Comment by II2II

Don't worry, engineers can imagine (or, more accurately, analyze) how these buildings will remain standing. A good chunk of it is understanding how to distribute forces throughout a structure. The other chunk of it is understanding the properties of materials. While I didn't read the article in question, I did see the Veritasium video a while back. They have a decent overview of how it works, and how they figured out that there was a problem before the building collapsed. (Specifically, how the change from the original concept to the constructed building posed a problem.)

By the way, trust engineers and never trust physicist with these things. Physicists do have the theoretical tools to handle such problems, but they rarely have the practical knowledge to successfully implement them. :)