Abstract
Kansas City Hyatt Regency hotel takes its fame after the unfortunate incident of July 17, 1981, when the two suspended walkways within the atrium area of the hotel in Kansas City, MO, collapsed, leaving 113 people dead and 186 injured. In terms of loss of life and injuries, this was the most devastating structural collapse ever to take place in the USA. This case study provides a good example of the assessment of the negative consequences and value depreciation and reputation loss for DAV analysis.
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Marshall RD, Pfrang EO, Leyendecker EV, Woodward KA, Reed RP, Kasen MB, Shives TR (1982) Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse. (NBS BSS 143), Building Science Series – #143, May 31, [Washington DC.]. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38324/m1/35/. Accessed December 28, 2020. University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Exercise 12
Exercise 12
Use one or more of the tables included in the Appendix section to conduct a partial DAV analysis of the case study provided in this chapter. Did the value adding features (suspended walkways) contribute to cost, schedule, or quality of the product positively or negatively? What could or should have been done to realize the full benefit of the value added by the special features of this design?
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Table A.1: Building facts
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Table A.2: Stakeholders
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Table A.3: Design features
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Table A.4: Timeline
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Table A.5: Estimated ordinal values for stakeholder benefits
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Table A.6: Estimated NPV for feature; Energy Savings
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Table A.7: Estimated NPV for feature; Structural System
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Table A.8: Calculation of net present value of a double-skin Facade
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Table A.9: AHP ranking matrix technique applied to similar buildings
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Table A.10: Benchmarking of N-number of comparable buildings
The information provided about this case is at best limited. Feel free to collect additional information to undertake a complete analysis and make necessary assumptions. Some resources to help you get started include the following:
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Marshall RD (1982) Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkways collapse. Building Science Series. 143. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
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Petroski H (1985) “Accidents waiting to happen”. To engineer is human: the role of failure in structural design. New York: Random House. pp. 85–93.
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Levey M, Salvadori M, Woest K (1994) Why buildings fall down: how structures fail. W. W. Norton & Company.
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Akın, Ö. (2022). Kansas City Hyatt Regency, Kansas City, MO, USA. In: Design Added Value. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28860-0_13
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