PowerPoint report of Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse of 1981 1. The Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse Department of Philosophy and Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University NSF Grant Number DIR-9012252 Negligence And The Professional "Debate" Over Responsibility For Design Instructor's Guide - Introduction To The Case On July 17, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, held a videotaped tea-dance party in … Three suspended walkways spanned the atrium at the second, third, and fourth floor levels. The Hotel had … 2-INTRODUCTION On July 17, 1981, during a dance party, the collapse of two walkways in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City resulted in the deaths of 114 human lives with a loss of millions of dollars. An investigation was lead to determine the cause of the incident. It was one of the worst structural engineering failures in the history of United States. On the night of July 17, 1981, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, two suspended walkways of the Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring 200 more. 114 deaths and 216 injured "the beginning of urban heavy rescue". Cause: “A deviation in the design in the way the rods connected the lower skywalk to the upper and the upper to the ceiling of the atrium was clearly described and zeroed in on as the ultimate cause of the accident.” On July 17, 1981, two suspended walkways within the atrium area of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri cllapsed leaving 113 people dead and 186 injured.

• Hold paramount the safety, health , and welfare of the public. In 1981, a walkway in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City collapsed, killing 114 people and injuring 200 more.
The investigation included on-site inspections, laboratory tests and analytical studies. During this calamity, the hotel was hosting a dance competition. Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse Isabela Novaes, Kassidy Rehm, Ash Bista, Hamza Sadiq 2. In July 1980, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, opened for business, boasting among its design features a multistory atrium with three suspended walkways-a fourth-story walkway spanning directly above a walkway on the second floor, with a third-story walkway offset by a few meters. On July 17, 1981, two suspended walkways within the atrium area of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., collapsed. Hyatt Regency Walkways: The Ethical Issues By Olivier Dragon Report written by Yamama Khadduri Team 3 March 12, 2003 . An investigation into the collapse of two suspended walkways within the atrium area of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., is presented in this report. leaving 113 people dead and 186 injured, In terms of loss of life and injuries, this was the most devastating On July 17, 1981, the second and fourth story walkways of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed killing 114 people and seriously injuring an additional 200. (The fourth-floor walkway collapsed onto the second-floor walkway, while the offset third-floor walkway remained intact.) Overview Ethical Issues in Engineering Summary of the Events Technical Issues Stakeholders Consequences of the Tragedy What About Software Engineering?