Question

please read the article in online 'Understanding the Tragic Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse' and explain what will happen if the incident is to happen in Malaysia, who would conduct such investigations and what would have happened to the engineers involved.

Answer 1

The given article is about the collapse of the walkaway. It has lead to loss of many life due to the failure of the structure. That was one if the disastrous case in the US structure failure history. If this case would have happened in Malaysia, then people would demand for proper investigation of the structure and something should be done for the people who have lost their lives due to the structure failure. Their families should have been given different kind of insurance packages by the government.

Different kind of investigation are to be carried out and it is to be done by civil engineering site inspector and he would give orders to carryout different kind of investigation about what was the reason of the failure. There may be possibility that there work done was not professional and many mistakes has been done. The material quality will also be checked and if the quality if material is not up to the mark then it may cause problems to those who all were related to this construction project. The engineers related to this project will have to bear many consequences as this was their responsibility to check the design and construction of the structure. The structure's failure is indirectly their failure and as if there is loss of lots of lives, they may be sentenced to jail if found guilty in the investment and they may only be saved if it is seen in the investigation that the structure failure was not due to any manual problems as it may be just because of any natural factors also.