Quotulatiousness

May 12, 2018

The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse

Filed under: Technology, USA — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Tom Scott
Published on 13 Mar 2017

Today’s guest video is from Grady at Practical Engineering! Go subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/gradyhillhouse

The Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse was a disaster that changed engineering: it’s taught in colleges and universities as a way to make it clear: you check and double-check everything. Something that seems like a subtle change can cause a catastrophic failure if it’s not thoroughly checked first!

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