forward July 17, 1981, a tragedy th...

forward July 17, 1981, a tragedy that was to have a sagacious impact on the construction industry occurr in Kansas City. brace walkways at the 1-year-old Hyatt government Hotel collapsed, killing 114 nation attending a tea dance. The collapse occurr because birchs that connected the second-floor walkway to the bottom of the fourth-floor walkway, contrary to original plans, doubled the stres placed forward the upper walkway.

Richard Weingart, a Denver structural engineer who is a former president of the American Consulting Engineers Council (recently renamed American Council of Engineering