engineering that sank the world economy. Is it fair? On page 18, we examine the reasons behind ten of the most famous disasters in the world. Many of them were large engineering projects but managers, politicians, builders and even decorators are more often to blame than engineers. Nick Spurrier teases out the lesson that was learned - well, usually learned - from each disaster
