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I remember visiting the dam its crazy to imagine that area was full of water where sail boats raced for sport, a spot you couldn't even see unless you where a big shot of the day. I heard westwood then was more "restricted" to the rich. Even today you see a stark contrast between "down the hill" in the west end and "up the hill"

I was dating the food and beverage director of the Hyatt when this happened. He'd just stepped off one of the skywalks right before it fell. What had happened and what he saw really messed him up mentally. He had survivors guilt for a very long time afterwards. My Mother and I would frequently go to the top of the Hyatt's revolving restaurant for dinner 🍽️ and cocktails 🍸🍹 together. After the Hyatt reopened we never went back again. The fall of the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City was a disaster I'll never forget!

Carnegie gave dick!!

How many local building inspection offices just issue permits but don’t stop construction when they are refused to inspect? No calculations for load but issue permit? Should never have broken ground and why design box beam that is welded--seems like designed death to someone like me who doesn’t know first thing about building but I would have stopped framing because it doesn’t look right.

A flood that could of been prevented if not for geeed. 🥺

Good stuff, I have been a Quality Manger in upstream oil and gas service providers and the fact no inspections or QC was done blows my mind!!!!!

The water up here is so shallow, I'm amazed they could get anything through here, and it's like that year round except in the rainy months, which these days are so frequent, we're amazed at the weather too

I stayed for about a year or so in Moxham neighborhood of Johnstown between 99-2000, and I was fascinated by the flood. My foster mom took me to the flood museum and incline, but never realized how much history is out here, never got to see the site of the dam. For some reason, they avoided it. My foster dad took me fishing at North Fork Reservoir. Now I moved up here from Charleroi, in Washington county, near California l, PA, bought a house for less than $80k, in south Fork. I see the dam and flood trails, and we get out and walk and check things out, the horseshoe curve, portage railroad, the railroaders museum, the incline and flood museum, the spirts, all the woods and hunting and fishing and hiking, and the people are so nice! We love it out here, my wife and I, beautiful country in the mountains. It was our dream to retire up here, but I just happened to qualify for a home loan and we took the opportunity then and there. We are amazed at how nice it is out here and how cheap everything is, especially the houses, and they're really nice. We were wondering why this was? Especially compared to where we were, it's not much different.

Im from Pittsburgh born and raised in the town of Braddock.Carnegie and Frick were not good people at all.People of Homestead steel mill had gone on strike because they wer being worked hard and long hours for very little money,so Carnegie goes on vacation i think back to his home country Switzerland and leaves Henry Frick in charge of the mill at the time of the strike to deal with the workers,long story short Frick calls The Pinkertons in and alot of the worker got shot up and killed.Anyway Carnegie in his old age wanted to restore his name again and started building libraries and donating money and other things to communties.Its sad about all this,Rich people just think they are better then everybody else always hs been and always will be.I pray for this world all humanity and all living life God has created sometimes i think Humans are the most evil thing to ever walk this earth.Animals only kill for food and to protect their own not for greed and power! ❤

Great video+explanation+presentation! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge! Well done mate - NEW SUB 🙏🏻

This hotel is now a Sheraton.

Now I have to go and try and understand that Pythagorean formula as I could not work out what you were saying. Might be because I have no idea how to figure our how to work out square roots. 🙂

Informative video, please can you recommend some books on QC/QA?

Thank you for this.

Very interesting and good tips for prevention.

Well stated

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You are a good narrator...

Thank you for your video.

I was a geologist with a dam (ramona) in my quiver of mega projects and in my view developers in general are not to be trusted even now

Is it a god damn

Good video, I'd read about it long ago, this adds to the story. But I gotta tell ya, that was the worst rendition of Amazing Grace that I've ever heard.

Subscribed..you seem like your doing good work for your customers.building theirs like you would build your own.Good man.making all the right decision..

They wanted to finish for Mardi Gras in 2020?!? 😂😂 This building was doomed from the very beginning. It was NEVER going to have hotel guests

I still don’t believe they had to leave that one body exposed until demolition. They didn’t leave any residents of the Miami collapse exposed. They also didn’t drag their feet in demolition for a year

Cambria Steel was a competitor of Carnegie.

The lobby looks about the same today minus the walkways I often wonder if the visitors know what happened there.

Excellent video! I just subscribed and I will catch up watching all your content. You are so knowledgeable and informative. I’m learning all the time as our building industry is changing with new products being introduced… some good and some not so good. Again- thanks for sharing your knowledge! 👍🎺

Do it by the book and you won’t have a problem.

Really great vid thx. And good call on your personal field inspection example. Here…No…intuitively, just a cursory look should have indicated that it most definitely did not look ‘right’. Also there was no redundancy or fail-safe in this very slender design. I am also just curious…The city also checked and approved these drawings and inspectors in the field approved this too, yes? Construction is a team effort. Someone should have raised a question or two. Unbelievable. God bless those poor people. Cheers.

This is a concise and informative presentation which I (a layman) found interesting. I haven’t read anything else about the incident since the time of the collapse. I know the mayor wanted the whole thing demolished. Was it? It seemed to me that if the lower portion was undamaged and not defective then it could have been preserved and incorporated in a new design for the upper floors. I would have removed all of the upper structure, though, because I don’t think people would have confidence in it if it were merely reworked.

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Is there a blue board that is used to align structures ?

Thanks for this video..very interesting.. I've read books on this disaster but listening and watching this video is heartbreaking..

Johnstown was a booming steel city whose population peaked at 67,000 but in the 2020 census the population was around 18,500,housing is really cheap though.

I like your style. Keep the content coming.

Does it ever end? Men so full of themselves they think they know more than scientists, doctors, engineers. Same shit today.

What is auditing and how to do auditing for commercial building make a video for that

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It's like the guy tried to break the dam without looking like he purposefully was going to destroy it. Although when you block water and give it no way to pass through what the hell do you think is going to happen when it fills for 30+ years

You sound just like a teacher I had a while back, good video!

and then almost 3 years later the Surfside Condo Collapse happens

Thank you for your informative videos on all those accidents and catastrophies.

In my opinion as an engineer, the bad design was not as suggested here, and as in many other videos, but in the fact that the horizontal two FLANGES of the C channels were loaded as a CANTILEVER, and they did not transfer the vertical load to the vertical WIDER WEB, in a vertical manner. The vertical webs with a vertical load should have been used and not a twisting or torque load, on the flanges of the C beams. If wide THICK plates bridging across the two vertical wide webs were used with the loaded nuts, rather than using a thin washer with a small diameter, this would not have failed. Note, even the original design was no good as far as engineering logic goes, as it still loaded the two FLANGES in a cantilever torque mode, which should never be, in a C channel or an H channel. I would say that the original system would also have failed, as the welding holding the C channels together did not seem to be a good weld with no porosities and anyway, the original single rod was too close to the edge of the C beam. Exchanging the rods and placing the upper rod on the inner hole could have helped! Thick plates with side limits, working in conjunction with the loaded nuts would even eliminate the need for welding the C beams, but I still would have used welding anyway.

Lesson learnt: rich arseholes will kill people for fun and profit.

These are great keep it up uncle mike!

Not the first time a Hardrock project collapsed…. Parking garage at he Hollywood location dropped too.

1980😳 chilling to think when this happened, not too far away the residents of a shiney new building called Champlain were watching their buildings future unfold, I hope they are going through every single high rise in Florida with a flea comb before anyone else pays with their life