The Dumbest Megaprojects in the World

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Which of these megaproject stories did you like the most? 😄Do you know of other failed construction projects? 😅

[@AffaanProz12]

Oh I am again on time Hehehe

[@muffinguy11]

ye

[@fabrifix10]

The complex Estrella del sur (in english: Star of south) in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina

[@GxC0mpany]

'appy hhaloween

[@majoroldladyakamom6948]

Check out the failed resurfacing project of the I-90 Bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, WA. Our law firm represented the Prime Contractor, The Traylor Bros. It was the third-level down (tertiary) subcontractor's fault. Some of their employees left the lids to a few pontoons open during a November storm, and it sunk the bridge. The Mediation for the litigation was held in our largest conference room, with Lloyd's of London and the other key insurance companies. My boss was in there, as well.

[@raven69600]

9 meters from an inhabited residential building structure?!?! That demolition team should be the focus of this video! Can you imagine the explosion engineers anxiety levels???

[@RishiKumarPS]

The surrounding was evacuated safely before.

[@raven69600]

@@RishiKumarPS that is obviously a safety precaution, but the risk to the buildings was still very real. One miscalculation could have caused the towers to fall the wrong direction.

[@martinszmidt6121]

@@raven69600 it's not that big of a deal tbh, at this point in time techs can tear down a building incredibly accurate the issue wasn't that the building might fall onto others but rather debris crashing into the side of the building that's why the explosions had been delayed from one side to another to create a sort of slide taking the derby away

[@raven69600]

@@martinszmidt6121 you’re overthinking what I said bro… just leave it alone.

[@MyVanir]

@@martinszmidt6121 You missed the point by more than 9 meters.

[@PUDRETE919]

My favourite dumb project is Austria building a nuclear reactor in the 80s before putting nulear energy to a public vote and it getting denieb by like 51 to 49% of votes, so they have a fully working unfueld nuclear reactor that is now used for concerts, events and even conventions

[@paulsoldner9500]

that suuuuuucks

[@sachinchauhan7775]

Hate for Nuclear Power was strong in 80-90s.

[@superomegaprimemk2]

At least it found another purpose and a much safer one at that!!

[@indahooddererste]

Since it was a Siemens reactors German powerplant Crews came over and trained there.

[@Jedittee]

Fucking ruSSian sponsored "ecologists".

[@Bogidani]

Little extra about Berlin-Brandburg: The had Ghosttrains driving trough the airport constantly using immeasurable amounts of energy and manpower for years to avoid funghi growth by adding to the airflow within the stations x)

[@AMD7027]

They also had the lights burning for years as no one knew how to turn the lights off.

[@mikoto7693]

Holy moly, this makes the airport I work at efficient.

[@tigrecito48]

new york had a ghost train in Ghostbusters

[@JackOfAllRAIDs]

@@tigrecito48 I was just thinking that. XD

[@SRFriso94]

They also had the TV screens for flight information on permanently, and they had to be replaced before even a single flight took off from there.

[@SomeoneFrosty]

I'm not sure how voluntary that voluntary demolition was, given the 9 year court battle to prevent it

[@JonasC22]

I assume it means destroyed by people intentionally, and not by some disaster.

[@ScooterinAB]

@@JonasC22 Similarly, I figured it meant that the buildings were demolished prior to use, as opposed to being shut down or decommissioned.

[@IncisionVision]

Such a waste of time and material over some rich babies views

[@ScooterinAB]

@@IncisionVision Pretty much.

[@toidIllorTAmI]

I thought it meant demolished a building that wasn't abandoned or even released to the public yet.

[@allmybasketsinoneegg]

I feel sorry for the crew running around a "new" airport trying to figure out why the hell the fire alarms are triggering in wrong sections.

[@tankerock]

I've done low voltage wiring and installation of such devices like fire exit signs, sirens ect. and sure the work can be challenging but it's also not hard to test your triggers in a test run.

[@bryanbrian1234]

Seems like the fire /safety inspector would do the test before the airport opened.

[@tankerock]

@@bryanbrian1234 Yes, even small commercial businesses require a safety inspector to signoff on a site before getting insurance.

[@NoSpam1891]

​@@tankerock Yep. I did HVAC control systems and it's perfectly possible for everything to start on time and under budget and work. If you control the install process and test as you go.

[@Rubashow]

I can still remember 2011 when they first tried to open than Airport. The entire city was full of massive advertising posters. It was a huge media campaign. The people responsible tried to sweep their failure under the rug literally right to the moment when it was impossible to hide it anymore.

[@obviousbear1289]

The thing with the running TVs was rather interesting to me because it touched on the field of tech support I was working on at the time. The main problem was that those were (despite what news agencies titled them) not what normal users understand as a normal TV. Rather they were single-purpose, 24/7, 365 high-visibility panels meant for a permanent display of flight schedules to be seen halfway across the terminal. They are never intended to be turned off, and once integrated into the power network it's pretty much done. So after those 5 years, they pretty much had reached the end of their natural life cycle. Not out of negligence, but simply because they had done their job and no one had been there to see it.

[@itisabird]

I can understand that they're meant to be on all the time, but I cannot believe that they cannot be turned off. It is as simple as cut the electricity to them, and I'm fairly sure that they'd work again once they were turned on next time. It would be dumb otherwise, because even if they're meant to be on all the time, a long enough power outage can happen and that would mean to replace every screen before activity in the airport could resume. And, if that's really the case, then it would be even dumber.

[@chadportenga7858]

There has to be a way to cut power to them, whether it is turning off a breaker (fuse) to the circuits feeding them, or something as simple as unplugging them (if they are not hardwired in). Otherwise, when one would eventually fail under normal operations, you would have to work on a live circuit to replace the faulty one.

[@toidIllorTAmI]

I'm still blaming the half-assed job the company who got bribed in did. They obviously took the money and ran- especially if there are no charges against their construction work. But maybe it's different in Germany?

[@benwherlock9869]

$8bn for of an hour of energy, well at least they're in the Guinness Book of Records now. 😂

[@chadportenga7858]

Makes me appreciate my electric bill, even if only a little bit!

[@toidIllorTAmI]

I want to know what exactly went wrong. Was it because they were using used waste?

[@InXLsisDeo]

And it wasn't even the worst of all japanese nuclear plants. Which was Fukushima of course (well aided by the tsunami, tbh).

[@varun_johri]

The Indian tower demolition was a great deal (idk why )...media broadcasted the demolition for a whole day , with slow-mo and even time lapse effects !! 😶🙂

[@MethLord]

Because it was the first such demolition of its kind in the country

[@Damien1_1]

@@MethLord nope . They did 4 (oelr was it 5) such demolitions earlier. One in kerala if i remember correctly. Even across the world there actually haven't been too many such demolitions. Not even a total of 20 I guess.

[@itisabird]

Maybe it was a quiet day without any relevant news, or there was a political scandal that needed to be silenced.

[@aparichitthestranger7907]

They somehow found it relaxing 🤣😂

[@adityaganjoomech]

Our media is dumb. Wait. I think media in every corner of today's world is dumb. So no big deal

[@Bozebo]

The Noida towers debacle doesn't even come remotely close to the other two in cost or scale. And there are hundreds more worse across the world :/

[@hurri7720]

I wonder if the guys building Stonehenge had the same problem with their project - "look guys this has taken to much time already, time to move on".

[@johnpotter8039]

I visited the Vajont Dam in the Dolomite Alps, north of Venice, this past summer. I had read about the horrific landslide and resulting 820'' high tsunami that overtopped the dam in October, 1963, destroying two villages downstream and killing over 2,000 people. The builders chose a very narrow part of the canyon and built the world's tallest dam, @ 860' The locals warned the engineers that the adjacent Mount Toc was noted for landslides. The work was completed and the reservoir was filled in 1961. Smaller landslides began, and SADE, the Italian Power Authority lowered the water height by about 100'. Cracks in the deep cliffs grew wider, and suddenly, late at night, October 9, 1963, 50,000,000 cubic meters tore off the mountain at 65 miles-per-hour and plunged into the lake, hurtling its contents over the crest. The dam remains, with all of its upper structure sheared off, accessible via a tourist catwalk. Once I had arrived, I walked down the steep trail to the upstream face of the dam, rearing about 100 feet above me. It was an eerie and profound experience, realizing that I was standing on 650' of landslide debris. I touched the wall and bowed my head to mourn the thousands killed. There are a number of interesting KZbin uploads, including two hiking/climbing expeditions to reach the bottom of the downstream face (a little too strenuous for me). There is an important message, carved into the entrance of the University of Wyoming Engineering Building- "Strive On- The Control of Nature Is Won, Not Given". Good advice.

[@adityabenwalca]

Those twin tower demolition was a field day for the media...

[@Cau_No]

Yeah, the old BER story … there were jokes about people wondering at the opening what it was needed for anymore since everyone would be using transporters by then. But names are Schönefeld and Tempelhof, somehow an L wandered around in the texts …

[@transit-future]

The most useless powerplant is Zwentendorf Nuclear Powerplant in Austria. It was completed but never went online.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

"Voluntarily demolished". After 9 years of court battles.

[@jacktheanimator05]

Keep up the good work 👍👍

[@marlonm.7939]

totally agree!!

[@gustavohernandeza.890]

Sorry to tell you that Tempelhof and Schönefeld are misspelled in your Berlin map.

[@friddevonfrankenstein]

Nothing to be sorry about. That is just sloppy af. Ctrl+C >> Ctrl+V, it's that simple.

[@virgiliovargas3052]

I can't wait for "The Line" to be here or most Arab projects

[@dyawr]

4:50 Wooow... why I never heard of this German disaster?! Honestly, if something like this had happened in my country, the entire society would've started: "Ah, we're good for nothing, this country will never be anything but an incompetent sh*thole!" etc... But it seems there *can be* & are problems everywhere. Including corruption 🙄

[@spacecube8561]

update - just recently i read about water pipe bursting in brandenburg airport. honestly, you'd really expect any government to just be like - okay we're cutting our losses here, raze everything to the ground and make a better, cheaper and faster concept for *A NEW* airport

[@Nemethon]

Stupidity, greed and corruption ensure the constant failure of large projects. Too much money makes too many people too greedy.

[@zakuraiyadesu]

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

[@gbraadnl]

1:13 Tegel, Tempelhof and Schonefeld. A mispalced 'l' ;-)

[@nuster7816]

Funfact: The German Berlin Brandenburg Airport ist already way to small.

[@nickmoulton446]

Demolitioned is the new Demolished

[@kencarp57]

You beat me to it! 😂

[@borntoclimb7116]

Nice video, the most of those projects are just a status

[@itisabird]

An airport and a nuclear plant are status for you?

[@avrinrose5457]

In my fictional world, all this project already finished and successful

[@ryanarcher9312]

One of my favourite channels 🙏🏻

[@marlonm.7939]

mine as well :D

[@geraldbutler4990]

As long as greed is involved the world will continue to degrade to its lowest point.

[@bomcabedal]

1:15 I see that one "L" moved house from Schönefeld to Tempelhof...

[@CochinKerala]

Neom - The Line will go down in history as the greatest mega project to fail. 👍🤦🏻‍♂️

[@TheAliXxD]

Will be the best mega project that succeeded. If you wanna bid, I'm down

[@stanfrymann8454]

@@TheAliXxD save your money

[@itisabird]

I'm quite sure that Saudi Arabia will find even bigger sinkholes to pour their money on. But yes, until that happens, Neom will be the biggest one 😆

[@ThomasCarlierPiano]

Hey fam! Can you mix to stereo (2channels) the audio of the fist footage(I mean, next time ahah)? It breaks my brain with an headsed, Ty!

[@kellymartin8090]

Well done!

[@Tantraloverful]

Berlin Brandenburg Airport is still a nightmare to experience.

[@Sashazur]

We took a flight out from there to London in September and I think we spent 2.5 hours just standing in various lines - and we were Fast Track! It was definitely a nightmare.

[@anthonvanderneut]

1:14 It s is Schönefeld (and if you can't write the ö, you can write Schoenefeld), not Schonefed. It is also Tempelhof, and not Tempelholf. Tegel is correct. Two out of three ain't good.

[@Glarf]

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station would be PERFECT for your video

[@johntakolander8613]

Here in Finland we have a tragicomical nuclear power plant construction project at Olkiluoto. It has been constantly delayed due to construction errors and technical problems.

[@Alan_Gor_Forester]

Sometimes experience can be very expensive.

[@sahilagarwal90]

The Japanese power plant was a much worse project. The issue in India was nothing in comparison. How can it be number 1 on this list?

[@haozzy]

mf called two 100m tall buildings a megaproject 💀

[@who9387]

"Demolitioned" that made me laugh ... it's "demolished"

[@shanenewton8560]

Whether it be construction or demolition, THEM in the know, getting paper...

[@marcussoininen2084]

None of these even begin to approach the vast dumbness of the fact that Dubai exists at all.

[@stanfordleonard338]

atleast dubai bulding still used

[@ML-vy8xo]

0:17 “demolitioned”? Is “demolished” not a word where you come from?

[@vahvahdisco]

The money spent and wasted on those towers in India, would have been better spent on feeding the people in the poorer areas of the country !

[@Zorcon741]

Number one: the maginot line

[@hgman3920]

The Maginot Line served it's purpose perfectly, which was to channelize the German attack into Belgium where the combined French and British forces could rush headlong to meet it.

[@lindley2008]

@@hgman3920 u haven't a clue what ur talking about.

[@lindley2008]

@@hgman3920 the line was supposed to be expanded through Belgium, Belgium said no, they assumed Germany wouldn't rush through a neutral country, they was wrong, it massively undermined the lines effecfiveness

[@mikatu]

Mate, the maginot might be a shame to France because it didn't avoid the invasion but it was enough to delay the Germans. They had to fight hard to overcoming it.

[@Rath_9]

This is why it pays to do things correctly the first time

[@connine]

This is why you need to think first☺

[@komplaints7893]

failures seem like massive wastes of money and mostly are, but you always get the lesson to not do it again at least

[@marlonm.7939]

What a video.. awesome channel 🔥

[@miguelostorga21]

I Like The Last One Because I Like It That It Looks Twin

[@nuuya]

it's called: Tempelhof und Schönefeld.

[@singlefather01]

As for #3, it must have been a monumental decision to delay to secure the safety of patrons. I praise their decision. #2. They have failed, but the heavy industries involved gained so much knowledge. Now they are billing small scale accelerated nuke reactors. Our history is filled with failures and triumphs. #1. It was a huge loss. But they know they will never make that legal mistake ever again.

[@Jack1994hoo]

It's India, I wouldn't be so sure about them not trying to do it again. It wasn't a mistake, they tried to screw over the residents and couldn't in the end.

[@aquariumkatze1773]

there is olso a power plant in austria in Zwentendorf, that never gone online.

[@willman85]

Surely the power plant should have been at no 1?

[@takaetono6773]

Its called Tempelhof and Schönefeld.

[@dianecripps204]

Irresponsibility and corruption... Not surprising for Japan's nuclear industry. The apology for the coverup was lacking in sincerity.

[@mikeka-leun7886]

Sorry, there is a letterswitch at 1:10 - the second L from Tempelholf must move to Schönefed. It's Schönefeld and Tempelhof.

[@stefanschneider3681]

BER at least DID open, as there were times when there were many voices suggesting to tear the whole poor thing down!

[@tiefensucht]

Would have been the better solution, same with Stuttgart 21.

[@mikatu]

That was the right decision, to tear everything down and create something correct from scratch.

[@Ms666slayer]

Man i just want to see the future videos when you will talk about Refineria 2 bocas, AIFA and the Mayan Train in Mexico, 3 useless Mega Projects that the current president is making just because his ego and thirst for power.

[@itisabird]

I'm surprised that you think that he might do it because of ego or to get power. For what I heard of him, he's involved with narcos, and even shaked hands with the mother of El Chapo Guzman. Megaprojects are the best to hide bribes and its 100% sure that he'll get lots of them.

[@m.s.9744]

The Line? 🤔

[@judysamaniego1606]

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[@sophiakimberly8244]

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[@gaiusclever1024]

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[@gaiusclever1024]

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[@sophiakimberly8244]

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[@at8537]

My favorite part is clubhouse footage that shows a nightclub. I wish my clubhouse was that way.

[@shadowhunter571]

Ayy another banger vid

[@marlonm.7939]

yees 🙌

[@louspowels7120]

0:15 the word you were looking for is "demolished" not "demolitioned"

[@MrRobarino]

The word for you is "Pedantic".

[@louspowels7120]

@@MrRobarino or "anal" 😘

[@terigonUSAS12]

twin tower demolition

[@Rob_Star]

why is 11/9 on this list?

[@jritechnology]

Should rename this to - "They didn't have enough bribe money in the end"

[@michelleaguirre6412]

😂 agreed 👍

[@Ping63ms]

14 years?!?

[@mahmutyilmaz6387]

Just a fun fact about the airport, the first airplane to Land wasn't even by the German carrier, it was an easyJet Airbus

[@arminhanik7229]

FFS, you got two of the old Berlin airport names wrong. So much for immaculate research.

[@MikeOxmellsGrimm8]

Big-ass bed sheets.

[@HenrikG1963]

This background music is way to loud

[@zenrar]

"Most useless Power Plant" should be the Nuclear Power Plant near Vienna, Austria. This Power Plant was finished, but never had seen an Atom of Nuclear Material. Today it is used as an Museum, since it is the only Nuclear Power Plant in the World which is accessible by Civilians.

[@noahralf2997]

I love this stuff

[@TwoWholeWorms]

I really hope they don't close down Tegel completely now that BER is _finally_ open. Schönefeld is in the middle of nowhere, and Tegel's security is right at the gates, as are the baggage belts, so you can be out of the airport within a few minutes of disembarking. It's just a nicer experience overall. >.

[@leisti]

Tegel shut down completely two years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tegel_Airport

[@zypie1]

All of these was caused by greed.

[@samuela-aegisdottir]

I dont think these megaprojects were dumb. The first two made sense, they just were poorly constructed. The third one was about a cmpany that dont follow regulations - that is dumb, but the towers themselves were not particulary dumb. Just too close to other buildings. When I speak about dumb projeckt I mean project that possibly cannot work, or that can work but are unreasonably expensive and useles, like the Line, or any 1km high skyscraper, or monorail, or megacity in a desert with no afordable housing or artificial islands which lead to both the errosion of the coast and the destruction of the submarine life.

[@AvatarRaziel92]

isnt its called: Berlin - Schönefeld ?

[@TheEvilGreebo]

Not sure how a court order constitutes "voluntarily demolished" but okay...still interesting. :)

[@adityaganjoomech]

I think they meant non-accidental

[@ScooterinAB]

It seems obvious when you think about it, but this does showcase that a nuclear power plan isn't exactly an on-off situation. Even when built and operational, that doesn't mean the plant is actually outputting any power.

[@L33tSkE3t]

Functional Nuclear reactors don’t reach Criticality (or at least not what’s called Prompt criticality) unless they are melting down, they reach sustained chain reaction.

[@jonathandorr2234]

I notice people , with no intent, shortstopped, by their quest for money, while everyones’ lives are un-served.

[@Jeahkir]

1:11 it's Tempelhof not Tempelholf and Schönefeld or Schoenefeld not Schonefed. I wonder how accurate the rest of the informations in this video are if someone is even overstrained with a simple copy&paste 🙄.

[@Wizzy959]

Also, I dont get the whole "voluntarily" part of the demolished twin towers. How is a court ruling voluntarily?

[@user-propositionjoe]

Saying a megaproject is dumb sounds more like it's a pointless construction. A waste of money/time with no use once completed. The German airport does not fit this category what so ever. There are hundreds of white elephant projects scattered around the world built for ego or some terrible idea. At least strict regulations and standards forced the airport to be done correctly. In many countries they would of just opened it, and now the airport will be used so how is that dumb?

[@rajiv_babbar]

Indian one was not voluntary. People fought to demolish and Court asked the govt to demolish it.

[@stanfordleonard338]

yeah but still waste of money because to build that building is expensive

[@adityaganjoomech]

I think that voluntary meant that the towers did not crash by any accident, calamity, or terrorist activity.

[@saathvikbogam]

ngl even I, an Indian didn't know Noida was an acronym

[@Darthvader9]

Becoz Indians are busy with wannabes stuff 😅

[@varun_johri]

I knew as it came in my general knowledge test in class 5th or so 😅

[@varun_johri]

I gues it's..new okhla industrial development authority or something?

[@mikeall7012]

Why are there tons of pictures of TMI? It wasn't even mentioned in the video.

[@Jack1994hoo]

Probably easier to find footage of TMI

[@Daniel11908]

6:41 what is this?

[@mitchkusek]

Please do a similar video on the Sydney Opera House. Financial, architectural, and overall shitshow.

[@Chaaos2]

The number number 1 (Indian Towers) should be number 3 and the number 2 (Japan Nuclear PowerPlant) should be number 1

[@TheGreatArki_]

why?

[@dawlesstech8904]

You're the only channel I repeatedly watch the videos of despite grammar, spelling, and pronunciation mistakes throughout.

[@mikatu]

thanks grammar nazi

[@redjeeper943]

Curious as to why, but most of the nuclear power plant footage is from the 70's and seems to be of the 3 mile Island power plant in in Pennsylvania that suffered a partial melt down.

[@hjk2639]

Surprising how many times the Japanese faced dangers with nuclear materials They already started growing crops in Fukushima and plan to release several thousand tonnes of irradiated water into the Pacific ocean. Chernobyl was deemed uninhabitable for 100+ years. Fukushima is growing rice and trying to export it to Phillipines/Thailand (cesium137 levels unsafe for consumption so the japanese don't eat it- only export it.. which is really messed up)

[@GPS379]

That's a lot of waste of many

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

Do like to hear about different things for sure.

[@batotit]

Can't they just chop the building in half and then use what's left as the core for the new shopping mall? Sorry, just thinking about what the dumbass developers can do to recoup their losses if it's me.

[@timsonxx]

The powerplant isn’t the least used. As far as i know in switzerland there is a nuclear reactor who is finished but was never used

[@Tjalve70]

I believe that one is in Austria. You mean the one that turned into an theme park? Tom Scott made a video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6XIaGaem6ijq7c

[@Novusod]

The dumbest mega project in the world is the California high speed rail project. Cost over 100 Billion dollars and will likely never be finished due to delays to cost over runs. To put it in perspective how big a waste it is. It's cost is bigger than every other project in this list combined.

[@mikegaskin5542]

Don’t write it off yet. Nobody has ever regretted building a high speed rail line. That cost is only theoretical as most of that money has not been spent yet.

[@Novusod]

@@mikegaskin5542 That is not true, they already spent their entire original budget. They keep asking for more money and the cost keeps going up. This is why I don't think it will ever be finished. California doesn't have the money and the Federal Government isn't going to pick up the tab. The only portion that will be completed is the Bakersfield to Merced section. The rest of the project is an unfunded liability with little hope of recovery.

[@vonfaustien3957]

Bold of you to asume the money was spent on the trains and not just embezzled away

[@stanfrymann8454]

@@Novusod Haha, just what California needed, high speed rail between Bakersfield and Merced!

[@bullgravy6906]

Follow that money, some local politicians got filthy rich on that one.