In Ancient Rome blaming gods was never an excuse. For example, there an architect or a chief builder had to spent several nights under the bridge after its opening. In general they followed a rule similar to one in ancient Babylon which explicitly required to put the architect to dearth if a building collapse would kill the owner. And if the collapse would kill a son of the owner, then the son of the architect would be put to death.

That puts rather different perspective on the quality and longevity.