Every time I hear "without warning" in your videos, I yell at the screen. As a construction EHS Manager / Safety Inspector, I can assure you ... there are hundreds of warnings, in the building processes, the building itself, the inspection documents & processes, the team cultures, recordkeeping, etc etc etc. My wife knows that I absolutely hate being right in predicted industrial and construction assessments, but nonetheless, I'm at 100% "success" rate at predicting accidents and construction failures. Most teams with half a brain can identify all the leading indicators. It's just a horrible combination of greed, laziness and apathy that results in every single event. The saddest component in every tragic event is that there are ALWAYS those pointing out these indicators, they're just too often people who are not in positions of influence or authority, so they can be ignored.
Jason, I fully agree with you. Qualified people such as engineers can and do identify the problem which, if not fixed, will result in a major collapse. Too often, the "people in charge" are more concerned with the cost of making the repairs but they don't care much about the result of not making the repairs. Just look at the apartment complex in Florida. A lot of people lost their lives and the damage is still under evaluation. I suspect, the only way to actually fix this issue is to send the money changers to prison and take all their assets to reimburse the people who were injured or killed.
I know about the sand and clay issue. Where I live, bedrock is between 5,000 and 8,000 feet underground. Everything is held by soil... wet soil. If I dig a 3 foot hole, it has water in it half the year. Peers need to be very deep if there is any weight on it. 60 to 80 feet deep for a one story tank is normal for peers.
I think when he says without warning he means the occupants. Not necessarily the people being notified of these issues but people that would generally be unaware due to lack of knowledge. Like the shoppers in that department store for instance...
Here to agree with Amyschild I'm certain he means the occupants didn't have warning. I know when I enter a structure, I expect it to be safe and not break apart with me inside, so if a building collapsed I certainly wouldn't have warning. You are correct, though. No accident happens in a vacuum. There are ALWAYS multiple factors feeding into it, and I do applaud the work of safety inspectors like yourself. Tragedies happen when people like you are ignored, and I feel like the word of a safety inspector should carry a LOT more weight than it does. That said, I do hope you record your conversations with those in charge, so when something happens with one of the buildings you raised flags on, you have proof that you told the people in charge!
@@amyschildgamerlive4519 yeah, came here to say this, I'm pretty certain the occupants wouldn't have much of a clue tbh! So yeah, without warning to them as far as they knew! So OP can stop yelling at your screen lol
i was on a volunteer recovery crew for the 9-11 towers. think: thousands of body parts buried, crushed and scattered. the sidewalks were all brown from dried blood.
The Oroville dam spillway did not wear thin. It was used very little in its lifetime. It was built using substandard construction methods, and did not properly deal with the weak material underlying the slope it was built on. This all caused cracks that allowed water to get under the slabs of concrete and lift them out of place, causing the spillway failure.
An engineer did a very good video report on the construction and the remediation of the spillway problems as well as the erosion issues for the emergency spillway. The cost of repairs was expensive but geologic issues which were not discovered when the dam was built were discovered during the repair program. Expensive yes, but it has done the job of protecting the people downstream. Search here on UA-cam for the video.
@@MIIIVideo If you had you would have known that water, under pressure, can do some serious damage either by positive direct pressure or by negative pressure pulling on panels of concrete. This is the same force you would find causing lift over a airplane wing. The water can travel so fast that it creates vacuum pockets called cavitation which pull at the underlying surface with some considerable force thus tearing it apart. Therefore the water was both pulling and pushing at the spillway tearing it apart.
FYI, and in case you missed my other reply -- Mr. Coatsworth did try to get Tubby off the bridge. But Tubby was berserk with fear, and Coatsworth was unable to get ahold of him.
They say that they destroyed glencairn tower because it would cost too much to refurbish it but the truth was that the council let all the drug addicts move in to the tower and caused mayhem in the place. They broke into nearly everyone else’s flats. I know that because I lived there for 2 years in 2004-2006. In the first 6 months my flat got broken into 3 times and everything was stolen. PC’s,games consoles, tv’s they even stole a mirror off the wall and the food out the refrigerator. It used to be an amazing place to stay before all the scum of Lanarkshire got put into it.
There's a "Death Ray" building at 20 Fenchurch Street (UK). It melted the pavement and sides of buildings on the other side of the street. They had to put up a sort of netting, over the windows, to redirect direct sunlight from creating the lensing effect.
@@neilprice513 Really!!! It melted the pavement??? I live in Melbourne, Australia and, as you no doubt know, we have VERY hot summers. It gets up to 45 degrees Celsius some days. Well, some genius decided that it would be a terrific idea to have METAL SEATS right in the sun!!! LOL 😅! Of course, the only problem is that they get hot enough to fry eggs on them 🤣!!! Yes, Australia is full of geniuses!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tubby was the dude's daughter's dog. He left him in the car, but another guy risked it and ran BACK to try to retrieve the terrified animal. After being bit and unable to get a hold of Tubby, the guy was forced to leave him and run for his own life.@@nicres
@@nicres To his credit, Mr. Coatsworth tried to get Tubby out of the car and to safety. But Tubby was berserk with fear and Coatsworth was unable to get ahold of him.
The opening statement about some of America's bridges being "really old" then says "before 1970" actually made me laugh out loud. I live in the UK where we have "before 1870" suspension bridges, and I can walk to a couple of 800 year old bridges from my house.
That's just it there is proven ways to build that can last over 1,000 yrs, but nowadays these idiots we let govern us try & get fancy with building schools, high rises & everything in between & ends up costing hundreds of millions instead of just building a good solid building that would cost at least half if not more & actually not have to keep putting millions into it every year to keep it from falling apart. And the same goes for Developers, just arrogant people trying to get themselves noticed for building a stupid-looking building.
America declared independence in 1776. The industrial revolution started around the 1870s anything built before than compared to after are in totally different categories. Not to mention cars didn't become common for the masses until the Early 20th century at least in the US, the UK was still too poor and elitist...
As a native Bostonian I remember the Hancock fiasco well. Since it was situated right in the middle 4 major streets that carried traffic into the Back Bay and downtown, this meant that people and cars had to go blocks around to get through. If you have never driven in Boston remember that the original streets were cow paths and cows are not famous for walking in straight lines, so getting around meant wriggling around through streets barely wide enough for one car. When you have 50,000 daily commuters coming in from that direction, or trying to get out, you can imagine what an enormous disaster this was.
@@thomashurley5388 Plywood ranch😅 Some of these architects are just too pompous & snooty for their own good, at least in S.Korea & Japan you get to hear their public apologies & see the humiliation when shit hits fan, but the West doesn't do humiliation or taboo anymore.
Vdara management has considered various solutions but the challenge in overcoming the structural design problem is that the sun and its reflection are targets that constantly move during the day and as every season progresses. In the meantime, management has installed large blue umbrellas over the pool deck to protect bathers, while the hotel's glass exterior has been covered with non-reflective film.
A place where I used to work had a very large solar furnace which concentrated the suns rays just like the Vdara hotel. Of course the point of the focused rays is enough to send a thin beam of light burning through a 1/2 inch piece of plate steel. It boils water very quickly too.
Didn't anyone on the architectural or construction teams have any idea that this was going to happen? With the building facing the full sun every day, didn't even ONE person have figured out from the design plans that this was going to happen? By the age of 6, kids in my neighborhood had figured out that holding a cheap magnifying glass over ants on the sidewalk and concentrating the sunbeam through the glass could fry an ant in seconds. It didn't take a PhD to figure that out!
Seems like they should have put Solar collectors on the hot spots and called it a "forward thinking renewable energy project". Seems like the engineers weren't the only ones not doing their jobs. Where were the PR wonks?
I worked for a North American grocery chain whose head office was once based in California for all major decisions, store rebuilds and layout for example. I live in an area of Canada where the winter temps can dip to -50° for weeks on end, which should have been taken into consideration when a new store was built. Instead the Californian designers decided it wouldn't hurt to place the exit doors directly across from one checkstand and affect a couple others. Each winter we had cashiers working in 15 mins shifts on those tills, wearing parkas and boots, until the union stepped in and assisted in having them shut down. Eventually a remodel was done, and the affected checkstands were moved to the other end of the row, away from the doors.
Wouldnt the inspectors or city council or fire Marshall ( any of the 100s of people that had to ok some part of it) see the problems and shut it down? Isnt that why we have inspectors and codes for?
Need to do a story on the modernization of the aluminum smelter in Kitimat British Columbia. Bechtel cut so many corners that the plant literally has dozens of contractors on site just to repair everything as it's falling apart. Things started going south before they even finished
How did the Vegas hotel solve that problem? It would've been nice to know. Personally, I think they should've fenced in that "hot spot" and make it a tourist attraction, complete with a digital thermometer to display its rising temperature when that "magic moment" takes place - I'd pay a dollar to see that!
Dear Joe Strike, who would want to go there though??? LOL 😅 I was wondering if they could have put a barrier of some kind over the glass to prevent the glare and heat 🤣??? But I guess that would have looked pretty awful!!! Love from Amanda in Australia
It seems to me that the most expensive construction was the attempt to build real socialism in the Eastern Bloc. Over 70 years of efforts of several hundred million people, over 50 million died due to wrong assumptions, the the dried-up Aral Sea with its unique species, the land around Chernobyl closed virtually forever, and finally besprizornye plague. Civil and industrial engineers are tiny compared to social engineers.
16:33 Actually in this case, the disaster started three years prior to the collapse, when three giant ventilator units were dragged on the roof to a different position. One of the supporting columns was directly hit by the mass of the three machines and it started cracking up. A process sped up by the vibrations the ventillation units created each time they were turned on. On the day of the disaster crack finally revealed themselves, and only got worse until the whole construction fell apart.
@@YeahNo The Seconds From Disaster one (on YT) dating back to May 20, 2015 titled "Seconds From Disaster: Sampoong Department Store Collapse". The absolute best explanation and recreation of events leading up to the disaster.
What also added to the disaster is during construction of the building, the diameter of the support columns were reduced to make more floor room and it was never report the change in public record. This reduction reduces the load it could handle but all future changes were using the designed numbers.
That last one. . . "An ugly blight upon the landscape." Yes, that's what the Council thought of it. What many rich people thought of those tower blocks. Well, the landscape sure looks much nicer now. And all it cost were the only homes that many impoverished citizens had known all their lives, and could afford. But oh my, doesn't that landscape look sooo much better now.
I lived in a tower block for 9 years in the early 80's and it was well maintained and a spacious and comfortable place to live. It was ideal for single people or couples with no children. Plus it was affordable. Councils hated them though and refused to maintain and upkeep them, and eventually they became slums that needed to be demolished. They sold the land to private companies who built expensive houses on the land which housed a tiny fraction of the people they displaced. Now there is a critical housing shortage and people wonder why everyone had a home 30 and 40 years ago, and that's why.
At the time, the temporary wood panels replacing Boston's Hancock building's windows until they could be upgraded gave the building the nickname "the Plywood Palace."
As I started watching this I was wondering if the Champlain Towers condo would be included. I was born and raised in Miami and I currently live just 15 mins from this site. I did not know anyone currently living in the building when it came down but I used to. I used to have an aquarium business. I installed and maintained aquariums all over SE Florida and between 2000 and 2003 I had a customer in that building. I have been in the building nearly every month for those 3 years to service a customers aquarium. I forgot the unit number but their condo had a perfect view of the ocean and beach so I believe it was in the section that collapsed. It was such a beautiful building inside, you would never know what was going to happen in 2021. I was never in the garage though, I would park on the side of the building and go through the service entrance and use the service elevator. Also, not just Champlain south had a parking garage under the units....nearly every condo building on the beach has the same exact parking type. The problem with Champlain south was poor maintenance. During the super high tides the garage would flood with seawater so there were big pumps. But the pumps were old and breaking down and in a few high tide floods the water (salt water) was so deep in the garage that the cars were floating around. That combined with the poor maintenance and water proofing of the pool deck which is directly over the garage caused massive water penetration into the structure. The first thing to go was the pool deck, the pool deck collapsed into the garage and when this happened it took a few of the main load supporting pillars which brought down the building.
another problem was the condo owners upgrading their units with materials that weighed tons which put extra pressure on the building itself. Poor maintenance did the rest.
It also had an extra floor added on with no additional strengthening, as well as all the planters that they had installed on the pool deck area had blocked the drains. Complete recipe for disaster.
From what you have mentioned about these projects, a lot of these mistakes could have been easily avoided but greed got in the way. As well as crappy safety regulations.
architect design the buildings but the ppl who want it built have to say yes or no to the design. some student accomadation was built near me and it looks like someone just painted shipping containers all colour's of the rainbow and dropped them on top of each other and put windows in them. University paid for that and the locals hate it but the uni wont do anything about it as it was designed by the students. Looks even worse than the MIT 1.
Oh, yeah. I heard about the Surfside condo collapse after my grandma showed it to me on the news in 2021. When I saw that, I was shocked at how this happened, possibly because it was built on either sand or some of other weak terrain. I kinda thought at the time after hearing the story, and even to this day, it could’ve been improper construction of those condos.
Jeez! Those are some extremely costly mishaps. Any mistake for an architect could result in tragedy, both costly in money and in human life. It’s important for architects to strive to be perfect as the lives of many are in their hands.
I just want to add about the Sampoong Disaster (as also seen on Seconds To Disaster), the main reason for the collapse was that on the rooftop the owner had three heavy duty commercial airconditioning unit (because their was a summer that was unbearable for the employees and the shoppers) Unfortunately, workers pushed the heavy duty commercial airconditioning units to move to the other side...instead of using a crane to move it without damaging the infrastructure. Then the manager would turn the airconditioning on and off (since the units were too noisy) until cracks slowly formed (and sunk) one of the supporting beams in a traditional Korean restaurant below where the airconditioning units were.
Sorta like that sweatshop in Bangladesh where the owner installed a huge,heavy genny on the roof which dropped the building on a few hundred sewing machine operators.
@@lawrenceiverson1924 - that was also featured on Seconds To Disaster, the owner (who was a youth leader of the right wing gov't) illegally added another floor thus changing it from a commercial building to an industrial building
I live in Florida, so I'm only familiar with the Champlain Towers story. If you haven't heard of this tragedy, most of the residents were asleep in their beds when suddenly, the face of the main tower collapsed. One man, who lived in one of the other towers, described being awakened by a roaring type of sound outside. He and his wife jumped up, thinking it was a storm, perhaps a hurricane, blowing through so he made his way to the sliding doors to bring in their outdoor furniture. What he saw from his balcony was the tower that his parents lived in, partially crumbled to the ground. Knowing that his parents lived on the front side of the building, he shouted to his wife, something like, 'They're gone! My parents are gone!' There were so many heartbreaking stories about those whose lives were lost in and even survived the Champlain Towers. But that man's recount of the horrific event, I will never forget.
You should make more of these! For the South Korea one my dad when he was young decided to go to that mall, but he went to the washroom. When he finally went there the building collapsed right in font of him.
@24:45 -- I've always said those glass walkways are dangerous. I don't care how thick the glass, it only takes one small crack to weaken its integrity. Anyone who's had their car's windshield crack knows what I mean.
he glass walkways are made of tempered glass. It doesn't crack -- it instantly shatters into small pieces about the size of peas. Your car's windshield is different -- it's two layers of glass with a layer of stretchy plastic laminated in between.
@@williamwallace9826 It's clear from the sledgehammer stunt that they use layered safety glass, not tempered glass. Precisely because it _doesn't_ shatter.
@10:22, Sway? When I enter some 2+ deck malls, I feel the floors sway. I avoid these malls just on principle. I don't feel secure. @19:40, Tourists would love to visit North Korea, especially since Harris made them allies. BUT... NK government discourages tourists.
Im not taking no lose. Im leaning in my apartment. Lot of money lost and not much to show for it. Could have been used for so much more. Was fun to watch. Great video
❤❤ There was a 3 or 4 story building on market st. in Corning N. Y. When it was built, it was designed for the Executives of Corning Glass and included a swimming pool on the top floor. My father once told me that the architect did not take into consideration the weight of the water to fill it. Nice pool with no water. This had to of happened in the first half of the 1900's. I lived there from 1963 on and the buildings were very old then.
I think the "biggest mistake" has to go to the incident with the biggest loss of life. You just can't compare a building demolition with an occupied building collapse. So I would have to say the Sampoon building in South Korea was the biggest mistake.
Considering the owner and management were warned and didn't evacuate the people when problems were obvious, they should have gone to prison for a long time. Their greed is the only reason those people died. Also, the owners and managers of the apartment building that didn't repair what everyone knew needed repaired.
Sampoon was even worse then discribed: First it was build for housing, then it was changed to commercial Space. There was the first Swapp of the Architecture Team. But they still built it with the minimum required 20% Safety margin, before it had a healthy 50-60%. But it was Constructed without A/C. And the A/C was situated on the West wing, togehter with a large Restaurant space, which had a double floor traditional seating pits. And that's the Reason why the West wing crashed: Restaurant + A/C for the whole complex added several hundred Tons on a structure which was already at it's weight limit. Of course the second Team left the remark not to add additional Weight, but that was ignored.
@@Elkarlo77 That brings up the other subject; is it appropriate to cal it a mistake at all? It was 100% CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. This was a crime scene. And I don't just mean after it collapsed.
@@Robert08010 And that is what the judges said. 7 Years for the Son of the Owner as he was the CEO of the Mall, 2 1/2 Years for the Owner and a dozend offizials which should not have allowed the AC went into prison.
"That's still not enough" Well, apparently Lee Joon served seven years in prison for his negligence, and the prison life/stress served kill him shortly after release from health issues. So it seems the universe agreed with you.
I love that bridges in America are apparently considered old if they were built before 1970, where as in Britain there are bridges older than the founding of America that aren’t old enough to be considered historic artefacts.
@@barryhessel6078 The knowledge hasn't been lost its just that the focus shifted to cost Back then kings created structures to leave a legacy of their reign, cost be damned, because the labor was essentially free anyway. Nowadays politicians approve structures by committee for all kinds of political considerations but especially budget. The engineers themselves are smarter than ever, but it's hard to convince people that an extra few million in taxes for a longer lasting infrastructure is worth the investment.
@@barryhessel6078 I wonder if those people in 'old times' would be able to build a bridge that could cope with modern car and truck traffic at rush hour or with earthquakes or high bridges big enough for today's ships to pass under or bridges spanning the great distances bridges cover now. Ummm... I think not. Or they would have.
Thank you for your expert information ! I have always that whether it is an earthquake, a volcano eruption, or a building with defects, there are always signs of catastrophe before hand . One just needs the expertise to read the signs.
Have you seen the history of terrible locomotives. They built 3 M-1 steam turbines before they realized the engineering of the units only worked better then a horse shot in the legs.
"The Hancock" in Boston is 62, not 100, stories. As it was going up and the windows kept popping out and replaced with plywood , it was sarcastically known as Plywood Ranch after a lumber store in MA. Also, if you came down Huntington Ave towards the building at the "wrong" time of day, the glare was pretty blinding!
@@jasontempest4233 lol yeah most of these 'did you know' videos aren't exactly done by historians or engineers, they're youtubers. They likely just google up a bunch of things then put their own spin on them for hype lol, till a comment like the above comes along 😂 ahh well it doesn't really make much difference though, it's only a bit of free pointless entertainment lol
When you started with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge I couldn't help but laugh! I grew up crossing that (rebuilt) bridge regularly to visit grandparents and most people in the area know the story. Of course it was rebuilt to be better, and now two bridges exist to handle the massive increase in traffic. There is a toll to head eastbound to pay for the massive project. I wonder if that guy's car is still at the bottom of Puget Sound...
I watched Glencairn Tower come down and the site is now filled with more low-cost housing. great to see a local Scottish building featured on this channel though!
Oroville Dam is not the tallest dam in the US. It is specifically the tallest earthfill dam. I got to work in Oroville during the response and recovery projects. Was an awe inspiring experience.
Interesting information but you might expand a little more on the facts. The Vdara hotel is part of the City Center complex made up of numbers of hotels. The Vdara was around 527 million by itself in construction costs with the 8.5 Billion making up the cost of the massive city center group of properties as a whole.
The Tacoma Narrow bridge was replaced with a very similar, but stable bridge that still stands. There is now a second bridge next to it to handle the increased traffic of the area.
One of the freakiest things that ever happened to me was driving to Washington DC for the 1st time since I was a kid - and seeing *two* Delaware Memorial bridges! In the years since my first trip they built a second, identical bridge to handle increased traffic - I was not prepared for that!
I remember how bad the traffic would back up from the Narrows Bridge on holidays and often in the evenings, as commuters went home. I also remember one evening, as a child, coming back from visiting my uncle in Ollala, and watching the bridge sway back and forth in a high wind, as my parents discussed it in the front seat. We ended up going back to my uncle's to spend the night, when they decided it wasn't safe to cross. This was back in the late 70's.
My late brother in law worked for Boston police back in the day (1973ish) and took me up to the top of the Hancock. Not only were the windows falling out (we witnessed one while driving down Boylston street in front of the church) but at the top with winds that day it was swaying 14 feet! Ya, kinda scary but honestly I hadn’t noticed it until my cup of soda was washing back and forth. The blizzard of 78 was brutal enough but with high winds downtown the streets around that building are wind tunnels! I worked in a restaurant and was transporting five gallon buckets of soups from the Boston to the Cambridge location when that wind swept the van sideways into a snowbank. You don’t know fun until you have to take public transportation (the T) home covered in beef barley and split pea soup head to toe! Oh yea, good times… not! ✌🏼😉
One of the other buildings in that complex had to be Demolished as well after it was half built as it had some serious design flaws that made it unusable.. They haven't put anything in its place other than walls to hide the hole for years now. I thought that was going to be the one on the list, first time I heard of the aria issue.
I just want to add that Block A of Highland Towers in Gombak, Malaysia, collapsed. I mention it because the reason for the collapse is engineering problems and natural occurrences such as soil erosion and water clogging. But I didn't say it was too expensive compared to all of those listed in this video.
I worked construction in this building in NYC that swayed so much that one could hear the toilet water splashing around in the bowl.. It swayed 12 feet in one direction making the total sway 24 feet.
You also have the Harmon tower in the same place that had to be torn down due to massive construction mistakes especially the plumbing... The plumbing moved about 6'-12' from top to bottom and that made tearing down the tower and building a new one cheaper and easier then fixing then fixing the bad plumbing and other shawdy work...
"A large number of bridges in the United States date from before 1970, some of them are declared inefficient". You have a problem. In France many bridges date from Roman times, and are perfectly functional.
@@KaitouKaiju In France currently (and in Europe in general) the bridges are financed in the same way as in the USA. And bridges are normally of decent quality...
15:37 There was more wrong with it's design. As mentioned the 5th floor was not part of the original plan, but the added weight of the massive airco's on the roof was also part of the problem. Plus ... the collums were to small for its strucute. One of the worst case of money over safety situations I know of.
In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, the architect of the Vdara Hotel and the "Walkie Talkie" in London, Viñoly said he anticipated the "death rays" from both buildings. So do his clients know this man is designing buildings that can kill people? Some sort of sick joke from the designer?
The owner of the Sampoong department store, Lee Joon, 73, was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison and his son, Lee Han Sang, 43, department store president, got 7 years. The victim’s families had wanted the death penalty.
Champlain Towers - "For problems that could have been fixed with $15 million of works, that's one unforgettable mistake" - Unforgettable and unforgivable.
@@chriss740 The "That" was about the guy being stranded on the bridge, and if he hadn't gotten onto the bridge he couldn't have gotten stranded up there.
EYE OPENER-I am a structural engineer and can relate to what could have gone wrong. Any new technology and new materials need test of time. Sudden introduction & adoption of New Challenges by designers to score over others can result in some miss of vital environmental factors. These videos are eye openers and a message to Structural Engineers * Say NO when need be .ZERO Compromise*.
The sharpest tool in the shed isn't the engineers, rather the innocent people who are the unwilling Guinea pigs of these disastrous construction mistakes.
With the Hancock building in boston, the windows popping out was a symptom of other issues and no fault of the windows. The architects failed to consider wind patterns. Wind would be concentrated, enter the lobby and "pressurize" the building which caused the windows to pop out. Even to this day, the entrance to the building is buffeted by strong winds 24x7. I remember at the time seeing about 30% of the windows boarded up. IIRC, they removed all the windows on a story or two as a bandaid to let the air out.
The same problem as the Vdara Hotel happened in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, albeit on a smaller scale. The officebuilbing I worked in was also shaped rounded, as the hotel. Also on middays it could and did destroy car interiors. In winter, during lunchbreak You could stand there and even with freezing temperatures enjoy de warmth of the sun. It is now the Hotel Park Inn Amsterdam. They added shades and prevented parking there!
Krakow's Szkieletor is a failure because it exists. An ancient city of Krakow, a former capitol of Poland, should have no skyscrapers at all, since they damage an original skyline of the Royar Castle of Wawel and church towers of the Old City. It should have been demolished or lowered to some 10 storeys, when it was a useless decaying skeleton in the ninetees. In Poland, Warsaw is a good location for skyscrapers, while Kraków should be first of all a place for preservation of tradition, oll architecture and art.
14:00 the depth of foundation is little to do with how stable the building is when unfavourable ground is beneath; its if foundation poles reaches either "dirt" that is solid enough to support the structure; or far more preferbly sediment rock. it is wholly other subject how far one has to dig (or rather, drill or everyone's favourite, bang their way to it) to reach nessessary deph and by itself how deep the poles infact reaches should never be used as "deep enough" indicator.
The Sampoong Building went down while I lived in S. Korea. Two girls survived and were in the basement weeks after collapse. I think both suffered kidney failure. The owners ran out without informing anyone in this Building. Not right. They were arrested and jailed. Bad as a bone.
Some of this could be avoided by using more classic or traditional architecture which is more attractive to me anyway. Some of these oddly shaped and curved buildings failed because these had never been attempted before leading to unforeseen problems.
Tubby was lost in the bridge collapse because he was paralyzed and could not walk on his own. Coatsworth left Tubby in the car, intending to return when the bridge settled down. That of course never happened. Rest in peace Tubby.
Every time I hear "without warning" in your videos, I yell at the screen. As a construction EHS Manager / Safety Inspector, I can assure you ... there are hundreds of warnings, in the building processes, the building itself, the inspection documents & processes, the team cultures, recordkeeping, etc etc etc. My wife knows that I absolutely hate being right in predicted industrial and construction assessments, but nonetheless, I'm at 100% "success" rate at predicting accidents and construction failures. Most teams with half a brain can identify all the leading indicators. It's just a horrible combination of greed, laziness and apathy that results in every single event. The saddest component in every tragic event is that there are ALWAYS those pointing out these indicators, they're just too often people who are not in positions of influence or authority, so they can be ignored.
Jason, I fully agree with you. Qualified people such as engineers can and do identify the problem which, if not fixed, will result in a major collapse. Too often, the "people in charge" are more concerned with the cost of making the repairs but they don't care much about the result of not making the repairs. Just look at the apartment complex in Florida. A lot of people lost their lives and the damage is still under evaluation. I suspect, the only way to actually fix this issue is to send the money changers to prison and take all their assets to reimburse the people who were injured or killed.
I know about the sand and clay issue. Where I live, bedrock is between 5,000 and 8,000 feet underground. Everything is held by soil... wet soil. If I dig a 3 foot hole, it has water in it half the year. Peers need to be very deep if there is any weight on it. 60 to 80 feet deep for a one story tank is normal for peers.
I think when he says without warning he means the occupants. Not necessarily the people being notified of these issues but people that would generally be unaware due to lack of knowledge. Like the shoppers in that department store for instance...
Here to agree with Amyschild
I'm certain he means the occupants didn't have warning. I know when I enter a structure, I expect it to be safe and not break apart with me inside, so if a building collapsed I certainly wouldn't have warning.
You are correct, though. No accident happens in a vacuum. There are ALWAYS multiple factors feeding into it, and I do applaud the work of safety inspectors like yourself. Tragedies happen when people like you are ignored, and I feel like the word of a safety inspector should carry a LOT more weight than it does.
That said, I do hope you record your conversations with those in charge, so when something happens with one of the buildings you raised flags on, you have proof that you told the people in charge!
@@amyschildgamerlive4519 yeah, came here to say this, I'm pretty certain the occupants wouldn't have much of a clue tbh! So yeah, without warning to them as far as they knew! So OP can stop yelling at your screen lol
I was a first responder in the surfside building collapse as a deputy. Worst disaster I have ever bore witness to in my life.
Certainly the worst thing to have happened in that area of Florida since Hurricane Andrew in '92.
One of the last states I would have wanted to experience such a tragedy.
@@prezidenttrump5171...the frick
i was on a volunteer recovery crew for the 9-11 towers. think: thousands of body parts buried, crushed and scattered. the sidewalks were all brown from dried blood.
@@prezidenttrump5171 let me rephrase, the fuck?
The Oroville dam spillway did not wear thin. It was used very little in its lifetime. It was built using substandard construction methods, and did not properly deal with the weak material underlying the slope it was built on. This all caused cracks that allowed water to get under the slabs of concrete and lift them out of place, causing the spillway failure.
yeah i know nothing about dams but water wearing concrete? that spill would need to be going 100 years nonstop probably more?
@@MIIIVideo Yes, you're right, you know nothing about dams.
An engineer did a very good video report on the construction and the remediation of the spillway problems as well as the erosion issues for the emergency spillway. The cost of repairs was expensive but geologic issues which were not discovered when the dam was built were discovered during the repair program. Expensive yes, but it has done the job of protecting the people downstream. Search here on UA-cam for the video.
@@1961casey wow, you can read!
@@MIIIVideo If you had you would have known that water, under pressure, can do some serious damage either by positive direct pressure or by negative pressure pulling on panels of concrete. This is the same force you would find causing lift over a airplane wing. The water can travel so fast that it creates vacuum pockets called cavitation which pull at the underlying surface with some considerable force thus tearing it apart. Therefore the water was both pulling and pushing at the spillway tearing it apart.
RIP to the dog 🐕
F😭
So long, Tubby. You will not be forgotten, buddy 😭
RIP tubby also his name will be remembered
FYI, and in case you missed my other reply -- Mr. Coatsworth did try to get Tubby off the bridge. But Tubby was berserk with fear, and Coatsworth was unable to get ahold of him.
Tell that to China and Vietnam
They say that they destroyed glencairn tower because it would cost too much to refurbish it but the truth was that the council let all the drug addicts move in to the tower and caused mayhem in the place. They broke into nearly everyone else’s flats. I know that because I lived there for 2 years in 2004-2006. In the first 6 months my flat got broken into 3 times and everything was stolen. PC’s,games consoles, tv’s they even stole a mirror off the wall and the food out the refrigerator. It used to be an amazing place to stay before all the scum of Lanarkshire got put into it.
Fun fact: the architect of the Vdara seems to have a history of "death ray" buildings. The absolute mad man.
Fun fact this isn’t a fun fact
There's a "Death Ray" building at 20 Fenchurch Street (UK). It melted the pavement and sides of buildings on the other side of the street. They had to put up a sort of netting, over the windows, to redirect direct sunlight from creating the lensing effect.
@@neilprice513 Really!!! It melted the pavement??? I live in Melbourne, Australia and, as you no doubt know, we have VERY hot summers. It gets up to 45 degrees Celsius some days. Well, some genius decided that it would be a terrific idea to have METAL SEATS right in the sun!!! LOL 😅! Of course, the only problem is that they get hot enough to fry eggs on them 🤣!!! Yes, Australia is full of geniuses!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@amandajones6481 Oh, I want to try that. Do you have the address?
@@amandajones6481 And kangaroos, don't forget the kangaroos, g'day mate! (& all that cliche Aussie stuff - Love back to you from the USofA!
Can we all take a moment to pay respects to Tubby?
RIP
Dude just left his dog?? Wtf
Tubby was the dude's daughter's dog. He left him in the car, but another guy risked it and ran BACK to try to retrieve the terrified animal. After being bit and unable to get a hold of Tubby, the guy was forced to leave him and run for his own life.@@nicres
R.I.P. Tubby
@@nicres To his credit, Mr. Coatsworth tried to get Tubby out of the car and to safety. But Tubby was berserk with fear and Coatsworth was unable to get ahold of him.
Poor dog
The opening statement about some of America's bridges being "really old" then says "before 1970" actually made me laugh out loud. I live in the UK where we have "before 1870" suspension bridges, and I can walk to a couple of 800 year old bridges from my house.
there's probably at least 1 bridge somewhere in the world that is at least 2,000 years old.
That's just it there is proven ways to build that can last over 1,000 yrs, but nowadays these idiots we let govern us try & get fancy with building schools, high rises & everything in between & ends up costing hundreds of millions instead of just building a good solid building that would cost at least half if not more & actually not have to keep putting millions into it every year to keep it from falling apart. And the same goes for Developers, just arrogant people trying to get themselves noticed for building a stupid-looking building.
@@Ranger97bc our $4 billion stadium will last a decade
America declared independence in 1776. The industrial revolution started around the 1870s anything built before than compared to after are in totally different categories. Not to mention cars didn't become common for the masses until the Early 20th century at least in the US, the UK was still too poor and elitist...
There's a saying in America. Things were built better in the old days. It sounds true in the UK and in other countries.
7:37 20th century,
Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"
21st-century
Frank Gehry "pass me a Doobie"😂
As a native Bostonian I remember the Hancock fiasco well. Since it was situated right in the middle 4 major streets that carried traffic into the Back Bay and downtown, this meant that people and cars had to go blocks around to get through. If you have never driven in Boston remember that the original streets were cow paths and cows are not famous for walking in straight lines, so getting around meant wriggling around through streets barely wide enough for one car. When you have 50,000 daily commuters coming in from that direction, or trying to get out, you can imagine what an enormous disaster this was.
During that time, it was given the nickname, "The Plywood Ranch" after a business specializing as a supplier of building materials.
@@thomashurley5388
Plywood ranch😅
Some of these architects are just too pompous & snooty for their own good, at least in S.Korea & Japan you get to hear their public apologies & see the humiliation when shit hits fan, but the West doesn't do humiliation or taboo anymore.
Love how consistent be amazed is with its video uploads
Keep it up boys
Really enjoy the content 🙏🏾
Same here
Just Polish for SKELETOR.AH, HA, HA HA!!!!.
M8, I haven’t been watching this channel for months and I had just returned. I got overwhelmed by the number of uploads this guy has.
I dislike his tone. "Everything I say is so intersting. I am so in love with myself. I'm such a snob."
Vdara management has considered various solutions but the challenge in overcoming the structural design problem is that the sun and its reflection are targets that constantly move during the day and as every season progresses. In the meantime, management has installed large blue umbrellas over the pool deck to protect bathers, while the hotel's glass exterior has been covered with non-reflective film.
Thank you!
A place where I used to work had a very large solar furnace which concentrated the suns rays just like the Vdara hotel. Of course the point of the focused rays is enough to send a thin beam of light burning through a 1/2 inch piece of plate steel. It boils water very quickly too.
Didn't anyone on the architectural or construction teams have any idea that this was going to happen? With the building facing the full sun every day, didn't even ONE person have figured out from the design plans that this was going to happen? By the age of 6, kids in my neighborhood had figured out that holding a cheap magnifying glass over ants on the sidewalk and concentrating the sunbeam through the glass could fry an ant in seconds. It didn't take a PhD to figure that out!
Seems like they should have put Solar collectors on the hot spots and called it a "forward thinking renewable energy project". Seems like the engineers weren't the only ones not doing their jobs. Where were the PR wonks?
@@2ndhandSue would those kids be able too look at plans of a building and firgure out this could happen, do you think?
I worked for a North American grocery chain whose head office was once based in California for all major decisions, store rebuilds and layout for example.
I live in an area of Canada where the winter temps can dip to -50° for weeks on end, which should have been taken into consideration when a new store was built.
Instead the Californian designers decided it wouldn't hurt to place the exit doors directly across from one checkstand and affect a couple others.
Each winter we had cashiers working in 15 mins shifts on those tills, wearing parkas and boots, until the union stepped in and assisted in having them shut down.
Eventually a remodel was done, and the affected checkstands were moved to the other end of the row, away from the doors.
muhahahahaha, union workers can't do anything themselves...
@@lucasrem seriously?! Are you Mr. Burns?
Wouldnt the inspectors or city council or fire Marshall ( any of the 100s of people that had to ok some part of it) see the problems and shut it down? Isnt that why we have inspectors and codes for?
@@lucasrem It was the union workers that shut the checkstand down.
Humans got cold at work. What should we do? Call a union. Call the inspector. Call the code man. Call for a heater and plug it in.
If a dog died from the first one, then I'd consider that a fatality.
Need to do a story on the modernization of the aluminum smelter in Kitimat British Columbia. Bechtel cut so many corners that the plant literally has dozens of contractors on site just to repair everything as it's falling apart. Things started going south before they even finished
You should make more of these! I personally love them!
Ye same!!
I love the Darwin ones
@@lizardkid666 YES
@@lizardkid666 And 1 in a million
Keep up bro we love the content
How did the Vegas hotel solve that problem? It would've been nice to know. Personally, I think they should've fenced in that "hot spot" and make it a tourist attraction, complete with a digital thermometer to display its rising temperature when that "magic moment" takes place - I'd pay a dollar to see that!
Dear Joe Strike, who would want to go there though??? LOL 😅 I was wondering if they could have put a barrier of some kind over the glass to prevent the glare and heat 🤣??? But I guess that would have looked pretty awful!!! Love from Amanda in Australia
Not sure what you do but I'm hoping your watching this at your marketing job 🤠
Are y'all stupid? Bunnings sells massive sun shades which could fix that issue for under $500 Aud
would have been for a hot dog stand,
I didn't look it up, but the easiest solution would be to replace the glass in the windows to a non-reflective glass.
bro, i reload after 2 seconds and there are over fifty comments, that's truly.. AMAZING-
Ye lol
That's 10 million+ strong!....lol
15k In 50 minutes
Be Amazed
*Slaps knee*
Losing a dog sounds like a fatality to me.
Typical American who eats burgers/chicken/fish sandwich every day.
It seems to me that the most expensive construction was the attempt to build real socialism in the Eastern Bloc. Over 70 years of efforts of several hundred million people, over 50 million died due to wrong assumptions, the the dried-up Aral Sea with its unique species, the land around Chernobyl closed virtually forever, and finally besprizornye plague. Civil and industrial engineers are tiny compared to social engineers.
Thank you for the constant stream of videos ❤️
Hi😍
Why the love eyes?
Pls make more of these for us we love them 🙃
Yes please
16:33 Actually in this case, the disaster started three years prior to the collapse, when three giant ventilator units were dragged on the roof to a different position. One of the supporting columns was directly hit by the mass of the three machines and it started cracking up. A process sped up by the vibrations the ventillation units created each time they were turned on.
On the day of the disaster crack finally revealed themselves, and only got worse until the whole construction fell apart.
Are we seeing scenes from the docudrama made about the collapse?
@@jsl151850b Which one? There’s a plethora.
@@YeahNo The Seconds From Disaster one (on YT) dating back to May 20, 2015 titled "Seconds From Disaster: Sampoong Department Store Collapse". The absolute best explanation and recreation of events leading up to the disaster.
What also added to the disaster is during construction of the building, the diameter of the support columns were reduced to make more floor room and it was never report the change in public record. This reduction reduces the load it could handle but all future changes were using the designed numbers.
@Oyamada13
As I recall they also added an extra floor.
That last one. . . "An ugly blight upon the landscape."
Yes, that's what the Council thought of it. What many rich people thought of those tower blocks. Well, the landscape sure looks much nicer now. And all it cost were the only homes that many impoverished citizens had known all their lives, and could afford. But oh my, doesn't that landscape look sooo much better now.
I lived in a tower block for 9 years in the early 80's and it was well maintained and a spacious and comfortable place to live. It was ideal for single people or couples with no children. Plus it was affordable. Councils hated them though and refused to maintain and upkeep them, and eventually they became slums that needed to be demolished. They sold the land to private companies who built expensive houses on the land which housed a tiny fraction of the people they displaced. Now there is a critical housing shortage and people wonder why everyone had a home 30 and 40 years ago, and that's why.
This highlights the important difference between architects and engineers- the former creates problems, the latter solves them.
You're clearly an engineer, if you believe that bullshit. Engineers cause at least as many problems as architects do.
At the time, the temporary wood panels replacing Boston's Hancock building's windows until they could be upgraded gave the building the nickname "the Plywood Palace."
As I started watching this I was wondering if the Champlain Towers condo would be included. I was born and raised in Miami and I currently live just 15 mins from this site. I did not know anyone currently living in the building when it came down but I used to. I used to have an aquarium business. I installed and maintained aquariums all over SE Florida and between 2000 and 2003 I had a customer in that building. I have been in the building nearly every month for those 3 years to service a customers aquarium. I forgot the unit number but their condo had a perfect view of the ocean and beach so I believe it was in the section that collapsed. It was such a beautiful building inside, you would never know what was going to happen in 2021. I was never in the garage though, I would park on the side of the building and go through the service entrance and use the service elevator. Also, not just Champlain south had a parking garage under the units....nearly every condo building on the beach has the same exact parking type. The problem with Champlain south was poor maintenance. During the super high tides the garage would flood with seawater so there were big pumps. But the pumps were old and breaking down and in a few high tide floods the water (salt water) was so deep in the garage that the cars were floating around. That combined with the poor maintenance and water proofing of the pool deck which is directly over the garage caused massive water penetration into the structure. The first thing to go was the pool deck, the pool deck collapsed into the garage and when this happened it took a few of the main load supporting pillars which brought down the building.
another problem was the condo owners upgrading their units with materials that weighed tons which put extra pressure on the building itself. Poor maintenance did the rest.
It also had an extra floor added on with no additional strengthening, as well as all the planters that they had installed on the pool deck area had blocked the drains. Complete recipe for disaster.
From what you have mentioned about these projects, a lot of these mistakes could have been easily avoided but greed got in the way. As well as crappy safety regulations.
if 'regulations' were all they're cracked up to be, either things will be fixed, or heads must roll.
It's all about the Holy Dollar.
@@andybilakshow260
13:45 Those buildings are not in São Paulo , but in the city of Santos 🙂
You nailed it! This video was both informative and entertaining, a rare combo
$996,000,000 mistake...but the Hancock sure is pretty. As for the MIT center...thank the good lord I've never set eyes on that monstrosity 😱
At the same time that the Hancock building was going thru this, 93 was becoming the highway that led to nowhere…Not a good time for Boston at all. Lol
added space on accident sorry. But truly a disaster lol!
@@1withego Really love the way you write your screen name...very cool!😎
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Hancock=Boa Hancock (I just was watching one piece)
Keep up the great content. You're literally the only top 10 style channel that has great info and great narration.
The MIT building wasn’t just the architects fault…. The plans had to have been approved…. Right?
They are usually signed off by another architect! LOL
architect design the buildings but the ppl who want it built have to say yes or no to the design.
some student accomadation was built near me and it looks like someone just painted shipping containers all colour's of the rainbow and dropped them on top of each other and put windows in them. University paid for that and the locals hate it but the uni wont do anything about it as it was designed by the students. Looks even worse than the MIT 1.
Amazing compilation, love this video
Oh, yeah. I heard about the Surfside condo collapse after my grandma showed it to me on the news in 2021. When I saw that, I was shocked at how this happened, possibly because it was built on either sand or some of other weak terrain.
I kinda thought at the time after hearing the story, and even to this day, it could’ve been improper construction of those condos.
Jeez! Those are some extremely costly mishaps.
Any mistake for an architect could result in tragedy, both costly in money and in human life. It’s important for architects to strive to be perfect as the lives of many are in their hands.
Yep exactly 💯
I just want to add about the Sampoong Disaster (as also seen on Seconds To Disaster), the main reason for the collapse was that on the rooftop the owner had three heavy duty commercial airconditioning unit (because their was a summer that was unbearable for the employees and the shoppers)
Unfortunately, workers pushed the heavy duty commercial airconditioning units to move to the other side...instead of using a crane to move it without damaging the infrastructure. Then the manager would turn the airconditioning on and off (since the units were too noisy) until cracks slowly formed (and sunk) one of the supporting beams in a traditional Korean restaurant below where the airconditioning units were.
Sorta like that sweatshop in Bangladesh where the owner installed a huge,heavy genny on the roof which dropped the building on a few hundred sewing machine operators.
@@lawrenceiverson1924 - that was also featured on Seconds To Disaster, the owner (who was a youth leader of the right wing gov't) illegally added another floor thus changing it from a commercial building to an industrial building
Nice video! Thank you for giving us all fun facts to learn about, they're always so different and interesting as well!
Also big thanks to you @Scoots20_Roblox for commenting here with us
@@williamthe4rd No problem!
I so happy you come and comment
“The world’s largest metaphor for a country” might just be the single most scathing remark about North Korea ever.
Great video, an eye opening for me. As I am always fascinated with great engineering, this video also made me think about the failures too.
Thank you.
I live in Florida, so I'm only familiar with the Champlain Towers story. If you haven't heard of this tragedy, most of the residents were asleep in their beds when suddenly, the face of the main tower collapsed. One man, who lived in one of the other towers, described being awakened by a roaring type of sound outside. He and his wife jumped up, thinking it was a storm, perhaps a hurricane, blowing through so he made his way to the sliding doors to bring in their outdoor furniture. What he saw from his balcony was the tower that his parents lived in, partially crumbled to the ground. Knowing that his parents lived on the front side of the building, he shouted to his wife, something like, 'They're gone! My parents are gone!'
There were so many heartbreaking stories about those whose lives were lost in and even survived the Champlain Towers. But that man's recount of the horrific event, I will never forget.
Didn't the developers/builders add on another floor that wasn't in the original architectural plans? The video didn't say anything about it.
You should make more of these! For the South Korea one my dad when he was young decided to go to that mall, but he went to the washroom. When he finally went there the building collapsed right in font of him.
Omg! I'll bet he _really_ needed the bathroom after that! So glad he survived!
@@y_fam_goeglyd agreed
@24:45 -- I've always said those glass walkways are dangerous. I don't care how thick the glass, it only takes one small crack to weaken its integrity. Anyone who's had their car's windshield crack knows what I mean.
he glass walkways are made of tempered glass. It doesn't crack -- it instantly shatters into small pieces about the size of peas. Your car's windshield is different -- it's two layers of glass with a layer of stretchy plastic laminated in between.
@@williamwallace9826 Still don't trust them. I also get vertigo very easily.
It looks like to me from the picture. That the man in the Jilin province. Could have use the side rails to climb on and made it to safely.
@@williamwallace9826 It's clear from the sledgehammer stunt that they use layered safety glass, not tempered glass. Precisely because it _doesn't_ shatter.
I am loving your videos. Liked & subscribed keep it up
@10:22, Sway? When I enter some 2+ deck malls, I feel the floors sway. I avoid these malls just on principle. I don't feel secure. @19:40, Tourists would love to visit North Korea, especially since Harris made them allies. BUT... NK government discourages tourists.
Im not taking no lose. Im leaning in my apartment. Lot of money lost and not much to show for it. Could have been used for so much more. Was fun to watch. Great video
❤❤ There was a 3 or 4 story building on market st. in Corning N. Y. When it was built, it was designed for the Executives of Corning Glass and included a swimming pool on the top floor.
My father once told me that the architect did not take into consideration the weight of the water to fill it. Nice pool with no water. This had to of happened in the first half of the 1900's. I lived there from 1963 on and the buildings were very old then.
I think the "biggest mistake" has to go to the incident with the biggest loss of life. You just can't compare a building demolition with an occupied building collapse. So I would have to say the Sampoon building in South Korea was the biggest mistake.
Considering the owner and management were warned and didn't evacuate the people when problems were obvious, they should have gone to prison for a long time. Their greed is the only reason those people died. Also, the owners and managers of the apartment building that didn't repair what everyone knew needed repaired.
Sampoon was even worse then discribed: First it was build for housing, then it was changed to commercial Space. There was the first Swapp of the Architecture Team. But they still built it with the minimum required 20% Safety margin, before it had a healthy 50-60%. But it was Constructed without A/C. And the A/C was situated on the West wing, togehter with a large Restaurant space, which had a double floor traditional seating pits. And that's the Reason why the West wing crashed: Restaurant + A/C for the whole complex added several hundred Tons on a structure which was already at it's weight limit. Of course the second Team left the remark not to add additional Weight, but that was ignored.
@@Elkarlo77 That brings up the other subject; is it appropriate to cal it a mistake at all? It was 100% CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. This was a crime scene. And I don't just mean after it collapsed.
@@Robert08010 And that is what the judges said. 7 Years for the Son of the Owner as he was the CEO of the Mall, 2 1/2 Years for the Owner and a dozend offizials which should not have allowed the AC went into prison.
@@Elkarlo77 I’m sure removing all of those pillars that gave structural support probably had something to do with it as well...
RIP Tubby 😢
I'm learning more watching UA-cam than going to school
"That's still not enough"
Well, apparently Lee Joon served seven years in prison for his negligence, and the prison life/stress served kill him shortly after release from health issues. So it seems the universe agreed with you.
Good
$157,000,000 gone in 45sec 🤯😢 it's not even my money but I feel so bad for whoever invested in it
I love that bridges in America are apparently considered old if they were built before 1970, where as in Britain there are bridges older than the founding of America that aren’t old enough to be considered historic artefacts.
People in old times knew how to build. It's a shame knowledge has been lost.
@@barryhessel6078 The knowledge hasn't been lost its just that the focus shifted to cost
Back then kings created structures to leave a legacy of their reign, cost be damned, because the labor was essentially free anyway. Nowadays politicians approve structures by committee for all kinds of political considerations but especially budget.
The engineers themselves are smarter than ever, but it's hard to convince people that an extra few million in taxes for a longer lasting infrastructure is worth the investment.
@@barryhessel6078 I wonder if those people in 'old times' would be able to build a bridge that could cope with modern car and truck traffic at rush hour or with earthquakes or high bridges big enough for today's ships to pass under or bridges spanning the great distances bridges cover now. Ummm... I think not. Or they would have.
Thank you for your expert information ! I have always that whether it is an earthquake, a volcano eruption, or a building with defects, there are always signs of catastrophe before hand . One just needs the expertise to read the signs.
The most expensive construction mistake was the construction of humanity.
TRUTH
How can someone make such an expensive mistake? Especially since it takes a lot of thought-out decisions (at least I thought so)
I don't know? (maybe because old)
Rushing engineers to complete work ASAP when they need more time for proper assessments
Have you seen the history of terrible locomotives. They built 3 M-1 steam turbines before they realized the engineering of the units only worked better then a horse shot in the legs.
@@JohnSmith-xv1xy Politics, greed, timeline, pride.... there are a lot factors involved.
@@siengthatep5278 All of those "factors" can be reduced to GREED!
"The Hancock" in Boston is 62, not 100, stories. As it was going up and the windows kept popping out and replaced with plywood , it was sarcastically known as Plywood Ranch after a lumber store in MA. Also, if you came down Huntington Ave towards the building at the "wrong" time of day, the glare was pretty blinding!
Thank you. That was the first thing that hit me. 100 stories.. what? Honestly, mistakes like that put a cloud of doubt over the entire video.
Pretty certain it only went to 60th floor. Which is also where the observation deck is. I used to work on 60 and there wasn't anything above it
Actually my bad. Since the cafe at ground level is two floors I guess floor 1 is the 3rd story. So 60th floor would be 62 stories.
@@jasontempest4233 lol yeah most of these 'did you know' videos aren't exactly done by historians or engineers, they're youtubers. They likely just google up a bunch of things then put their own spin on them for hype lol, till a comment like the above comes along 😂 ahh well it doesn't really make much difference though, it's only a bit of free pointless entertainment lol
27:02 I remember when this happened, especially since I live in Florida. It was a pretty grim day, along the 2 weeks following the day it collapsed.
When you started with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge I couldn't help but laugh! I grew up crossing that (rebuilt) bridge regularly to visit grandparents and most people in the area know the story. Of course it was rebuilt to be better, and now two bridges exist to handle the massive increase in traffic. There is a toll to head eastbound to pay for the massive project. I wonder if that guy's car is still at the bottom of Puget Sound...
BUT DUBBY!!
What about the poor dog? Talk about a selfish jerk.
Salute for his dog tubby
I watched Glencairn Tower come down and the site is now filled with more low-cost housing. great to see a local Scottish building featured on this channel though!
So sad about the innocent people who died because of these mistakes :(
Ef
Oroville Dam is not the tallest dam in the US. It is specifically the tallest earthfill dam. I got to work in Oroville during the response and recovery projects. Was an awe inspiring experience.
ugh no one cares likee stop talkig for hours with youre friends like BRUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIP Tubby you will forever remain a good boy!
Great video 👍
Interesting information but you might expand a little more on the facts. The Vdara hotel is part of the City Center complex made up of numbers of hotels.
The Vdara was around 527 million by itself in construction costs with the 8.5 Billion making up the cost of the massive city center group of properties as a whole.
What did they do to fix the Vdara 'death ray' problem?
@@giraffesinc.2193 They covered the entire pool area with a tent. Read for yourself on Wikipedia.
The Tacoma Narrow bridge was replaced with a very similar, but stable bridge that still stands. There is now a second bridge next to it to handle the increased traffic of the area.
One of the freakiest things that ever happened to me was driving to Washington DC for the 1st time since I was a kid - and seeing *two* Delaware Memorial bridges! In the years since my first trip they built a second, identical bridge to handle increased traffic - I was not prepared for that!
I remember how bad the traffic would back up from the Narrows Bridge on holidays and often in the evenings, as commuters went home.
I also remember one evening, as a child, coming back from visiting my uncle in Ollala, and watching the bridge sway back and forth in a high wind, as my parents discussed it in the front seat. We ended up going back to my uncle's to spend the night, when they decided it wasn't safe to cross. This was back in the late 70's.
In human costs, it's difficult to say the Grenfell Tower doesn't deserve inclusion
16:02 the original designer of that mall is my hero. he knew it was unsafe, and he lost his job because he was trying to prevent possible casualties
My late brother in law worked for Boston police back in the day (1973ish) and took me up to the top of the Hancock. Not only were the windows falling out (we witnessed one while driving down Boylston street in front of the church) but at the top with winds that day it was swaying 14 feet! Ya, kinda scary but honestly I hadn’t noticed it until my cup of soda was washing back and forth. The blizzard of 78 was brutal enough but with high winds downtown the streets around that building are wind tunnels! I worked in a restaurant and was transporting five gallon buckets of soups from the Boston to the Cambridge location when that wind swept the van sideways into a snowbank. You don’t know fun until you have to take public transportation (the T) home covered in beef barley and split pea soup head to toe! Oh yea, good times… not! ✌🏼😉
I remember that blizzard. First time I ever saw someone climb out a window in order to dig out the storm door.
The Vdara itself didn't cost $8.5 billion. That was the cost of the entire city center.
One of the other buildings in that complex had to be Demolished as well after it was half built as it had some serious design flaws that made it unusable.. They haven't put anything in its place other than walls to hide the hole for years now. I thought that was going to be the one on the list, first time I heard of the aria issue.
I just want to add that Block A of Highland Towers in Gombak, Malaysia, collapsed. I mention it because the reason for the collapse is engineering problems and natural occurrences such as soil erosion and water clogging. But I didn't say it was too expensive compared to all of those listed in this video.
What they need to do at that hotel is place a solar panel there and the concentrated energy could power that facility
Not feasible for
Who can forgive these mistakes?
I worked construction in this building in NYC that swayed so much that one could hear the toilet water splashing around in the bowl.. It swayed 12 feet in one direction making the total sway 24 feet.
You also have the Harmon tower in the same place that had to be torn down due to massive construction mistakes especially the plumbing... The plumbing moved about 6'-12' from top to bottom and that made tearing down the tower and building a new one cheaper and easier then fixing then fixing the bad plumbing and other shawdy work...
*shoddy
"A large number of bridges in the United States date from before 1970, some of them are declared inefficient".
You have a problem. In France many bridges date from Roman times, and are perfectly functional.
That just shows people in the past knew how to build things. Much better than today.
Well yeah, easy to get a sturdy bridge built when you don't have to do it by committee and can just throw the empire's funds at it
@@KaitouKaiju
In France currently (and in Europe in general) the bridges are financed in the same way as in the USA. And bridges are normally of decent quality...
15:37 There was more wrong with it's design. As mentioned the 5th floor was not part of the original plan, but the added weight of the massive airco's on the roof was also part of the problem. Plus ... the collums were to small for its strucute. One of the worst case of money over safety situations I know of.
Also a few of the execs saw jail time.
22:41 Percy Jackson has ruined me... I thought of Hoover dam and started laughing
20:45 They restarted construction of it though, I heard.
In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, the architect of the Vdara Hotel and the "Walkie Talkie" in London, Viñoly said he anticipated the "death rays" from both buildings. So do his clients know this man is designing buildings that can kill people? Some sort of sick joke from the designer?
[Archimedes laughing from his grave]
Vdara is absolutely hilarious. How could one not possibly take the hot desert sun into consideration
perhaps they could use it as a form of thermal energy, thats how csps work anyway.
The owner of the Sampoong department store, Lee Joon, 73, was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison and his son, Lee Han Sang, 43, department store president, got 7 years. The victim’s families had wanted the death penalty.
I would have given Lee Han Sang a life sentence. But for Lee Joon, the death penalty was what he deserved.
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@@raypitts4880 Well. Explain yourself.
Death penalty according to Hamurrabi's Law.
Champlain Towers - "For problems that could have been fixed with $15 million of works, that's one unforgettable mistake" - Unforgettable and unforgivable.
Not 6:10 a famous one, but when I know and have had the pleasure to come my grandfather 👴 is David Clark he helped to design the London eye 👁️
26:19
That could have been prevented if the bridge would have been closed when strong winds came closer!
The period in your sentence should be after the word "closed."
The bridge would collapse in high winds with or without cars on it.
@@chriss740
The "That" was about the guy being stranded on the bridge, and if he hadn't gotten onto the bridge he couldn't have gotten stranded up there.
Saw the Sampoon collapse on Brick Immortar. Just... wow.
And for the Hotel of Doom, yeah. There's a SCP in there.
I live in a small town in Alabama, and there is a bridge that is still in operation that is over 90 years old. It was built in 1930.
@@simonrobbins8357 Cool!
EYE OPENER-I am a structural engineer and can relate to what could have gone wrong. Any new technology and new materials need test of time. Sudden introduction & adoption of New Challenges by designers to score over others can result in some miss of vital environmental factors. These videos are eye openers and a message to Structural Engineers * Say NO when need be .ZERO Compromise*.
The sharpest tool in the shed isn't the engineers, rather the innocent people who are the unwilling Guinea pigs of these disastrous construction mistakes.
With the Hancock building in boston, the windows popping out was a symptom of other issues and no fault of the windows. The architects failed to consider wind patterns. Wind would be concentrated, enter the lobby and "pressurize" the building which caused the windows to pop out. Even to this day, the entrance to the building is buffeted by strong winds 24x7. I remember at the time seeing about 30% of the windows boarded up. IIRC, they removed all the windows on a story or two as a bandaid to let the air out.
Absolutely correct. I believe it was nicknamed The Plywood Mosaic.
The same problem as the Vdara Hotel happened in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, albeit on a smaller scale. The officebuilbing I worked in was also shaped rounded, as the hotel. Also on middays it could and did destroy car interiors. In winter, during lunchbreak You could stand there and even with freezing temperatures enjoy de warmth of the sun. It is now the Hotel Park Inn Amsterdam. They added shades and prevented parking there!
also happened in London
@@Gigidag77 I know!
@@Gigidag77 they had to put shuttering all over the front of 20 Fenchurch Street for that reason.
Krakow's Szkieletor is a failure because it exists. An ancient city of Krakow, a former capitol of Poland, should have no skyscrapers at all, since they damage an original skyline of the Royar Castle of Wawel and church towers of the Old City. It should have been demolished or lowered to some 10 storeys, when it was a useless decaying skeleton in the ninetees. In Poland, Warsaw is a good location for skyscrapers, while Kraków should be first of all a place for preservation of tradition, oll architecture and art.
14:00 the depth of foundation is little to do with how stable the building is when unfavourable ground is beneath; its if foundation poles reaches either "dirt" that is solid enough to support the structure; or far more preferbly sediment rock. it is wholly other subject how far one has to dig (or rather, drill or everyone's favourite, bang their way to it) to reach nessessary deph and by itself how deep the poles infact reaches should never be used as "deep enough" indicator.
@28:14, you say the Champlain Tower fell on June 21st, 2021, but the video captions it "07/21/2021". Also, it fell on June 24th, 2021.
The Sampoong Building went down while I lived in S. Korea. Two girls survived and were in the basement weeks after collapse. I think both suffered kidney failure. The owners ran out without informing anyone in this Building. Not right. They were arrested and jailed. Bad as a bone.
I wonder if the original designer said 'I told you it was unsafe!'
@@DAYNURSERY Possibly.
Some of this could be avoided by using more classic or traditional architecture which is more attractive to me anyway. Some of these oddly shaped and curved buildings failed because these had never been attempted before leading to unforeseen problems.
24:08 I thought bed rock was unbreakible.. ohhhhhhhh that does..ent make sense
That’s only Minecraft
@@Trainboi1983 we are in MINECRAFT
Tubby was lost in the bridge collapse because he was paralyzed and could not walk on his own. Coatsworth left Tubby in the car, intending to return when the bridge settled down. That of course never happened. Rest in peace Tubby.
Sooo good love your vids