Engineers are held responsible for the public s safety in the design of their projects and must be held accountable if something goes wrong. The collapse was a huge disaster, and a tremendous tragedy to all involved. As with any disaster what was learned may be applied to other situations like it. One such situation would be to designs like the Hyatt Regency s walkway. Builders of walkways would know to not try to suspend the bridges with two bars instead of one long one, as explained earlier.
More general applications exist as well.
Perhaps the most important result from the collapse was a development of more stringent guidelines in the design of structures. Engineering and design failures like this one would not be allowed to happen again, and more stringent guidelines were developed. After this disaster, engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, etc. were inspected much more carefully, and the plans were examined more thoroughly. In general, engineers learned the hard way about how to support structures. They learned that one had to overcompensate when bracing structures.