Originally Posted by
norty303
As a result of the State Fair collapse a few months back, the US is changing/has changed its regulations. Not sure what local regs are like in Canada.
There was a good discussion about it on Blueroom forum (theatre/technical oriented forum). In Europe/UK, it was generally felt that we had all the required controls in place which is why we see less of this sort of thing than elsewhere - although the argument could be that there are simply less gigs of the same scale.
To be honest, if you're erecting a faaaarcking great big structure like that, you'd really hope someone had the common sense to hire an engineer/someone qualified, regardless of whether any law requires it.