Episode 94 - Famous Failures

About this episode

This episode discusses famous structural engineering failures and the lessons learned from them.

In this week's episode, we discuss famous structural engineering failures. From the Hyatt Regency Collapse to Ronan Point, these instances have been crucial in helping us develop our profession and design safer, more appealing structures for the world. Creating the built environment inevitably involves mistakes; they only become a complete loss when we fail to learn from them. Structural Trivia:Join our structural trivia! A quick email mid-week will keep you sharp (FYI - Survey Monkey is often re-directed to the spam folder) Here Reach out to us:InstagramLinkedIn

People in this episode

Hosts: Zach, Max

Topics covered

• structural engineering failures
• safety in design
• learning from mistakes
• built environment
• structural trivia

Keywords

• structural engineering
• failures
• safety
• design
• trivia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hyatt Regency

Places: Ronan Point

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