Sleuthing the Mundane and the Catastrophic.
The article focuses on forensics, which refers to tragic collapses in terms of design and construction and is associated with litigation. Most architects and engineers prefer to use the term root cause investigation to describe their work of finding the root cause and solutions for the problems that...
| Publicado en: | Architectural Record Vol. 194; no. 10; pp. 45 - 46 |
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BNP Media
Oct2006
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on forensics, which refers to tragic collapses in terms of design and construction and is associated with litigation. Most architects and engineers prefer to use the term root cause investigation to describe their work of finding the root cause and solutions for the problems that plague buildings. Examples of such collapses are the 1981 walkway failure at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency and the 2003 collapse of a Midtown Manhattan office building. |
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