12 Engineering Mistakes That Turned Out Not to Be Fails

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Not every finished product resembles the blueprint it was based on. Sometimes mistakes are made. Sometimes plans have to be changed. Often, an engineer will finish creating something only to realize that there’s a big problem with their design - one that they never thought of before they started building! Sometimes a mistake like this will doom a construction project completely, but other times they’ll turn out to be happy little accidents - like all the incredible engineering calculations you’re about to see in this video!
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[@bobdole4916]

None of this sounds like mistakes that turned out not to be fails. They sound like fails that were able to be corrected, and not even all of them were corrected.

[@e1123581321345589144]

Except the Chinese monorail. That's not a fail, nor a mistake, just a curiosity.

[@Milesco]

Bob Dole is exactly right. (Although I agree that the Chinese monorail that goes through the apartment building is an exception. In fact it's not a fail at all; it's just an interesting oddity.)

[@speedstick8981]

About the train running through the highway, I believe I have a solution for that problem. I call it: *BUILD A FUCKING BRIDGE!*

[@infinic5579]

That's what the title says

[@carinedemolin5720]

The walkie talkie was a fail in the way they didn't anticipate it would reverberate sunlight the way it does. It is still considered a fail in that respect.

[@deejaaay7600]

How about: “12 engineering fails and 1 title fail?”.

[@TheTomco11]

How about "A couple of engineering fails, a load more management, spending, and political fails, and an ignorant creator"

[@deejaaay7600]

@@TheTomco11 Much better!

[@lesleibrooks7850]

how about no. hehe

[@deejaaay7600]

@@lesleibrooks7850 HoW aBoUt No HeHe.

[@drakemayer9197]

Tell me how the train track through the highway was “not a fail” it literally had to be removed because it was so unsafe

[@Zeusandapollo33]

It's fake

[@PingingVoid]

@@Zeusandapollo33 It is not

[@Zeusandapollo33]

@@PingingVoid yes it is, go watch captain disillusion if you need an explanation

[@PingingVoid]

@@CouchPotator same. I saw what he was talking about a while ago, but its hard to find which video

[@mammadfy]

Well if you're talking about the one from Baku, trains did not emerge from nowhere at that intersection. There was a traffic light and signals, plus it was very rare. That line used to come from the sea port. It wasn't a regular railway line.

[@marzolian]

Interesting stories but bad title. Most of these are still failures, it's just that people tolerate them.

[@pancho3832]

Wow

[@mpred8606]

@Voltaic Fire well uhhhhhhh I guess like you as well

[@redemption2901]

I wouldn't call it tolerate welp maybe some but some just don't remember don't care or didn't even know if it was a failure why would some people not even know I really wouldn't call most of these failures

[@user-wx8vx1nz1l]

agreed

[@jamesm.m1175]

Thought so too

[@rachelcookie321]

Fun fact: I live in New Zealand and one of my friend’s grandads installed the elevators on the Sydney Opera house and peed on the roof.

[@zanethriel]

That was a political statement?

[@diemight7591]

@@zanethriel Nah, mate prob just needed a piss

[@TheBrownAsianGuy]

Let me write this down

[@randominionfun5433]

I’m gonna go look and I’m looking for a piss stained spot on the roof

[@thomasr1072]

this is the content i didnt know i needed

[@multibrandan]

That last one literally takes this song line “Our house, in the middle of the street” to a super literal level. Lol.

[@brandonvinson8371]

Our*

[@multibrandan]

Brandon Vinson Didn’t notice that. Thanks.

[@multibrandan]

J Allen Hmmmmmm that’s interesting to think about. Interesting point.

[@bogdanradosavcev3362]

@J Allen He didnt get the price he wanted, He was forced out

[@Hi_Brien]

I thought it was "our house, in the middle of our house, in the middle of our house, in the middle of our house, in the middle of our house"

[@xipheonj]

For a video about Engineering your title is baffling misleading. It should be "10 Engineering Mistakes That Were Fixed, +2 Fun Engineering Stories" What you wrote implies happy accidents where the mistakes ended up being good things that worked out better than the original plan. Not even one fit that criteria.

[@502RetailPartners]

"...all done @ 720p, even in the era of 4K"

[@davidt01]

Thanks for the heads up.

[@kriskringle6298]

Jeff Scott Bet you’re a lot of fun at parties

[@maxnovakovics2568]

Yep, clickbaited and down thumbed

[@xipheonj]

@@kriskringle6298 I am actually, thanks for noticing!

[@totifernandez9532]

For the Thai market.Usually the rail line was there first. Then people and markets lined the sides because they want to sell to the passing passengers, or simply because it is government land they can squat on. This is not an engineering mistake. It is a result of government corruption and non-enforcement of the rules.

[@yash1152]

yeah, exactly. not all of the things in this vid are engineering mistakes. also the last one too (houses on street in china) i think

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

From what i understand its futile to try and enforce the vendors leaving, both because they or others will replace them or come back, and because theres just too many people. As long as no one gets hurt (too often lol) I cant imagine it makes sense to hurt a bunch of people's income anyway? Im no expert on the matter, just have read/heard some things about it, but its def not an engineering issue lol

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

@Round like a Ball Aw has it? That sucks. Hope the sellers have found a similarly financially beneficial place to set up shop.

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Internet sources say its still around, but I am not Thai so who knows.

[@JC-ks3yk]

RE: The Hancock Tower. The windows didn't fall because they were improperly secured but because they were too rigid to deal with issues related to the difference in pressure inside the building versus outside and they got sucked out of their frames or simply shattered in place. It's still an engineering problem, but clarity counts. The swaying was fixed by the use of a tuned mass damper which deserves its own video.

[@igostupidfast3]

I figured a damper would fix the issue

[@aaronwatkins8973]

I think they confused Hancock buildings when talking about the iconic Xs that obviously are not present on the Boston building.

[@pjokap]

Also, every year a panel or window or two drops off of building in the Loop.

[@philperry4699]

The building twisted in the wind, and rigidly-mounted glass panels popped out or shattered. Nothing to do with pressure inside vs. outside. It was fixed with the mass damper reducing the twisting. The alternative was to tear down the whole building, which had been declared a fire hazard due to all the plywood replacing missing windows!

[@OMM1934]

Aaron Watkins they were talking about the Hancock building in Chicago... pretty sure they even used shots in Chicago when looking out the top of the building.

[@leehautapu5916]

First story is rubbish and misleading. There are no international flights to Australia from Gisborne Airport. No trains or plane cross paths at any time due to timetables!

[@biponacci]

No trains run there at all anymore, the line between Napier and Gisborne was damaged around 10 years ago and has never been repaired. Only the Gisborne City Vintage Railway operates there now, three times a year if you’re lucky. Either way the trains actually need clearance from ATC before crossing the runway.

[@neilharrison76]

lets not let the truth ruin a good story

[@biponacci]

@@neilharrison76 Don't mean to be condescending but was it really a good story to begin with? I think the more fascinating part is how something like that would actually work.

[@YoungGamer101]

Robert Carpenter The narrator clearly stated there are flights to Australia. Maybe it's you who didn't listen.

[@robertthomson1587]

@@biponacci It works because the trains are stopped by signals that are operated by the air traffic controllers. The trains cannot cross the runway until they're given clearance. Pretty simple really.

[@wtechboy18]

The building with the train running through it was specifically designed so that the train rail is totally separate from the building. They did this specifically to prevent vibrations and whatnot from messing with the building or tenants.

[@KaiHenningsen]

Walkie-talkie problems were unforeseeable? As far as I remember, the same architect had built a similar building elsewhere with very similar problems, so ... (and in any case, they involved no new physics or kind of weather, so they would have _still_ been foreseeable even if this building would have been unique).

[@kaldo8907]

Should also be foreseeable by any architect who know what a parabola is. Which should be most of them.

[@arson2925]

I studied architecture back in college and I can attest that architects should study these elements when designing a building (i.e. wind currents, sun etc) Obviously, the architect was sleeping when it was discussed in college lol.

[@kateemma22]

You’re right. He also designed the Vdara in Vegas with its own personal ‘Vdara death Ray’.

[@johnberry5275]

The John Hancock Tower had two Tuned-Mass Dampers internally installed. Essentially, they act like pendulums that counteract the building's tendency to sway. The trick is to have the Tuned-Mass Dampers consume/rob motional energy at a very precise rate, so as to always make the building tend towards positional stability. Textbooks, written on the topic of Differential Equations, often love to examine the relevant equations that pertain to the design of these particular Tuned-Mass Dampers.

[@Lurkily_Esh]

"Engineering projects that turned out not to be fails." "This railroad crossed a highway. There was nothing good about this. It had no redeeming features. The internet learned about it, and they removed the railroad after worldwide humiliation. Things are better now that this total and complete fail is gone."

[@acurtis851]

and the Marble falling from the building? or the glass falling off the other? Both are pretty big fails.

[@josemarionate8905]

So confused after hearing this

[@Ja3k1]

I live in Gisborne, We have the occasional steam train that goes pass for tourists. Other than that its rarely ever used. Our local council are considering reopening it though.

[@formulafish1536]

Okay. So when the Sydney Opera house was beginning, we used pounds, not until 1966 did we use AUD

[@kateemma22]

I believe he’s using how much it would cost in today’s AUD.

[@hoperp1951]

The metro line through the building in Chongqing causes no structural damage. All of the apartments on 2 to 3 levels above and below the tracks have been removed, the lines are supported externally to the building itself and do not load the building structure. There is also a station located on the sixth to eighth floor of a 19-storey residential building. It uses specialized noise reduction equipment to isolate station noise from the surrounding residences / structure.

[@morry32]

Any idea how effective the noise reduction equipment

[@hoperp1951]

@@morry32 No idea, whilst I have been on the line and that particular station, I have not been into any of the apartments. As the line is supported external to the building, then there is no direct contact to the building to transfer noise or vibration other than through the air. I did not find it to be a noisy / high speed line, the metro carriages all slow down to stop at the station in the building so guess all these factors help in noise reduction.

[@nacoran]

Not happy accidents... just disasters that were repaired or that haven't and may still happen.

[@jacobh9487]

Gargantuan money pits that got so much insane amounts of money dumped into it, that it ended up looking "pretty". If making things look pleasing was part the goal, you can do it A LOT cheaper.

[@Milesco]

@ nacoran: Exactly right. The title is just plain wrong.

[@johnburt7935]

I guess the place my wife and I sold in 2019 was a nail-through-the-palm house. The city harassed us, preventing us from making improvements and forcing us to tear down our garage shortly after my wife became disabled and we began to especially need off-street parking. We sold it to a man who told us he had a good relationship with the city planners and thought he could get approval for the kind of restoration work he had in mind for it. We sold it to him, knocking several thousand dollars off the price with the understanding that he'd take on the cost of lead paint abatement. The city then turned around and socked us for the cost of lead paint abatement anyway, diminishing our retirement fund. Meanwhile, they also double-crossed the buyer, forcing him to demolish the house he'd been looking forward to restoring. The city drove nails through the palms of both the sellers and the buyer.

[@JamesF0790]

@Liberty AboveAllElse While I don't know much about Christine Ford I can agree that believing liars is never a good idea, no matter how high they have managed to get.

[@handywijaya3689]

Where do you even lived man?? Spending even a night in your city would've been nothing but nightmares for me!

[@matthewv789]

The “x” building refers to the John Hancock tower in Chicago, not Boston. Different building.

[@deamuse]

Incorrect. It is in Boston but it's the Prudential Tower.

[@matthewv789]

@@deamuse No? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Center (as opposed to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower, the one in Boston with the problem windows)

[@deamuse]

@@matthewv789 Yeah after you sent this I realized I messed up

[@Lzrdman91]

I’ve taken the same pic in Chicago from the 96 signature room. It’s the wrong building for sure.

[@philanthrosaur1792]

Alot of the footage of Boston is also from the Hancock from Chicago

[@1961casey]

That rail crossing in Azerbaijan actually did have traffic lights so that the train never 'suddenly' crossed the road. It is therefore not 'shocking' nor do any vehicles come close to crashing into the train. That architect, Calatrava, was hired to design a pedestrian bridge in my city. The final design looked like a chinese finger trap which might have been okay if they had decided to place it across the river into chinatown. But they didn't. Instead they installed it about a half mile upstream, a hundred yards from another existring bridge. Because of its appearance it simply did not match with the surrounding neighborhoods and arichitecture. It ended up looking like a giant dead caterpiller. Calatrava was paid about $2.5 million dollars and the bridge was fabricated outside of the country, Spain I think. When the bridge parts were delivered and construction began it was discovered that many of the welds were substandard and had to be done over again. At least the city didn't have to pay for those repairs. Small comfort that it was. In the end we ended up with a weird, ugly bridge that was not being used to its full potential and which was hated by a significant part of the citizens.. At least we could say we have a Calatrava designed bridge. That's something . . . . . right???

[@fernandomarques5166]

Gonna be honest to you, I am on my last year of Architecture college. And consensus is that Calatrava is overated. In Rio he made a building that is completely disconnected with its surroundings and has a roof full of holes, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a tropical country, with a average temp of 25-30°C and 210 days of sun during the year. Its called the Museum of Tomorrow.

[@Snagglepuss1952]

You give the impression that the Gasbourne airport is lucky to have no accidents, not the case. It is controlled, and managed with safe practices. As Is Gibraltar airport which crosses the main road.

[@JamesF0790]

Also, the Walky Scorchy could entirely have been foreseen. The designer had previously made a building with this exact same problem.

[@thondupandrugtsang]

I'm baffled at the contradiction between the title and the content.

[@statelyelms]

For "not ending up as fails", most of these mistakes seem to be fails..

[@Milesco]

Yeah, the title is totally wrong.

[@u452u]

“The Railway Market is known as the most dangerous market in the world” Wuhan: “Hold my bat”

[@BaberJacks]

Wuhan hold my bsl4.

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

You mean, my bat soup?

[@randomdude9135]

Lol. But Pangolins to be accurate

[@UN-intelligent]

Can't believe how many people still thinks this wasn't man made. Go look up, Dr on verge of corona virus breakthrough shot to death. An American DR shot dead when he was supposed to announce some findings to media outlets. No major media is even covering this. Only small KZbin channels.

[@thequeenoflondon5112]

Doom Slayer Ha Ha bat go crunch

[@paxhumana2015]

The solution to the climbing domes is simple...remove them and use materials that are safe and that also do not soak up heat.

[@kennethblocher6110]

I was thinking they could put in a water play area for the children. The water could be pumped through the domes to keep them cool and then used in an area a little ways off for the aquatic playground. It would only be operated in the summer, providing cooling on hot days.

[@ajcotroneo7710]

Just paint the blooming things white every year.

[@kennethblocher6110]

@@ajcotroneo7710 I was trying to offer a solution that wouldn't change the overall aesthetics. Besides, if they're going to be painted white, they might as well be made from recycled plastic.

[@franksierow5792]

I suspect that painting them white would not help: they are already very reflective. I suspect that the main problem is that they very conductive of heat, so that when they get hot the heat is transferred very quickly to anyone that touches them.

[@daviddickey9762]

cover them rubber like used tires for f sake children are known to fall and you want to provide giant steel objects for them to land on?

[@tylerkochman1007]

Who researched this? The John Hancock building with "iconic bracings" is the one in Chicago, not Boston! Also, what is with the title?

[@BlackChevyImpalaSS]

Why dont we call it "The PS4"

[@PeterLiuIsBeast]

The pictures they showed are of the one in Boston as well.

[@tylerkochman1007]

@@PeterLiuIsBeast yes, because the one in Boston is the one that encountered issues with its windows.

[@cisium1184]

The one in Boston is the one that had windows getting sucked out.

[@TokyoXtreme]

12:19 trains often pass through buildings called “train stations” without causing structural damage.

[@burgerpommes2001]

Berlin did this too at an u bahn station The house is most likely not physically connected to the station

[@jupiter776]

@@burgerpommes2001 Uhhh what?

[@burgerpommes2001]

@@jupiter776 mendson batholdy park

[@TheKadonye]

False equivalency. A train station is built for purpose, to withstand heavy locomotives - A residential building is not, you can't just 're-purpose' it as a train station

[@burgerpommes2001]

@@TheKadonye there homes were also built to withstand trains

[@Cydonia2020]

Cohodas Hall on the campus of Northern Michigan University (Marquette, Michigan) is a six story administration building made of a deep purple stone. There were never any problems with the construction of the building or its usage, however someone decided that the sides of the building needed cleaning. The administration proceeded to have the building scrubbed down on the outside-however, whatever solvents they used began to break down the exterior stone. Chunks of the building were threatening to fall off. They had to put a chain-link fence around the perimeter to prevent chunks of stone falling onto unsuspecting pedestrians below. Eventually, the building was stabilized, repaired and cleaned with a much less corrosive cleaner. But it certainly made for an interesting scandal.

[@oldenweery7510]

"Another great idea from Management!"

[@MrXboxboy]

12 engineering mistakes* goes on to mostly blames the architect

[@dperreno]

Not only that, but mixing up the roles of the architects and the engineers, the creators of this video obviously don't know anything about the different roles of design, engineering, and construction.

[@kingslushie1018]

Doug Perrenoud can you explain the difference to me Please? Architectures design, and engineers build/bring concepts into reality.

[@michaelpugh2617]

An architects dream is an engineers nightmare

[@NoobNoobNews]

The train station inside the apartment building is nice. I wish they did them more often.

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

Just for some context, concerning "nail houses", there is a local saying "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down" - so the terminology used to describe the situation has rather dark undertones.

[@Ericwvb2]

Western saying: The squeaky wheel gets the grease Eastern saying: The nail that sticks up gets hammered down

[@okboing]

that shiny building that melted a car has an anti-reflective coating to prevent it from melting things now. not a fail that succeeded, because they literally prevented it.

[@khall7119]

Good job to who ever messed up the John Hancock script and pictures haha

[@joeschizoid7762]

This is what happens when morons try to make "easy money" as KZbinrs.

[@kiyohshi6827]

That first one would make for an amazing escape from a zombie or police horde as someone purposely uses the train to block them off for the safe getaway.

[@unclebullfrog7319]

Up date: the Gisborne railway line has been closed for some years because of a slip. It wasn't economic anyway. Also apart from private flights, no other flights go to Australia.

[@cnugg007]

the X building or whatever looked like a ps4 😂

[@josephajibodu38]

Seriously .... It's true 😃

[@d.s4316]

Wow your right

[@philperry4699]

A couple more fails that thankfully have good videos elsewhere on YT: the Citicorp building in NYC that could have literally been toppled by a gale-force wind blowing on a corner, and the London pedestrian bridge that swayed excessively. The latter was actually an unexpected interaction between the bridge's resonance and how people changed their stride to accommodate a slight sway, so it may be unfair to call it a fail. The former was quickly corrected with additional steel welded to the frame.

[@anonymike8280]

A whole new spin on intermodal. But, hey, In Mexico there's a minor league ballpark with a railroad running across the outfield, if it's still there. The train approaches and the engineer blows the whistle. The outfielders open the doors. The train runs through. Close the doors. The game resumes. Minor league ball. Gnat attacks. Bee swarms. Canine outfielders. Trains running across the outfield. Volunteer accordion players in the stands. It's not just money why guys want to make the bigs. Coming your way soon: murder hornets in your soda cup.

[@bnz6695]

hehehe my dad use to live in Chongqing china when he was a kid and every year we would visit it I've been on that station multiple times and it actually pretty great in there

[@berenscott8999]

The Chinese example is incredible, because it's very common for people over there to build gigantic concrete structures very high with no intention of actually completing the project, just so the compensation for purchase is much much larger. You'll see farms with these structures on them located perfectly. It's cheap to build them and the compensation depends on how many floors.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

"Compensation for purchase?" What does this mean? Who pays the compensation?

[@MLeoM]

Red skull: what makes you... Special? Building: I'm the worst building in London!

[@briannefowler]

The train going through the apartment building is super cool!

[@c.jmiller4352]

Your title is misleading. These mistakes had to be fixed therefore it's a fail.

[@JamesFluker]

Stopped watching at the first item on the list "Gisborne Airport in New Zealand's Elgin suburb" proves you have no idea about the places you're talking about.

[@Plelement94]

Agreed. Plus new Zealand is larger in area than the UK, not exactly small

[@LavenderOrc]

The walkie talkie building looks like a giant toe

[@hdhrhsk]

Wtf

[@yelyab1]

In the early 60s a company named Thompson, Rhienhold and Woolridge was given the task of developing a way of managing engineering projects with crossed requirements and no common communications networks. It was also tasked with monitoring program status in terms of % complete and to list the tasks on the critical path (if these tasks weren’t done project would be an immediate failure, like build elevators). This was done in order to put a man on the moon in less than 10 years. The company is better known as TRW. It started as a maker of standard parts for bicycles, later it started the infamous “credit check” business. It was was chopped up by a bunch of Gordon Gecko types in the 90s and space and defense went to Grumman and automotive was a standard alone run by John Plant who cuts the guts out and sold it to ZF for a tidy sum. He was the highest compensated executive in Michigan for man years using cut to the bone and sell techniques. The methodology for program management was called CPM, Critical Path Method it’s tool was PERT, Program Evaluation Review Technique . It’s purpose was o prevent these stupid mistakes by writing down detailed customer requirements and specifications including things like don’t start other buildings on fire. There was a compendium of dumb things the customer wanted but they really weren’t that dumb. Auto management in the 90s wanted nothing to do with it. They liked “shoot from hip” and methods the president is trying on eliminating the C-Virus. I’ve been around too long and seen too much, shoot me now!

[@mcb187]

John Hancock is the name of 2 buildings, one in Boston, the other in Chicago. You mixed facts and footage from both into the video. Both had their issues, but at least he consistena with what building your talking about. Lol

[@chrisparcley4501]

Thanks man...i thought I was experiencing some weird Mandela effect...i live just outside of Chicago and great grandfather was one of the lead iron workers on it...deffinetly distinctive and the one in the video footage was not it but yet he's going on about the very distinctive steel Xs on the outside...i was so confused...

[@rsan2501]

*me being Chicagoan* There's one in Boston???? It doesn't look like it

[@MrTehRelic]

4:39 you can litterally see the traffic light

[@RodimusPrime1313]

I find it interesting that in China they let people stay in there houses even if they are in the middle of a highway but in Canada they can just take the land if they need it.

[@TEverettReynolds]

Surprisingly, many old and current socialist or communist governments value property and land ownership over all other rights, even civil rights. I don't know why, but it seems like even a totalitarian government respects the power of a valid land title.

[@dunstonbrooks6886]

That really surprised me as well.

[@jaxonpallone9344]

@@TEverettReynolds what about the time they flooded whole towns to build the three gorges dam?

[@budsbustbi6339]

@@jaxonpallone9344 yes!! bit happens! but they also gave every one far more than any western government has when they do the same thing!!

[@budsbustbi6339]

@@TEverettReynolds ya!! yet you and us Americans are free??

[@Frankjc3rd]

It's not that the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing, it's that one hand didn't know there was another hand involved.

[@eddog6666]

That runway in New Zealand with the Railroad actually has a unique thing. The control tower actually controls both. The train is required to stop at a special signal light and get permission from the tower. The people in the tower check to see incoming and departed flights and the length of the train. If it is safe the tower alerts the pilots about the train then waits for fuel check and if it all clear they clear the signal.

[@wlydick]

Hancock Building's primary problem was the coating on the windows was bonding to the window frames, instead of letting the windows float in the frames. That led to shattered windows when the building swayed.

[@trentburtch3915]

1:46 the real looking walkie-talkie 😆

[@saeemuthe2387]

This was when the engineering students were taught practically. Imagine the online batch of 2020 constructing the buildings.

[@cucumberferris5854]

Engineering mistakes that turns out to be not China: This is us! The World: NOOOO!!!!!!!!

[@ronmark1753]

hi welcome to 2021

[@NoMythSmith]

Should be titled "Engineering Mistakes That Were Corrected".

[@thomask940]

Should be titled :engineer mistakes that sent the designers to the gulag...never to be seen again.

[@bulldozer8950]

Or “engineering mistakes that were corrected BEFORE people got hurt”

[@Justin_Bank]

They muddled up the Hancock building one. Included information from both Chicago and Boston (X- building from the braces = Chicago) (windows falling out = Boston) (swaying building = Boston). There are also clips here from inside the Chicago tower, not Boston.

[@filippogiancola8221]

Fun fact n. 2: I'm a Venice architect, and remember that Calatrava's bridge, although his real beauty, not only manage to injure people, but also it bends through wind, and it's weigh is causing a gradual distancing between the two islands on which it rests... For this reason, the municipality is using almost 1/3 of his annual cap (intended for the maintenance of the entire delicate city) to reinforce its foundations! 🤷‍♂️

[@paulbrancato8262]

We have two Calatrava bridges here in Dallas. They are mostly know for costs over runs during construction with the pedestrian/bicycle part of one still unopened due to structural deficiencies.

[@DarylGriffiths]

“There’s never been a *major* accident here” which is encouraging.

[@bulldozer8950]

The engineer who designed the walkie talkie knew it would reflect sunlight (in fact he designed a building with a similar problem somewhere else) he just didn’t know how bad it would be.

[@eschdaddy]

The person doing the research added Chicago’s John Hancock and Boston's John Hancock info and pictures.

[@c182SkylaneRG]

I thought something looked off about the home video clip. I went back after seeing your comment and realized the streets are in a grid pattern. Boston streets are generously termed "cowpaths" :). Also, he showed a picture, but failed to mention the nickname "Plywood Palace". :) Mom's told me about that one, as that happened while she was growing up in Arlington, MA.

[@SkyLeach]

Lol

[@kerrymcmasters2397]

Hancock Building in Boston was also known as Plywood City because of the early window problems. In the 90’s I climbed through almost every inch of that tower installing updated Life Safety Systems. There were still a few window issues. On very windy days the deflection of the tower is measured at ground level. If it is bad, the building is evacuated. There is a gyroscope near the top of the building with counter weights that move on windy days to balance the building. Oh yeah, being in Boston’s Back Bay, it is built on water! Piling may be about 30 stories deep to the bedrock.

[@oldenweery7510]

My first thought at 2:10 was: "Looks like somebody's thumb got caught in the wringer!" Then I find it's a building that converts solar energy into a Death Ray! I remember hearing at the time the Disney building was completed that it was a reflecting nightmare. But all of the others on this list pale in comparison to running a railroad right-of-way across a superhighway. Yikes! Great list. Stay safe, everybody.

[@paxhumana2015]

The bridge that is in Venice needs to be torn down, altered with grooves to make sure that people do not slip on rainy days or, better yet, have a covered walkway over the bridge, and to also not build it out of glass.

[@Gibbzy194]

You have a fact wrong. The Gisborne Airport in New Zealand doesn't have flights to Australia. Only domestic flights.

[@friengy2676]

This video chilled for 1 year until KZbin decided to put it in our recommended list

[@jerrysimon8771]

The monorail traveling through the apartment is definitely creating noises. Waking up with railways waiting for you at your door? More like being woke up at 6 am every day by the train.

[@russellgxy2905]

Yes, but they made a good choice in selecting a monorail, which is far quieter than a conventional railway. Lighter trains too. I'm sure some noise complaints would be an issue though, but for what it is it's as much a success as it is a failure

[@philperry4699]

All I could think of was the Chicago El rumbling by apartment windows 5 feet away. Watch the movie "The Blues Brothers" for a great scene with this.

[@hyndscs]

Can I point something out about Gisborne in NZ. That track was there before the airport and Gisborne is surrounded by steep forest terrain and ocean.

[@grantmorrow8179]

Yes, the Gisborne airport (formerly "Darton Field") originally had 3 grass runways (strips) with the rail line running just beyond the main runway. These strips handled piston-engined aircraft (DC3) OK, but the advent of jet-props meant the main runway had to be extended. The only viable option was to extend and seal Rwy32 over the rail line. While trains have right-of-way, there are rail signals at the crossing to stop trains if necessary. I believe this set of signals is one of, if not the only, set not operated by the rail network - it is (or was) controlled by the air traffic controller when I lived in gisborne

[@hyndscs]

@@grantmorrow8179 still is controlled by ATC

[@KarimAkors]

Berlin Airport Calculated construction price :2billion in the end :7billion € Calculated building time 6 years in the end :14 years + and still under Construction and closed

[@jameszka997]

Walkie Talkie being a big mistake that turned out to be not a fail. Yes. The curved side managed to produce heat where people could easily fry eggs, melt the exterior of parking cars and crack the pavement, which then needed a 14 million $ worth heat shield installed at the top. Sounds like a colossal trainwreck to me

[@DVjarhead]

Baku Railroad, (4:25), I lived 2 blocks from that location for 4 years and my office would look out over the intercession (4:26-4:36 photos are from Port Baku South Tower building between 5th-8th floors late 2015-early 2016, My office was at the 16th floor / about 8 floors above) in 2013 there were 4 railroad crossings across and the road was half that size. What they are showing you is a snap shot of the expansion of the road, removal of the docks/shipyards and the expansion of the public sea boulevard, which was well planned (work plan from 2009 to 2018). There were plenty of lights and a very LOUD siren that would go off when any train was about to cross. Most times the train would wait till there was a gap in traffic to cross and the train moved so slowly that you could run in front of it and cross it with little effort. VERY POOR research… (4:37) is the oldest image of the location in early 2013, where the wall was still standing to the left of the train to hide the shipyards and docks. That was gone at (4:42) overhead photo is mid 2016 when the road turn off in the upper right hand corner was open for traffic, (4:48) is still missing the railroad to the last dock as it was still there below the screen as the rail was not pulled until late 2017 when the dock was finally moved “per plan in 2009” and a bunch of trees were planted in the back ground at the same time.

[@chungdamien]

There's no longer train operation through Gisborne airport, NZ. I have flown my aircraft into there myself.

[@happalula]

interesting, but how about using the metric system as well in every case you give values in that confusing imperial system? what was it? about 140°F? is that cold enough to not sweat when taking a bath or can i melt steel with that temperature?

[@blue.johnstone.z]

it's hot, but not that hot. it's about 60 degrees celcius

[@happalula]

see, thats a value that makes a lot more sense and is understandable for everyone around the globe^^

[@pepsiman-tz9vi]

The confusing imperial system got us to the moon, just saying.

[@happalula]

@@pepsiman-tz9vi and? does that justify using an antiquated and outdated measurement system thats not comprehensible?

[@pepsiman-tz9vi]

@@happalula I mean has your country been to the moon? Oh, ok.

[@yo_its_gingey5329]

“Its unthinkable that a train would come through without warning.” Ever lived out in the country with no traffic lights?

[@KevinLockamy]

Why do you often see an engineer accompanied by about three technicians? One to grab the fire extinguisher, One to call 911, And one to implment the fix to the engineer's screwed up that they all saw comming an hour before the explosion.

[@mr.nitemare6199]

5:55 imma call that the “Play Station” building

[@travellingsoldier5018]

Just a heads up dude. There is no way a Tiger Moth would make it from Gisbourne to any part of OZ, even with a tail wind on a good day. I like your style but. :)

[@Manonsilvermountain]

8:51 who knew two of the famous engineering mistakes are next to each other.

[@AvP1971]

I live in Gisborne. That railway line has been there since day one. The reason why there has been no accidents is communication between the train and the air traffic control and the train gives way to the planes

[@jaykate9629]

I was an engineering mistake that turned out to be a failure!

[@hammerhiem75]

No Londoner's still think it's an eyesore, but there's not much they can do about it....

[@ltmonson]

Your punctuation or lack-of is an eyesore.

[@runningfromabear8354]

@John LaFever I think O K is talking about the gherkin.

[@mjhawkins1990]

& the SkyGarden is Free(floors 30-32),great food/drink,brilliant views but tourists rather go to Madame Tussauds to see bad waxwork copies of people famous for being irritating.

[@Vakda]

As someone from Gisborne, NZ - I wouldn't recommend listening to this guy.

[@Purplegorillaz]

The best one is the train going thru a apartment building.

[@leytonjay]

The car that the Walkie-talkie melted was actually on a hill many miles away at the focal point of the sun's reflection.

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Tis a giant death machine

[@poosnweesism]

Gisborne NZ doesn't have train service for freight or passengers, they stopped in the 90's due to neo conservative restructuring. It may have locomotives running on very special occasions. Normal domestic flights fly to Gisborne and there are no train tracks on the town's airport, at least not on the main runway, we have normal safety standards here. There are no flights to Australia from Gisborne. I found this video lacked proper research, maybe they just made most of it up as they found convenient?

[@dosaussiethai2127]

It doesn't matter for them. They make videos like these with inaccurate info because most viewers won't know or won't care anyway. You can see how many views each of these get.

[@ellieban]

The architect that designed the walkie talkie building had done a similar project before, abs that building had also melted stuff. So it may have been unforeseen, but it wasn’t unforeseeable!

[@Marcel_be]

1:25 yes, because ATC would allow a plane to take off while a train is passing the runway. that's how ATC works. this video doesn't extremely overdramatize the situtation.

[@juliuskysar9337]

2:34 Belgian car plates and right-hand traffic in London? Do you think we are idiots?

[@tommycscat]

12:11 OJ Simpson... that's a most incredible video editing mistake

[@hnic3718]

The walkie talkie building can also melt parts on ur car if parked across the street from it. 😂

[@berlinperez9433]

Getting motion sickness in a grounded building My body: Da fak you doing

[@thecelticprince4949]

The Gizzy airport rail crossing is controlled by the control tower.

[@biponacci]

Either way the line’s no longer connected to Napier or the rest of NZ so if you’d have to try real hard if you wanted to collide with a train.

[@thecelticprince4949]

@@biponacci There's still the Gizzy steam society using from the Gizzy end.

[@biponacci]

Robert Brugh That’s true but you’d be lucky to get three trains a year

[@thecelticprince4949]

@@biponacci I take it you're living in or near Gizzy. Been 10 years since I last lived there.

[@indranibhattacharjee8073]

5:02 shopping "on-line"

[@CG64Mushro0m]

“There is a run way for airplanes that has a train go directly through it” *this is the greatest plaaaan!*

[@hookuhjones3287]

Mistakes that turned out not to be fails then shows a train that plows through normal streets

[@josephleonard6695]

*"happy little accidents"* - Bob Ross

[@AndyHammer86]

They should have put some leaves on those little rascals!

[@Xryujfdjd]

Your comment will not be understood by 99% of the viewers

[@NLHarding]

Omg we got mentioned!!! Any other New Zealanders here?

[@krustykrew106]

So you’ve never been in the country, almost every railroad has no warning lights and gates to stop you

[@syclick]

Electrical engineering mistake: The Minimoog’s filter was accidentally overdriven by 15db. While it was technically an error, it made the Minimoog sound more full and weighty.