A Million Dollar Mistake - Massive Engineering Mistakes - S01 EP2 - Engineering Documentary

[@AirikAmandar]

I like how the Neuroscientist gave opinion on structural and construction engineering mistakes.

[@AndytheWhite]

I was looking for this comment! There’s quite a few cringe scripted replies from people I assume they just found on the street and filmed 😂

[@sandeepgiri2554]

we humans strive for complex things but the beauty is in simplicity

[@badass.bob1]

Best comment yet. Congratulations

[@pirato23]

as a structural engineer, i have the solution for Millennium Tower.... just demolish the top 15 storeys, that will be cheap and safe, i can share the methodology

[@hollowgonzalo4329]

@pirato23 That's what makes the most sense to me by far. It's all the other proposals which are ludicrous. The rich yuppies on the top floors are just going to have to suck it up because the entire building will be compromised otherwise.

[@glennstach4439]

Marble floors and walls are Heavy as well !!!! 👍✌🖖🍁🌻

[@kevin-parratt-artist]

What's the first thing I think of when asked about Sanfransisco?Earthquake!! 😁 I wouldn't pitch a tent in that city, let alone go anywhere near a multistorey building.

[@sarelras4103]

My exact thought that came watts the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes I live in a city that has had a few earthquakes nothing serious you get use to it after a while

[@WildbunchDM]

Why are there a biochemist and a neuroscientist in a documentary about "engineering disasters" talking as experts in the subject?? Especially when they don't once talk about how neurology or biochemistry could have been a factor or prevented anything..

[@craigsymington5401]

My thoughts exactly, where's the good 'ole fashion civil, structural or geo-engineers when you need them most?!

[@WildbunchDM]

@@craigsymington5401 Maybe they couldn't afford any to appear in the doc.

[@craigsymington5401]

@@WildbunchDM they didn't fit the profile😬

[@anthonykenny1320]

That dream home soon became a night mare home But how any one can live 50 floors above the ground is beyond me No opening windows No trees flowers or birds No neighbours No street life Totally abstract and detached from reality He is probably a dentist

[@helenlesley5456]

Anthonykenny1320… like your sense of humour… totally agree and they are built to sway and come with squeaking sounds…I lived in a 16 floor apartment and that was bad enough , lovely views of the SH bridge and wonderful sunsets but there was a fire in the apartment below and a female decided to dive off the balcony and landed on the concrete below … so never again apart from the drama the sheer terror of being trapped in a lift … good thing we are different

[@como000]

As an IT developer and an introvert, it would be my calming place. The room maybe doesn't have windows that can be opened, but you are free to leave the building to get some fresh air. Besides, it had to cost a lot, so it wouldn't be a problem to buy air filter or something like that to be able to maintain fresh air for apartment. Some people enjoy living near their neighbors, while others don't-like me-especially since my upstairs neighbors frequently drop things on the ground, causing a lot of irritation.

[@jkardez4794]

I can't even think of living above the 3rd storey; I have to see human activity and nature. That is why I prefer to chose a lower floor when I check into a hotel .

[@jirajira2872]

they have each other and the view.

[@lightwork_katano_japan]

Frank Jernigan is a retired Google software engineer and his husband is a retired physician. $4 million down the drain!

[@brucebaum1458]

It’s funny when the girl mentioned what do you think about San Francisco, I think of homeless people, drug use, sewage on the sidewalks, getting robbed, bad expensive restaurants, I will never go there again.

[@craigsymington5401]

@@carlosedwin1 spotted that!

[@colinyandon6137]

I thought 8 inches into a hole. That sounds San Francisco.

[@JM-st1le]

​@@colinyandon6137🧐

[@DoRightMuse]

Very interesting vid. Well done. Whatever will happen to the building! To become the "Leaning Tower of San Francisco"? But what's happened to S.F. is a real shame. Back in the 60's, 70's and 80's it was a very nice, fun place to live and work. It has gone downhill. Way downhill.

[@dongshengdi773]

​@@carlosedwin1 better live in a giant prison like China , so safe . Cameras everyway. From CCP government propaganda

[@dilbert0815]

The earthfall at the end is actually not a engineering failure but a freak of nature. It's about 20km from my former home town and the whole area is prone to earth falls because of huge limestone layers underneath that dissolves over ages creating caverns. You will not seem them coming, it's just happening.

[@juanitoatiwag4074]

The is a warning in the Bible that a person who builds is house in the sand is a fool

[@DavidHalverson]

Another massive engineering mistake is the building of mega cities Los Angeles and San Francisco over top of the San Andreas Earthquake Fault. Engineers I guess thought that an earthquake of magnitude 7 comes only once every 5 years shouldn't pose any inconvenience to the city dwellers. While the magnitude 10 earthquake is once every 100 years. Fix: building codes that require structures to be able to withstand any earthquakes.

[@Luke-tg9jy]

Yes because they knew that 200+ years ago.

[@brassitaschannel-tu5yw]

Yeah but that would be totally unaffordable.

[@Landis_Grant]

How could a slippery bridge floor be blamed on engineers? It was the architect who chose the glass material.

[@Landis_Grant]

@@AR-15-685 What is the name of your country? In Canada, the architect is the boss of a project. He designed the bridge, he hired the engineer, he’s the project manager, and he helped the owner choose the general contractor. Even though he’s not a structural engineer, he is responsible for the engineer’s mistake.

[@Landis_Grant]

@@AR-15-685 If there’s no architect because the owner doesn’t feel a need for an architect, then the engineer is the boss.

[@Landis_Grant]

@@AR-15-685 Architects get paid more than engineers.

[@sootuckchoong7077]

They used cement or concrete instead of steel, so, their mistake is not knowing there's a big difference in weight, strength and so on.

[@fglatzel]

@@AR-15-685 It's really simple! Architects select the finishes and the structural Engineer makes allowance for the load of these finishes. A structural Engineer never deals with building finishes. It's the Architect's job. Unless of course, if there is no Architect, then the structural Engineer is responsible.

[@Roses-lilac]

Is it just me, but why do people build on fault lines, marsh land, and sand? And then wonder why buildings collapse.

[@sarelras4103]

Same reason why people built on the bank of rivers orat the beach and wonder why their houses gets flooded

[@AkumaOfThunder]

42:47 "There are no *_concrete plans_* to fill in the sink hole.." I see what you did there.

[@dennisschwartzentruber3204]

Maybe the Netherlands might have some ideas for Venice's problems !

[@DavidHalverson]

Building dikes around the city to keep the ocean back and use windmills to pump out any excess water getting inside. Venice could become "Little Holland" of Italy. An engineering success story for the Dutch nation and its people.

[@Paul_C]

They offered to take a look but decided to not burn their fingers: their plans were a mess. Think they offered to build a dike I think.

[@basvanderhoek9293]

@@Paul_C They suggested dredging the Canals, so water can flow freely in and out. It was voted down by Venice, because it was "Too expensive"

[@genuinelyfrenchsoaps]

I was always confused by why san francisco had any skyscrapers...wasnt there a law that after the last big earthquake in the 1930s no construction was allowed if over 12 floors

[@kobusdutoitbosman6240]

fascinating situation which will require very ingenious methods to rectify Question arising: ‘How could the building site have been declared fit for purpose applied, in the first instance?’ Awkward setup…🤓

[@robertboyle255]

$$$

[@pryder5943]

some of the problems are that people like architects are pushing the boundaries rather than staying simple for the chance to put their name in glory

[@anthonykenny1320]

As a retired architect I look back at the simple triple fronted brick veneer of the sixties with nostalgia at the honesty and lack of glitz not to mention the very workable floor plans Architects these days try to make statements with their designs but end up creating chaos and confusion not to mention unadulteratedugliness

[@robertrada1660]

And that is desaster..

[@hollowgonzalo4329]

@pryder5943 Yeah this show seems to pin everything on the engineers while ignoring that architects also exist and are sometimes a big part of the problem.

[@fluffgirl1000]

Now they could remove half a dozen flat from the top ..or reduce the building by half

[@geoffdein2894]

Oh! Someone else’s fault! Yea that’s SF. It all fitting together

[@deborahd7321]

In my learning days of school, college, and Army, I never ever cheated on my exams. I studied hard and resat if I had to. This is the result of too people cheating on their exams. Corrupt instructors and the like passing failures to make their own results look good. This is not good, men doing jobs without the proper credentials. It can kill.

[@petersack5074]

"" Qualified, does not mean '' CERTIFIED '' ......in anything. Handy-men, may be qualified....but /????? are they ' certified ' ? Probably not ......more scammers....

[@piersp38]

I do not know when they shoot this doc, however for Venice is really old. Mose is on service today and thanks God we did it! Each and every Autumn to Winter people stop complaining about maintenance and cost cause they see, towns remains much dryer, as much dryer as possibile seen the ambient where it was built.

[@Ubique2927]

Another chief designer who could not be told "NO', "You are wrong". I have met many.

[@achatinaslak742]

Yes, and sometimes with deadly consequences, as we saw a few weeks ago.

[@calvinavilez7234]

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[@LryuzakiLN]

Yep dumb CEO's and Engineers everywhere

[@ricky9470]

@30:00, a solution is to put a red carpet in the bridge. or better yet, rainbow color to make it looks grand.

[@John-nl4lt]

This will need to come down.

[@roldanduarteholguin7102]

Export the Q*, Chat GPT, Revit, Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Inventor, ENGI file of the Building or Refinery to Excel, prepare Budget 1 and export it to COBRA. Prepare Budget 2 and export it to Microsoft Project. Solve the problems of Overallocated Resources, Planning Problems, prepare the Budget 3 with which the construction of the Building or the Refinery is going to be quoted.

[@daskritterhaus5491]

yo, enjinears, its called bedROCK not bedSAND. aim for it, keep digging until you find it then start piling things on until top floor is done.

[@gracemarotta2769]

With that much money they could move the best buildings to another place

[@oNe-TwO-fReE]

"A wise man does not build his house upon sand and Trash"

[@suzyfarnham3165]

Maybe they should have rung Australia about tiles on the Opera House??? Sydney Opera House has been there since 1973??!! No problems !!

[@rocketeerPM2500]

Being a massive continental shelf, Australia has little chance of earthquakes. But Aussie jokes about New Zealand being "The Shaky Isles" ended after the regional city of Newcastle (NSW State) was hit by a quake in December 1989. The shock (5.6 on the Richter scale) killed 13, injured over 160 and caused major damage. Australia's building codes are pretty strict, and have likely been tightened further.

[@sirbollocks5147]

i know,they can attach giant birthday balloons to the top of the tower to take up the weight with smiley faces and unicorns on them.

[@jackfrost2146]

I don't see it as friction stopping that rod being hammered into the sand, more likely the sand under the base of the rod being compressed closer together the deeper it goes. I'm sure if it was a tube being hammered, it would go much deeper. Friction on the sides is not going to have much influence.

[@bob456fk6]

The friction of the sand becomes more apparent when you try to pull a rod out of the sand. Pulling it out can be very difficult. Over time though, the piles will very slowly sink into the sand, perhaps unevenly on the four sides.

[@jackfrost2146]

That sounds reasonable, maybe I wouldn't have come to my conclusion if the hammered in rod had a point on it.@@bob456fk6

[@theredboneking]

Did he sell his “nightmare condominium” to some poor sucker and pass on the nightmarish situation?

[@user-rf7uj5vt3i]

To fix the slippery Spain bridge, one can construct a robot that uses a laser and makes certain type of, not holes, but a kind of very small, uniform and evenly spaced, pits or small punctures, so that small Glass/Plastic/Colored Rubber Stars can be glued or inserted with their vertical poles in the holes -if holes are made, and the beauty of the bridge may even enhance with these twinkling objects! Just a thought out of feeling sorry for such a beautiful construction. Thank you.

[@KCECC-ActiveHealthyAgeing]

Spanish glass bridge. Architect needs to go back to school to know can’t walk in glass especially with the multitude gradients of bridge and the local weather or ….there’s something fishy going on with the use of that glass. 😂

[@adriaba790]

This happened in Venice too,same type of bridge,same designer Santiago Calatrava...had to pay back money to Venice City Government after losing a lawsuit that was filed against him

[@ezekiel1232]

Re do the mold for the glass but introduce small cone shapes exterior for the glass to be pressed to be still light transparent for overall effect .

[@markrobby7136]

Some are rather natural disasters than so-called engineering mistakes

[@abcxyz-e4c]

Antique Román architects laughing hard 😂

[@petersack5074]

for sure....Vitruvius especially . ( He authored ' Ten Books on Architecture ''. Check it out - a very good education, for what is REQUIRED OF A MODERN ENGINEER. with calculator, plastic , glass, and CEMENT . OH......add rebar....and mud/ sand / fill too.

[@markgeorge5536]

I'm guessing the piles are NOT as deep as they where designed to be.

[@hangemhigh7069]

Talk about scary but interesting program!😮

[@Elias-w7o3v]

Boa tarde a todos os guerreiros e guerreiras do the history.

[@henryterranauta9100]

📶💰💰Legendary 💰💰📶Italian corruption is💰📶💰likely the reason📶💰💰why Moses can’t work💰💰its most miraculous parting of the Adriatic Sea 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 19:19

[@rtracquet]

Sinking and leaning , sounds familiar, Pisa and it's infamous tower. A thousand year old problem.

[@Monkeybar54621]

One thing my grandson told me was the alarm kept going on in the hotel at San Francisco 😬

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

1st episode I watched, is there an episode about that skyscraper in China that wobbled around, about 1 - 2 years ago?

[@independentwith1]

Minute 6:00, really? Going deeper with the stick only creates more friction? What about all the sand it replaces? Where does it go? That is pressure, like in the deep sea....

[@karlotookofi8413]

The reasons for most failures are several, f.e. - greedyness - incompetence - corruption - lack of responsibility or NO personal responsibility at all for decision makers According to my life experience the lack of personal responsibility in "public offices/positions," for example in: - politics - financing - lawyers - judges etc. is the main reason for our current "declining situation."

[@vtecro1826]

Jim Sim...glass floor ..I have been building houses for54 years even as an apprentice I knew not to use glossy surfaces on any floor I use sand texture as much as possible..how come architects with degrees in several fields of construction.make this mistake . Also why was the local authority oblivious to this problem it is a problem that dates back to ancient times... time people started to question these designs ...

[@gladysroca4007]

The problem jn San Francisco is not of the Millineal Tower alone. The next buildings have the same fears toò. Especialling where the building is tilting to. But leaning Tower of Pisa is still standing though.

[@gladysroca4007]

Correction: especially

[@KarlDMarx]

True ... but how to put the furniture?

[@freespiritable]

The tower of Pisa doesn't have the skyscraper's height

[@KarlDMarx]

@@freespiritable Very pertinent remark

[@gladysroca4007]

@@freespiritable thank you for the information.

[@toddevans5731]

On a scale of 1 to 10, this documentary isn't even on the charts😂

[@alexsetyapranarka9191]

Just add more friction to the building and reduce from using heavy material.

[@K1VV1939]

My Final Remedy for Sinkholes, Initially I thought Mercury concrete mix but Mercury is expensive whereas Depleted Uranium is cheap so it's Depleted Uranium concrete mix and build Residential buildings directly over the top with Weird green lighting and heating.

[@JeandrePetzer]

Subtitles /closed captions unavailable

[@japantrader20]

A Marble has Higher IQ than today's Engineers!

[@brassitaschannel-tu5yw]

Architects and structural engineers forgetting about us geotechnical engineers

[@dmcneil6113]

Are the Millennium tower residents going to be levied a special assessment to fix the problem? One heck of a bill for something youve already paid for. And why did the developer make a running change to the design going from steel to concrete, especially at the top. Center of gravity and all.

[@rikardlalic7275]

They can easily bring it down just like they did with the building 7 (too) in the WTC complex, and then rebuild it BBB.

[@kannanthrivikraman1139]

Make the letters ĺittle bigger to read fast.good information.

[@robertedwards7695]

One minute your looking at heaven ,the next your looking at hell.😮

[@rodblair3705]

Vibration will reduce the friction on the piles. So will the ground water problem. Pump liquid cement down a hole to the bedrock.

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Not one single bit of footage of any building sinking into the ground in Nordhausen?!

[@Rawkus105]

I think the world has a combined responsibility to help Venice.

[@relaxingnature2617]

Venice solution ..fill in the lagoon with rocks and dirt

[@Krista-k5v]

This use RAAC?

[@freespiritable]

Venice is on the ocean? 😬

[@deepaksarkar9382]

From which colleges they passed engineering?

[@rob379lqz]

How aboot ban waterbeds, aquariums, weight-rooms, and residents that weight over 115 pounds. Remember, this is Cali, so any ban is possible. 👍

[@rob379lqz]

@nanamobilelegendsgameplay Mostly

[@rob379lqz]

@nanamobilelegendsgameplay I apologize. Sometimes I am an a-hole. I originally was going to recommend a hydrogen balloon attached to each corner…

[@SuperVinccent]

David Foster should do a documentary

[@malcolmpuhawan3695]

Slippery glass-tile bridge out in the open and it has slopes...😂

[@lurliebalneg5319]

Good

[@harrickvharrick3957]

That edged glass that woman comes up with is not any better. It only has little lines etched out in it, that makes the amount of contact surface even less, whilst it is still as slippery on said surface as any other glass. Even metal plating producers make the mistake of thinking ridges in or even on the surface of that metal would make it less slippery.. A bit of rain and the opposite may even be true!

[@rusticbox9908]

Seriously, you guys need China to fix these problems @ 1/3 the cost.

[@susanpoland5919]

And then theyll end up owning everything!

[@rusticbox9908]

@@susanpoland5919 lol, keep watching BBC & CNN.

[@richardbayly3993]

8:44 The narration is dribble. In an earthquake zone every building is at great risk 36 cm out of plumb or not!

[@xl000]

In Venice Why didn’t they just make some proof of concept / pilot program for 3 to 5 years and draw conclusions from that?

[@tessietesoro7407]

Egos kill it

[@robertholland7558]

We need to fight back, at any and all costs! I literally rather die then submit to these lies, and have zero issue expressing these feelings, even to my Psy

[@fishnchips8132]

Mose - Moses = didn't part the waters - God did - just a little slip in remembering..........

[@williamlandweer7106]

Venice should have the Dutch do the job

[@daskritterhaus5491]

5:55 "friction" ? the type and level of 'friction' in the grains of sand suddenly get different a few feet down? OR is it a question of displacement; a shallow stake 'shifts' the adjacent sand easily, including upward. not so deep down. it cant compress or move after about 3 feet so the inertia of the mallet goes nowhere. anyways the FACT the tower IS shifting puts a wrench in the frriction explanation

[@lucylane7397]

The longer the pole goes in the sand the surface area increases

[@roseszautner1134]

I think epoxy with ingrained sand would work for the bridge

[@adiakiyes6354]

Italians should ask help for these 3 countries Netherlands Israel and Taiwan bc they're the best for water engineering.

[@lawrencepak1917]

Time to consider tearing it down. Its safer for the entire precinct.

[@ericksonrodriguez6930]

I have an idea for the Venice problem. Actually the problem is worldwide.

[@tyler-fw9ph]

It gets harder because your an Old man getting tired. Not even a comparison to the sky scraper sinking IMO

[@YorBarkin]

Venice - MOSE project. The lady at the end says 'let's hope Italians come up with a solution to save Venice". ....But if this is a world heritage isn't the whole world responsible to save it and come up with solutions?

[@Yjn75]

"engineering mistakes that only an EXPERT can fix" 😂 Did they hire fresh collage grads to design that skyscraper?

[@colinyandon6137]

Isn't 8 inches into a hole what San Francisco is best known for?

[@petersack5074]

?....hmm. ;; Sin City "......? area of sodom and gomorrah....your going down, San Fran !

[@lifeisharditsharderifyoure6822]

Millenium Tower? sounds like Dekade Tower

[@ajLagerfeld]

58th storey is a Big No No for me… San Francisco is an active earthquake zone a 2 storey would be good for me 😅😅😅😅😅

[@rewind1960]

So sorry for the poor man that lost his 50th story home due to poor construction. We must do more to prevent this from ever happening again. These poor people losing their views of the scenery around them. 50 stories up you don’t see the homeless people which is an issue obviously not as important as these people being forced to move. How inconvenient.

[@tengdungo7814]

The hatch glass is still a glass..also slippery when wet..the blk rag mterials (whaever)replacemrnt of thr glass is enough..

[@nonkululekongobese3343]

Just hire the engineering professor

[@guitarfreakizoid]

More Mythbusters!

[@paolomesseca8679]

better to subcontract to the Dutch

[@ambrosejoseph4843]

Oooops!!!

[@rawiriwhare7405]

God parted the water. Moses was only Gods chosen tool of choice.

[@hamishstewart5188]

Why not just keep to the report and leave out the drama and ham acting ?

[@DaVe-iSnOtHoMe.MaN.LemmingsWeB]

Then it couldn't fill 20% of its timeslot.

[@sammyfuckinbizzle]

Leave out the people who say the most obvious stuff that adds nothing to the doco but time-filling. I'm looking at you blue top English wannabe Armerican with the Cali vocal fry woman.

[@narendarreddyj2423]

Nature is so powerful,one day it vanishes all humans from mother earth.for human's insatiable appetite

[@apiocatherine7116]

wood decking on the bridge would be better

[@VishalKatta-fc3uf]

27:29 blahblahblahblahblah 😂

[@souhailshamaissem7564]

Should get the Chinese, they build any project in very short time and they can solve any construction problems very quickly and efficiently