20 Biggest Construction Mistakes in the World

The Sydney Opera House story is absolute crap! Yes, it went over time and budget. But that is all!

“Gallopin’ Girdie” was replaced by “Sturdy Girdie”.

My statics professor loved talking about that bridge!

The Silver Bridge would be another good discussion.

Now we want to know what is the status of those places today.

in defense of the fryscraper architects: who would have thought about the sun when building in london?

I was not able to find any info on the Archway collapse?? Can anyone help find info?

I'm surprised the Grande Arche de la Défense wasn't included, but perhaps the failing Carrera marble panel issue was too similar to the Chicago Aon Center story. The solution was the same: replace the marble slabs with granite.

The Québec Bridge collapses during its construction (1907 & 1916)

I wouldn’t go in a Chinese high rise

My grandpa was dancing with his friend on the hyatt regency walkway the day before it collapsed, and he rembered being a bit worried about the stability of the thing and wasnt so sure about stepping on to it in the first place.

If you're going to cover the Teton Dam disaster, you should probably use footage of, you know, the Teton Dam.

Uncool to show planned demolitions in a video about mistakes.

This video is weak, weak, weak...

total bull💩. the sydney opera house🤣🤣🤣🤣

The important question in this video is: Did any of the developers face execution for negligently killing so many people ?

A sportbem fald😢

Did anyone mention they cut corner?

Demolitions - really??? A collapse?

R.I.P fish

Greed that's why greed

In Piza the tower was saved with extensive grouting carried out by the same people that constructed the Jubilee Line extension on the London Underground, using the same technique to stabilise all the buildings along the route. Without it the clock tower housing "Big Ben" would have become the leaning tower of Westminster.

Porous rock in a DAM??! ARE YOU STUPID?!! Someone needs to take material science 101

8, 2 feet long... 🤔 are you serious?

The fact that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is still standing since 1173, is a testament to it's ingenuity, not failure.

You really start with the leaning tower of pizza?????? That would account for all the bullSh1t in the intro that are demolitions not construction failures. Good job dude, I lasted 1 minute 21 into your34minute video. Bye

the one that fell over I would turn I to an oddity housing make it stable and change the inside and wala

When I see an arch made in China, I'm thinking I wanna get on top of it because China's stringent safety standards are the best in the world.

For the Hard Rock Hotel collapse, the video refers to thinner steel beams as one of the causes contributing to the collapse then shows steel reinforcing bars (rebar) used to strengthen concrete. The thinner steel beams were actually steel I-beams and not rebar as shown.

This is why you don't ever want a DEI program in engineering.

Most of these disasters are resault of greed

Do you think it's just a disaster it's called the elite taking out who they do not want and you have the same people of the human errors take it out one of the people that you want are in it

No info about the arch in China at all. did CIA pay you enough??¿

This video is awfully repetitive. Check the audio levels near the end. The voiceover makes this more and more unbearable to listen to.

The tower of pisa has been standing for centuries. It was a mistake, but not a huge one. It is still standing and will outlive Elton John.

The Chinese arch? Ho hum, that sort of thing happens almost every single day in China. They build total crap, and their govt prevents all of these disasters, save a very few that get out from under their cover. Right now, the newest thing is that people are running over people in cars, again, almost every day, on purpose, including students in front of schools. It is a lovely place.

As for the collapsed walkway, the design WAS NOT altered in any way. The construction company took it upon themselves to make that modification, without notifying the structural engineers, and nobody caught the change in inspections, probably because at that time you would never have expected a crew to do something that damned stupid without notifying someone and getting the numbers crunched beforehand. At least that is what I remember from a talk I heard on the subject in school.

Re the Aon Center - Over the years, several buildings have been clad in marble and with the same result. Marble doesn't deal well with weather, and especially if made into thin panels it will deteriorate. Architects apparently don't talk to each other.....

Why are controlled demolitions in this video?😮

You say the same thing over and over, but just use different words that mean the same thing. I think this video could've run half the time it did.

The vasa. the engineers were NOT negligent. they tried to warn the king. but as kings are - arrogant. he ignored them and said do it anyway. and in that system. unless you wanna die. you do as the king says.

you say the Vasa was "ignoring issues" but the walkie talky was "an unforeseen issue"? wtf? any 9th grade student knows you you have a bent mirror it works as a magnifier. so this brain dead 'engineer' gets a pass?

Actually your video is not correct. The biggest construction mistakes are mostly happened in China. But it is difficult to get informations, because the CCP cover up all these events.

Now it turn out they gonna ALL gone across the country according the new just come in today (2-24-25)

I agree that Demolition of Cooling Towers with the closure of Thermal Gen. plants is a mistake.
John Hanekamp, a St. Louis-based coal industry consultant, stated that, “The incremental coal production in India and China is exceeding whatever coal-fired generation capacity that was retired in the US and Europe.
Whatever policymakers thought they were achieving by getting rid of coal, they’ve effectively done nothing but increase the cost of energy.”
“We haven’t changed anything but make ourselves energy poorer.”

Ships, as Vasa wasn't tested before they actually sailed. There were no blueprints at that time

Playing lil fast and loose with pics Aren't We?

St Francis dam collapse, Florida International University pedestrian walkway collapse. Should have covered those.