Most Expensive Construction Mistakes In The World

Ever heard about the Shanghai apartment block which toppled over in the middle of the night? What about the London office block that accidentally transformed into a deadly heat ray? Today we’re donning our hard-hats and exploring the most expensive construction mistakes in the world.
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[@zew1414]

Not construction errors, design errors.

[@railroad9000]

And throw in greed!

[@michaeldunwood5907]

i was going to say the same thing - apart from the rebar mis-installation in the vegas one, they are all bad planning/design/maintenance issues.

[@gtw4546]

Burj Khalifa not being connected to the city's sewage system and having to ship out the raw sewage by truck convoys deserves a mention!

[@guidedmeditation2396]

I agree. That really is an epic and ridiculous fact. They really should have fixed that by now 11 years later.

[@ScarabChris]

Yeah no kidding. LOL. There are several videos on YT showing the non stop convoy of "poop trucks" hauling the sewage away from the city. I believe there are several buildings in the area with the same issue. Amazing......multi billion dollar building and no connection to a sewer system. Imagine if there is a tanker truck driver strike! LOL

[@onotad]

You have to be kidding?

[@guidedmeditation2396]

@@onotad It is true. There is a huge two mile long caravan of POOP trucks that hauls away sewage from the building every single day. When they built it they ran out of money so they cut corners and decided to use trucks every day. They figured when they had cash later.. they would install a sewer line but later has come and gone many times and still they haul poop. It is a huge caravan no less.

[@onotad]

@@guidedmeditation2396 LOL, good job they have no shortages of HGV drivers :)

[@GB-go6gp]

If there was ever a name to curse a building, it would be 'Millennium'. I was sent to "fix" the Millennium Tower in Seattle, after a window washer noticed that part of the façade under the windows in the penthouse we're about ready to pop off. That was caused when one of the header beams was installed upside-down. (Structural steel beams are made with a camber on top, so when the walls, fixtures, etc. are placed, the beam will flatten out. Next time you see an empty flatbed trailer, notice the hump in it, which will settle when loaded) So, instead of the header beam flattening when loaded, it was sagging enough to cause pieces to fall off. The best we could do was to jack up the upside-down beam up until it was flat, put about a million brace between it and the beam below it, and as Ironworkers like to say... "weld the 'S' out of it"

[@dinaboop]

Well, thank goodness for observant window washers.

[@adonisvan4328]

California high speed rail deserves a spot on the top

[@25fpslagger81]

Can you explain?

[@watcher-someone-awake]

@@25fpslagger81 yes, it runs from Bakersfield to Merced, 'nuff said...

[@douglasmckee9574]

Right

[@pquach00]

Agreed 😊

[@virgiliogo1169]

@@watcher-someone-awake There are two reason one cost and opening up the Central Valley and decreasing density along the coast. This is not a bad idea.

[@ENGBriseB]

London's 20 Fenchurch Street. It's not called a pint class. It's "The Walkie Talkie"

[@station240]

After the melted car incident, it became "The Walkie Scorchie"

[@chrispaw1]

Im a local Londoner and i’ve never heard anyone call 20 Fenchurch street the Pint Glass….ever.

[@misstakenot9582]

Nor me. "Walkie Talkie" is a common term.

[@emrebennett2857]

Same... People call it the Walky talky

[@BukuiZhao]

The first clips in the video were intentional demolitions not unintentional mistakes leading to a collapse.

[@ben3989]

You should note the date of these items. When discussing “galloping girdy “ you show the current and safely built modern bridges over the Tacoma narrows giving the the viewer a real misunderstanding.

[@kennygee5958]

“Everyone thought I was an engineer......” 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️4:15 😂😂

[@alancarre7590]

You should have included Montreal's Olympic Stadium, aptly referred to as "The Big O". Oh what a disaster that was... still paying for it today.

[@benjaminlujan3789]

A 50 story building that will last 300 years will be better then a 100 story building that will last 100 years. The construction will Costly for both. What do you think?

[@jakeg3126]

this was a crappy list

[@fozzybear8878]

Australia is ot a young country, by the way- it is at least 40,000 years old, and the original inhabitants- the Aborigines- have been here for all that time.

[@benjaminlujan3789]

Did they come from Outer space 40,000 years ago? Maybe, they were shipped, by Rockets, then, told , " This is your new home" -----" we can't stay long", ---- " You are on your own" -----" Goodbye, and GOOD LUCK". ---- " We are leaving now", "We Have a long trip ahead". " TAKE CARE".

[@Fieldsonyoutube]

II always heard 20 Fenchurch street was nicknamed the "Walkie talkie" tower block, untill this video was the first I heard it as the "Pint Glass"

[@philosophkadser]

You could do an entire video about german buildings, like Berlin airport, Stuttgart 21 and so on.

[@wernervienna]

Please do not forget the geothermal deep drilling in Staufen - one hole and the old town crumbles

[@gerardomoonshine4984]

Seggele 😝

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@tomross9947]

The one in fenchurch street is called the wallow talkie building not the pint glass broski

[@andyhill7612]

Its was nicknamed the pint glass during construction, broski

[@dakrawnik4208]

Did you just show controlled demolitions at the beginning???

[@NickCBax]

I’m pretty sure the Tacoma Narrows summary isn’t even accurate. The cause of its collapse was wind induced oscillations, it got completely redesigned, not just a stiffer road deck.

[@colinpovey2904]

There is a similar bridge in Maine. Fortunately, it was constructed after the Tacoma Narrows bridge was finished, so they were able to install something to prevent the swaying.

[@chickey333]

"Is there a common thread to all of these epic construction fails..." Yes... either humans overlooking something or humans looking the other way.

[@JuliusUnique]

5:02 18 inches? pls use metric units lol

[@chrispaw1]

Can you Eff Off…..i’m happy with inches.

[@JuliusUnique]

@@chrispaw1 wie wärs wenn du f offst, dann bin ich glücklich mit deutsch du kind

[@eltonbritt1502]

45 cm

[@bjoernaltmann]

20 Fenchurch Street is called “the walkie talkie”

[@valtteripennanen4043]

the common term for all these construction mistakes is "faking it until making it, unless proves otherwise"

[@clavo3352]

A common thread. Duh; Greed, maybe? That German Airport reminds me of the Tesla factory. Not enough bribery payout!

[@danielpalmer8713]

The Chicago Tower was not originally called the Amoco building. It was named for the Standard Oil corporation. Chicagoans referred to it as "Big Stan."

[@leafii.]

Not me literally being surprised by the Sydney opera house when it was made after an orange slice-

[@taytk8005]

@Leafit More like 🍎 Apple being sliced

[@BeerDad69]

$102 million dollary-doos? Tobias! Did you spend 10x the budget for a kooky opera house that is filled with cunts?

[@DarkVoidIII]

I visited the Sydney Opera House when I was a young lad, and it was not the Sydney Opera House you see today, back then they were still finishing up construction of many parts of the access way to it. That building was still having it's finishing touches and adjacent areas long after they'd actually finished building it! 😊👍👷👷‍♂👷‍♀🏗🚧

[@leafii.]

@@DarkVoidIII oooooo. That’s cool. When i visited it last, there was a very small auditorium for small performances and gigs. I never been to the big one but I love the Sydney opera house. I think it was getting renovated at some point

[@whoisKF]

Do you know when the opera house is built and the Canberra New Parliament House that you use here is built?!

[@nomenclature9373]

Should have mentioned the sinking Kansai Airport. In regard to the Millennium Tower, attempts to drive stabilizing piles has increased the tilt.

[@gilbertfranklin1537]

Yes, there is a "common thread to all these epic construction fails" ! They all wound up on Tech Vision's "Most Expensive Construction Mistakes In The World" - now, did I win a prize? 🏆😁

[@tomclark7023]

Mark my words, the Three Gorges Dam will top the list someday...

[@jakeg3126]

Do you watch or keep up with the up-to-date water levels of it monsoon season?

[@touqeerahmed4032]

Next do the cost of taking down Trade center buildings or asbestos removal project from such a goliath towers.

[@iteerrex8166]

What about the World Trade Center building #7?

[@wernervienna]

the worst building of all. A small fire and it collapses with barely 1g

[@iteerrex8166]

@@wernervienna Exactly lol

[@DroneTuber]

It’s not mentioned Central Vista Project

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Haste makes waste

[@dave-d-grunt]

Skyscraper in ST leaning. Already around 2”

[@paulbongcac4961]

No Bataan Nuclear Power plant?

[@davidpalmer5166]

The common thread on all of these projects is that I didn't have anything to do with them. This is some funny shit. Can't imagine the ass chewing that went with each one.

[@MagnetOnlyMotors]

Engineers think they are the be all and end all to anything. And realize that every thing always works on paper.

[@Jodyrides]

These are what happens many times when you build to a price point. planning & studies by Top people is expensive.. . But that which ought to be done and isn’t - is more expensive..

[@huedoppler1]

All Architects should learned about why building was fell in the pass !

[@HugoTron]

Wrong planning, worrying more about money than actual end goal and mideocre logic in engineers. Fix this and there you go

[@chatvendertechnology]

Hope they have insurance. Waste of money

[@ThomasHoellriegl]

Form follows function, not the other way. Would be better, I think.

[@findingretreat]

@ 5.07 "millennium tower in San Francisco" is not shrinking , its sinking.

[@255f145c15w]

It's sinking, leaning, and now the news says it's also sliding!

[@heene]

Amoco! That's a name from the past you never hear any more. Wonder what happened to them.

[@Richard-zc1cj]

I doubt insurance paid to replace the granite on the building in Chicago.

[@ronbo30]

Common thread? Yes! Called greed

[@pourattitude4206]

$ over any other concern is the common thread. Including the one with a fake engineer since he would've been exposed as incompetent long before the projects ultimate failure.

[@Claudiozee]

Appreciate the brevity of your inputs for being catchy with the audience, however, the story of the Sydney Opera house has quite a bit more to it, starting from the fact that the competition was an 'ideas competition' only. No real intention to build anything out of it. Then a politician decided otherwise.. and the story goes on. Utzon did a remarkable work, also on site, and the same politicians with their ignorance, sacked him and stuffed up its completion. ... More to it

[@jakeg3126]

I think this is a crappy video/list

[@cmwHisArtist]

Lies, inexperience, bribery, greed, politics.

[@0fficialdregs]

i thought it was called the walkie talkie

[@alcamerc9923]

In not too distance a future, this video will include the Millennium tower of San Francisco. What gets me about this project is that foundation engineers were most likely aware of the soil potential for a failure. They took a chance. A costly one. Let’s hope no life will be lost when this thing comes crashing down, in the middle of the night. God I hope no one is lost.

[@GH-oi2jf]

It does include the Millennium Tower. As of late June 2923, the building has been stabilized with supplemental piles on the west corner.

[@WizardlyDanny]

Greetings time traveler from 900 years ahead! Wow, it sure took them a long time to finally fix it.@@GH-oi2jf

[@rickbray7100]

The common theme is crappy engineers

[@jakeg3126]

its storeys a British spelling of stories? or was that an unexpensive editing mistake

[@deanflet973]

It all comes to Greed and Inadequate Management.🤑😒🤥😡

[@jodyfulford8215]

Add egos to that.

[@ByBilgihan]

How about Jeddah Tower ?

[@fuzzjunky]

I think you mean "ABJECT lesson"

[@simonalison1014]

Nope, I looked that up - Object Lesson is a thing ....

[@fuzzjunky]

oh my lord

[@CesarGarcia-ru8hr]

Title error

[@sergebizimana4082]

Construction is the largest industry in the world that's why we have to pay full attention in everything we build on this planet or we'll lose everything: Money,Time and People for not paying attention before we Start any construction project.

[@bartklaassen9605]

It’s all about the money

[@codeaperture]

Shanghai Tower 🤣?

[@bill90405]

Aon (Gaelic for unity) is pronounced “A-on” its not an acronym.

[@Romeren]

How about the fail of Elon Musk' "hyperloop/underground taxi service on a track" it was nothing like the proposals and promises, it cost way too much and it was probably the slowest tunnel to be bult in modern time.

[@mikeohandley6765]

PPPPPPPP - Piss poor prior planning precedes piss poor performance

[@testing-je7yz]

How does 3 million close to 1 billion?

[@albinotravalja7942]

Whenever and wherever government gets involve in things that they shouldn’t …..things colapse…..always…..

[@Vit7910]

The common thread was Ill-fully placed Trust

[@janosvarga962]

Yeah, still but meanwhile microsoft made the deal of the i don't know ever ???

[@charliecallcut2219]

3:29 - In China we build building stand up or lie down

[@Peroo85]

The most expensive construction mistake is The Soviet Union.

[@boaz63]

It’s not pronounced “the A-O-N Center”. The company name is Aon, pronounced “A-On”… 😅

[@jakeg3126]

crappy list and video

[@annagoldman1163]

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[@hoshifuyo4494]

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[@chrisjohn7823]

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[@mav3420]

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[@ibrahimfaizan6047]

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[@alexmontrey5372]

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[@p_louis]

Huh? $6 million in 1940 is $1 billion today? Explain your math.

[@Bob.martens]

Not only was Sydney opera pporly plannee, it's acoustics are actually crap...

[@A.Rose.G]

What wasted effort. I think I feel a bit sick🤦‍♀️Any woman on these projects? Looks like weak planning, money hungry, theft, payoffs or untrained inspectors, probably dismissed concerns, egos, possibly drug use.

[@gregh7457]

lol, talk about ego's

[@A.Rose.G]

@@gregh7457 Why? Because I asked about women? Not ego, was just curious. Can't say these projects were a success.

[@greedier-7661]

U could just call this video china's construction . With how many things break itself in china.

[@fourmula4812]

star trek movies over star trek seazons -__-

[@benjaminlujan3789]

Construction is risky. Going to MARS WILL BE VERY RISKY! " Many will die".

[@gregh7457]

that's why i nominate YOU as a volunteer martian

[@benjaminlujan3789]

@@gregh7457 MARS IS COSTING TOO MUCH! ELON, WILL NEVER GO TO MARS!

[@benjaminlujan3789]

Elon, will never go to MARS!

[@benjaminlujan3789]

Milking our tax and money suppies!

[@janklaas6885]

🇺🇳4:17

[@certi.e7]

dd

[@winmancan8374]

Greed

[@gordonclark7632]

A designers desire to build something that is as big as his ego. A planning decision made under questionable circumstances, untrained, unqualified people making decisions and of course as soon as any Government department gets involved in the planning decisions. I ask, what else can go wrong?

[@mur4s4m3]

There are much more tofu-dreg projects in China than shown in the video

[@gamh03]

Tech vision already not tech channel and take every content, if you really want to cover construction go to BIM or anything related tech.

[@sarinovia3977]

We think that failed architecture project, buttt that be icon for some country. Who knows right..

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