Ankita
Member • Jul 16, 2011
Kansas City (KC) Hyatt Skywalk Collapse- Deadliest Engineering Failure
On 17th July, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Tragedy affected many lives and changed engineering protocols and standards.
It's considered one of the deadliest engineering failures in American history.
But 30 years after the Hyatt Skywalk collapse, architects and engineers are still looking at the tragedy as a classic example of what not to do when designing a building.
Here's a coverage from National Geographic:
[video=youtube;W_FbuWeY8Is]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_FbuWeY8Is&feature=related[/video]
[video=youtube;_lOav24Bfzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOav24Bfzs[/video]
I went through it and thought fellow civil engineers could discuss this issue on the forum.
It's considered one of the deadliest engineering failures in American history.
But 30 years after the Hyatt Skywalk collapse, architects and engineers are still looking at the tragedy as a classic example of what not to do when designing a building.
Here's a coverage from National Geographic:
[video=youtube;W_FbuWeY8Is]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_FbuWeY8Is&feature=related[/video]
[video=youtube;_lOav24Bfzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOav24Bfzs[/video]
I went through it and thought fellow civil engineers could discuss this issue on the forum.