Twelve years after the Kansas City ...

Twelve years after the Kansas City collapse that focused attention forward the subject, the industry is still trying to deal with its implications
Since the 1981 Kansas City Hyatt inn walkway collapse, which ensueed from a failure in the store drawing process, the construction industry has been searching for better-defined rules of allocating responsibility among members of the building team.
An extensive review of the issue undertaken by means of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1990 culminated in the publication of the 192-page guideline Quality in the instituteed ...