@@tomallen9791 He knows it. Why do you think he has over 3 million followers? Not everybody watches for the architectural goodies that are shown. But aging has kicked in and skipping the gym. So it goes..
@gullybull5568 Жыл бұрын
Stupid.jeeeeews.
@thehunterkirsch Жыл бұрын
There’s other videos from the engineers on the millennium tower which they say the real problem was that it was originally designed to be a steel frame tower and after the foundations were laid they switched to concrete because steel was too expensive. So the foundation isn’t designed for the weight of the structure and the foundation slab is actually dishing under the weight. They said the building will eventually fail but everyone in power is pointing the blame at everyone else and nobody is taking responsibility when it should be torn down.
@Monocultured01 Жыл бұрын
What's this video? It sounds interesting.
@Iceyfire12 Жыл бұрын
That’s just Disgusting! The most important part of a Building is the Foundation! They could be saved cost on the Building itself!
@apophisstr6719 Жыл бұрын
@@Iceyfire12 How cute of you (just a joke) to think that they didn't already cut cost for the building itself too!
@greatboniwanker Жыл бұрын
The steel was too expensive for the billionaire builders, the fix was too expensive for the builders...
@HTOP1982 Жыл бұрын
@@Iceyfire12 No, the most important part of a building is the profit. The foundations are other buildings issues.
@crazypyrokitty9 ай бұрын
I feel like a building should only receive a structural award after it's been up for at least 20 years without any integrity failures 🙄
@SchantaKlaus6 ай бұрын
Buildings should be sound for centuries, not just a couple of decades. Until we start engineering like the Ancients why bother? I never expect rewards for mediocre work, no one should.
@danilo0719835 ай бұрын
20 y is nothing
@samanthaleshikar90255 ай бұрын
@@danilo07198320 years is still a better test of longevity than 0 years (which is the current system)
@3321far Жыл бұрын
I am not an engineer, but it seems negligent to me that a tall, heavy sky scraper was not anchored to the bedrock to begin with.
@honeyyu1474 Жыл бұрын
Even you anchor it, foundation designed to carry the loads its either under or over design it will fail. Engineering is precise, no less no more. There are many factors to considered like windload, earthquake load and etc.
@brkbtjunkie Жыл бұрын
Plenty of skyscrapers around the world aren’t on bedrock.
@darkwater72 Жыл бұрын
There are many places where the bedrock is just too far away. For that matter, most buildings do not touch the bedrock. "A building does not so much sit on the ground as float in it."
@sparksmcgee6641 Жыл бұрын
Most are held by the surface friction of the piles along thier length not being supported from the bottom
@jjMcCartan968611 ай бұрын
@@honeyyu1474Earthquake code only applies to areas where that is a factor but the issue isn't the foundation its the change of the material make up of the building itself which the existing foundation was never designed to hold .I'd love to know who took the decision to go ahead with the new building without changing the foundation first .
@Goxilla Жыл бұрын
1 hour of B1M on a sunday! It´s like finding money in your pockets
@Guds777 Жыл бұрын
If we could buy stuff with B1M... :D :D
@Enzo187 Жыл бұрын
theyre just reuploads lol
@TungstenCarbideProjectile11 ай бұрын
It's Saturday you weirdo
@sethc4758 Жыл бұрын
Another worthy project for this list would be "The Harmon" built as a part of the multiple billion dollar City Center project in Las Vegas alongside the Aria, Waldorf Astoria and the Veer Towers. The Harmon was famously labeled the worlds most expensive billboard. The building was supposed to be 49 floors, until it was realized that faulty rebar and other construction work had gone unnoticed by inspectors and affected nearly 15 floors of the structure. So the building was topped off at 28 floors, and since it was 2009, right in the middle of the great recession and the vegas housing market was tanking, MGM decided to cut their losses and just abandoned the project. the building sat as an abandoned shell, and quickly caught the attention of advertisers who wasted no time plastering the shell with ads. it sat for 6 long years as evidence in a series lawsuits until it was finally demolished in 2015
@gorgorgonzales3090 Жыл бұрын
Can we just appreciate that Ron Hamburger resisted the urge and didn't end up working for McDonalds?
@hilarity12310 ай бұрын
I hear you but there is absolutely no way a person with the last name Hamburger would have Ronald as a 1st name.
@Klutech10 ай бұрын
What do you mean? Ronald IS his first name.@@hilarity123
@hilarity12310 ай бұрын
Ronald McDonald aka Ron Hamburger *sighs* was a joke.@@Klutech
@zaczayn33719 ай бұрын
McDonalds will become disastrous by then
@VTCharley134 ай бұрын
I hear he occasionally moonlights as a clown.
@J5L5M6 Жыл бұрын
That Simscale plug was quite possibly the smoothest, most legitimately relevant sponsor integration ever. Just another reason I love the B1M.
@w2ttsy670 Жыл бұрын
I watched that one through entirely and it felt like just another part of the segment, but Fred, you have to get rid of those art plugs. Not only is that a horrible investment strategy itself, but the synergy between your content and that offering is so juxtaposed that I can’t even see the benefit of having it as a sponsor.
@SchantaKlaus6 ай бұрын
All I hear is the Hecklefish - " Ooo, did you just segue yourself into today's sponsor?". 😆😆. B1M transitions are silk to Why Files hessian. But the fish is funnier 😛😘😎
@heyedddie Жыл бұрын
Construction on Jeddah Tower is being restarted. The developer is currently letting contractors bid on the contract to complete the tower. Deadline for the bids is the end of 2023. This was announced in September. (Source: MEED - Middle East Business Intelligence)
@Fony_turgeson Жыл бұрын
im a dockbuilder which is the union that does foundation work and drilling ....its sad to see cost cutting affect big buildings like this ...a foundation for a skyscraper should if anything be way over built beyond spec its the most important part the foundation
@SirSayakaMikiThe3rd Жыл бұрын
I have an irrational hatred of seeing supertall structures in empty areas. Skyscrapers really should only exist when space is scarce.
@danstrayer11110 ай бұрын
they are in the monument-building stage of their cultural evolution. It's a sort of ego problem
@zaczayn33719 ай бұрын
Even in scarce land skyscrapers r not needed, not welcome...only benefits the tiniest portion of population,that is its owner. Its the races between those billionaire to come up with highest (or some super features) as the brags right amongst themselves while us the ordinary joe pretends to keeps up with the Joneses -paids all the bills/cost. Worst, once its becomes building with fault, the residents will bear mostt of its burden. Whats kind of weird world we living now, and sheeple keeps talking abt justice, rights and fairness. Is there still anything as such?
@mikus424211 ай бұрын
I lot of people have gotten rich off the California High Speed Train. Going from 10 Billion to 100 Billion is one of the greatest bait and switches in history.
@MrNoneofthisisreal7 ай бұрын
In the nineteenth century, engineers noticed that there was a huge elevation change from the southern end of the San Joaquin valley and the hills (mountains?) just farther south. To transition they built the railroad way east into the desert and even built a section where the railroad crosses over itself in a big loop. The elevation difference is the biggest impediment. Hugely expensive to deal with. That is why they started the easy part first. In a relatively sparsely populated area we now have two major highways (Interstate 5 and state Highway 99), and an existing railroad paralleling the new 'high speed rail'. It ends outside of Bakersfield. This failure was entirely predictable. In fact, it was predicted. But there is no graft money in common sense. I'm glad I left California in 2008. No regrets. R
@erbigimbi99039 ай бұрын
Millenium Tower, back in June, the troubled tower became fully supported on the north and west sides by a total of 18 piles sunk into bedrock as part of the building's retrofit project. Monitoring data confirms the fix has successfully prevented further sinking.7 Sept 2023
@sifridbassoon Жыл бұрын
I remember being a child and going over the previous Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi. I was watching out the car window and we just kept going up and up and up. I was scared to death!
@loris7660Ай бұрын
I have the same memory. I always had a fear of the car sliding backwards, down down down until it crashed and exploded 😆 I was sure it was possible.
@greatboniwanker Жыл бұрын
When I was quite a bit younger, I was told one of my legs was shorter than the other. That doesn't mean I want to live in a leaning building.
@Jude74 Жыл бұрын
The best channel of its kind. No doubt about it.
@Moloxer Жыл бұрын
47:15 the very first moment this man appeared on screen, my respect for him became higher than for anyone else. I mean, look at that style!
@SergeMatveenko Жыл бұрын
Great compilation! An update on how things are going now for these projects would be appreciated, though.
@joshuapatrick682 Жыл бұрын
21:00 of course it works… hexagons are the bestagons!
@kcgunesq Жыл бұрын
Are you sure you didn't confuse cm with inches, because as I understand it, it has tilted over 29 inches, which is something like 74 centimeters. What am I missing?
@wsad13378 ай бұрын
you're not missing anything. the channel owner is misinforming
@unreliablenarrator6649 Жыл бұрын
I was wondering when you were going to get to the Millennium Tower. I can attest to the bucking sidewalks, plumbing hook stories in our local news, and of course, the hilarious finger pointing shootouts between the city, developer, architects, engineers and, um, can I say unhappy condo buyers? Non-stop entertainment.
@germainesf Жыл бұрын
And the complicit inspectors who allowed the developer to not go all the way to the bedrock for support. ugh...
@The_ZeroLine8 ай бұрын
I love finger gun battles.
@JustRaiHere_2023 Жыл бұрын
Good morning Fred, and thank you for an hour of B1M today! This was a much better way of enjoying my morning coffee. Cheers!
@harrypenn611 Жыл бұрын
You know its a good day when B1M uploads
@LittleMissSmallPaw Жыл бұрын
We have to take a minute and remember Ron Hamburger. He didn't die, but his career definitely did.
@psychoticAjAX Жыл бұрын
Damn, hour long B1M video. Guess homework will have to wait
@TheB1M Жыл бұрын
Haha, sorry!! You can blame it on us 😂
@babyfactory587 Жыл бұрын
there is a typo: Ron Hamburger is actually the chef engineer
@INTELLIGENCE_Revolution Жыл бұрын
I’ve wondered all my life how this doesn’t happen more regularly. And I always wonder what will happen as all of theses buildings age
@InfiniteEchos Жыл бұрын
Patch & repair. Tennants pay 😔
@PokerChuck87 Жыл бұрын
Especially in NYC
@ajv0987 Жыл бұрын
Where is the love for how hype that intro sequence was?!!
@jameswilson5165 Жыл бұрын
It's just a bunch of old videos strung together, but it's still enjoyable.
@arthurcaspel Жыл бұрын
No better way to spend an entire hour than watching a surprise long-form B1M documentary 😀(my final exam is in 2 days, study will have to wait)
@edp2260 Жыл бұрын
At 54:00 : I dispute that. I have lived in California my whole life, and have frequently traveled between the bay area and Las Angeles. It is NOT a pain to do this trip. Flying or driving is not bad at all. Don't exaggerate.
@whoever6458 Жыл бұрын
Keep in mind that the Millennium Tower is not only in earthquake country but in an area that has a lot of liquefaction in the case of an earthquake. They haven't had a largish earthquake in that area and I don't think that building will survive the next largish earthquake. I think they need to take that building down and start again. You put your foundation in first and it needs to go to bedrock, especially if you're building a huge building like that. No excuses. If you didn't put the building solidly on the bedrock, it's your fault that it's tilting and not the result of nearby construction, although I'm sure that didn't help since you built a building that is floating on clay, which is effectively quicksand if you get the right perturbation of the soil. This situation does not bode well for the future, especially when they get their next big earthquake. Luckily for them, we're more likely to get one down south but there will eventually be another great San Fransisco earthquake and this building and anyone around or under it is screwed when that earthquake happens.
@zaczayn33719 ай бұрын
What ever the argument and solutions will never b enough, since the developers already had a good deals with its financiers should anything bad happen. Ever heard a developer at this scales, who comes up with towers/skyscrapers proposals go bankrupt out of settlement? Nope?? then try research and if still not convinces, that means its rarely or almost never happened. They're coverED! The ones that bears the most losses, is the purchasers,residents and local citizens in general. Often times the financiers turns aways from loaners, insurances pays a sums thats absurds in figures, left the purchasers stranded in huge debts, while dealing with lost of lives if not unfortunate enough. Everything hints at the lost sides to the common ppl, never a win/win situation. Always, and if u denies this statement, its either u lacks of reading/ current world affairs, one 0f the cronies, or simply had too much hatred towards the humanity lol. And since all clues telling us to against it,and too many others ventures would benefits more than this...why then this craziness still happens worldwide. Maybe because simply, we are too Ignorant
@DragonsAndDragons777 Жыл бұрын
ONE HOUR OF B1M LET'S GOOOOO
@nicosnas Жыл бұрын
Keep 'em coming! 🍁
@TheB1M Жыл бұрын
This is incredibly generous, thank you so much!!!
@Em4gdn1m Жыл бұрын
1:18 I get that the elevators would no longer work.. but the plumbing part caught me off guard
@koharumi1 Жыл бұрын
Why won't plumbing work?
@kindlin Жыл бұрын
Imagine you have all these utilities, high pressure water in, sewage out, electrical conduit, etc. and the whole tower's side starts shifting relative to the ground next to it. Now, as said in the video, some vertical motion (settlement) is expected, so the joints have some give, the flexy-couplers have some length to go, but if you start doubling and tripling the settlement that was anticipated, and the problems will start to spring up like mushrooms after a storm. Not just water and utilities, but cracks, water infiltration, window damage, doors not opening, and eventually damaged rebar and possibly failing retaining walls and in the worst case, failing columns and even partial, or in some freak accident of mega proportions, total collapse.
@sstolt64 Жыл бұрын
Plumbing drainage lines require a certain slope to drain property, usually a 1/4" per foot. As the building leans alot of these lines will start leveling out causing sewer to start back flowing to floor drains and toilets, also sinks will no longer drain. At that point the building is uninhabitable.
@zaczayn33719 ай бұрын
Construction by far had to be the most corrupted field in many industries compared. I somehow amazed we r not seeing more towers, skyscrapers tumbling down like dominos. Not saying im look forward to that , too many innocent lives perish yet not all the responsible person's head rolls. Not fair... Since most buildings generally expected to last half century easily, im worried we going to witness those unfortunate events soon. But, by then, most that involved and responsible to commit such mistakes to max the profits, are long gone. Just left the residents to deal with huge losses (materially or lost of lives) and the ppl in general (due to tax increased by govmt to cover the losses), and the only thing to avoids this, is to avoid those as residential or business property. Take away the feeling of nonsenses prides saying that u r almost there successful to owns a small parts of the building (which will never be yours due to one sided mortgage, leasing t&c and all)
@brianthetowerguy97910 ай бұрын
The problem very few talk about is the fact Concrete towers don't absorb the sway meaning when under wind load they rock on their base this is the root cause as to why they lean. The Original World Trade Center towers had a 100% absorption rate meaning when they sway there was no movement at the base at all.
@TobyDeWit8 ай бұрын
After a long time of doing nothing there is update here on you=tube that last year and this year there is work in progres on the JEDDAH TOWER, but really i can't tell if i see any differents than in this reportage. Thank's to the makers of it. LOVE IT
@trudy__taylorandjorjamummy Жыл бұрын
A whole hour of Fred Mills?!!! And on a Sunday! I'm down for that! ❤❤
@TungstenCarbideProjectile11 ай бұрын
It's Saturday you weirdo
@EASYTIGER1010 ай бұрын
How do you build piles under an existing building without digging out a lot of soil and thus....further destabilising the building?
@thomasgardner2594 Жыл бұрын
Great to see longer videos coming out! Thank you ❤️
@eastockerable9 ай бұрын
Thanks. I am an aviation geek, but this is fascinating.......
@AngryChicKen-VIP9 ай бұрын
80 % of them dont give a dam about buildings x D
@troy3456789 Жыл бұрын
In an ode to Idiocracy (2006), they should tie it to one of the nearby buildings. 2021 was the start toward Idiocracy, so that would be a good start in my opinion.
@uraniumu2428 ай бұрын
One of my favorites has a cosmetic fix. The Stratosphere in Las Vegas has a dog leg. As concrete was being poored the castings were uneven on the north west leg once it was obvious, the decision was made to fix it by pouring concrete around the agfected area to give it the sppearance of being perfect. Apparently it passed inspection even though it is the tallest free standung structure in north America.
@ivanp2490 Жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the Oceanwide plaza in downtown Los Angeles. It started but was haulted due to lawsuits and has been sitting incomplete for years now.
@louisvillaescusa10 ай бұрын
The high speed rail in California is a total failure and the odds are that it will never be completed. California is heading for a long run of severe budget deficits and we don't have the electrical infrastructure to support it. Plus, it's not fully high -speed. According to the state of California: "In blended/shared corridors, trains will be slowed to 110 miles per hour, as required by regulations. However, speeds will top 220 miles per hour in other areas." Also, nobody wants to ride it.
@facingup1624 Жыл бұрын
Popcorn? At this time of day!? Perfect doughnut and coffee video though
@bobv82197 ай бұрын
I did the drywall and metal framing on this building in 2007 with a company called Anning Johnson Company. I remember it as yesterday. I believe it will never be torn down it’s been 17 years.
@TWOCOWS1 Жыл бұрын
Uh, the tower leaning in San Fran, while also sitting on the San Andreas fault. Lovely combination... Btw/ you forgot the Leaning Tower of New York!
@Cliffordhurst9517 ай бұрын
I cannot understand the point in building ever higher. Who wants to live or work at such a height. And what happens if a lift breaks down? Or water pipes fail, and how does one pump water to the top of such buildings? Thewhole thing is insanity !
@Saalmanzo2 Жыл бұрын
Another candidate for this infamous list would have to be the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro power project in Aus. Tthe project has blown out in cost 6x to AUD$12bn and one of the TBMs only tunneled ~50m before a complex sinkhole bogged it. That was 7 months ago and it still hasn't moved. Fixing this could cost up to AUD$2bn by itself
@Lukeasz096 Жыл бұрын
Wtf how do you spend $12bn and only get 50 metres?
@panamaJ Жыл бұрын
@@Lukeasz096they keep quiet about it mate.
@dfsilversurfer11 ай бұрын
Actually a couple days ago they finally got Florence moving again and running her in slurry mode which is what they should've done initially but I think the liars were trying to cut corners and dragging their feet. Perth was the same
@NS699626 ай бұрын
I don't remember subscribing to this channel, but I do remember hitting the notification button for new videos cause this is the best channel!
@nickthelick Жыл бұрын
Regarding the lack of America having a high speed rail network: I've never actually even thought of that at all!🤔 I mean, high speed rail links are fairly common on this side of the pond (I'm talking about everywhere Eastwards, not exclusively the UK). But yeah, never crossed my mind that the US doesn't have something similar... 🤔 Plus, the state of a lot of the US rail track isn't exactly uniform, that I know from watching documentaries on here! 😐 But there must be so much track considering that it spans the US in all directions, and there's lots of privately owned track still too, leftover from the turn of the 20th century... (So train operators [state and/or privately owned companies] have to pay tolls/fees/rent to use certain privately owned sections in some places. And the quality of that track is the responsibility of the track owners, and that quality can be shoddy to say the least!)
@livwake10 ай бұрын
Is the UKs network considered high speed? I know we have good connections but outside of HS2 I didn’t think it was considered high speed
@billwilson-es5yn10 ай бұрын
The US rail lines were our local and state highways that tied into the interstate rail lines when people and products were moved by horse and wagon over dirt roads. The railroads subsidized their passenger service with the profits made from hauling freight. Railroads ended passenger service when paved roads and motor freight carriers reduced the amount of freight available to transport by rail. The small short lines returned their ROWs back to the state who then either took up the tracks or left them alone. The major railroads also abandoned ROWs back to the states where some tracks were removed to have walking and biking trails while others just sit and rust away. Some states are leasing the abandoned lines to small short line railroads that shuttle cars between the major carriers and provide storage yards for idle rolling stock. The US still has passenger service where needed and where there's enough ridership to pay for a good portion of the expense. Those use the freight lines but still need government subsidies to stay in business. The US doesn't have HSR crossing the nation since the cost would be astronomical just to transport a few people each day.
@charlesrovira5707 Жыл бұрын
@40:40 I would tell them to get in touch with the firms that built the *Millau viaduct* in *France.*
@Rasscasse Жыл бұрын
Now that is one beautiful construction The perfect marriage of English architecture and French construction.
@hi__hassan Жыл бұрын
1 Hour of B1M? Holy Moly.
@Smibeanie Жыл бұрын
47:16 All this insane engineering and what really stands out in this video is this mans moustache.
@spinkey4842 Жыл бұрын
future prediction, you'll be doing an episode about the "The Line City" being built in the desert in a few years on it's failure
@nikiwalkey81147 ай бұрын
As a total height coward and sufferer of shocking vertigo I find these building projects terrifying.
@sliceofheaven3026 Жыл бұрын
I suggest Ron himself goes to live in the Millenium Tower if it is safe to live. It is easy to say it is safe to live when you arent living in there.
@zaczayn33719 ай бұрын
Yeah, many ,many more should tell that straight into that man face
@scronx10 ай бұрын
Another brilliant, breathtaking B1M show. Thank you!
@MatsNorway Жыл бұрын
Solid video. Well done and detailed.
@SuperUltimateLP8 ай бұрын
"Enormous weight of the glass and steel" 01:57 shows a picture of exclusively aluminium 😂
@andrewmiller4573 Жыл бұрын
San Francisco has much larger problems than a skyscraper. It's very sad to see actually.
@angusmackaskill303510 ай бұрын
1959 second narrows bridge in Vancouver collapsed mid construction killing 19 iron workers and one engineer. the new bridge is now called the iron workers memorial bridge
@newforestpixie5297 Жыл бұрын
in 1879 a 66 metre tall non reinforced Concrete tower was began & completed after 6 years of construction. According to the O/S it’s still 90 degrees vertical & it’s at the village of Sway 13 miles east of Bournemouth/Poole in SW England. It is alleged to be the tallest non reinforced concrete tower in Europe & offers views over the new forest & Solent to Portsmouth 22 miles east , the chalk downs of the Isle of Wight , the gateway to Englands’ Westcountry- Purbeck 22 miles west & if you know where to look , the illuminated red tip of Salisbury Cathedral 22 miles to the north. It offers Fantastic views on a clear day or night & nobody was exploited during its construction 😁👍
@tyronehunter7330 Жыл бұрын
41:38 when discussing One Seaport, the footage is looking from the east side of the building. The subsequent graphic shows the 3” lean “to the north” with an arrow that actually points south, if the provided footage is referenced.
@GazMoby Жыл бұрын
A Sunday B1M 🤯
@jasonallen153210 күн бұрын
Excellent program, thank you.
@MadridWalker Жыл бұрын
Your videos are soooo good mate! Thanks for sharing, wish you all a nice week! ☺☺☺☺
@ez83089 ай бұрын
Imaging paying millions of dollars for basically a fancy apartment and never having a flat countertop
@AngryChicKen-VIP9 ай бұрын
the ISS is perfect for that.. why build (international space station)
@LightspeedA113 Жыл бұрын
Haven't you heard? The Jeddah tower just restarted construction!
@scottmeredith33596 ай бұрын
The comment bots on this video are next level. “Wow and your video on Sunday? Thanks B1M!” And “I guess I’ll have to put off studying” appear so many times it’s like robots suddenly decided they love this channel
@DarkRRider Жыл бұрын
bro can u have a look on the latest Elbtower in hamburg? something went catastrophically wrong on this one. (René Benko is involved).
@CastorMutuku25413 күн бұрын
This video is gorgeous.
@jakobraahauge7299 Жыл бұрын
Oh, Honey! Make more of these! This dropped perfectly on my no-obligations Sunday 🍿
@freetolook3727 Жыл бұрын
@4:31 Something doesn't look right. The reflections in some of the windows are distorted unevenly suggesting that the indows are bowing under pressure. The reflections on the left are all even but on the right side of the building, they are uneven. This happens when reflective surfaces are twisted, concaved or convexed in shape.
@kindlin Жыл бұрын
Yup, I think that's why they took that video in the first place, and why B1m choose to use it in the video, it perfectly shows how many different things the settlement affects, not just the tower itself leaning a little, but all the utilities, cladding, mechanical equipment, or even just doors.
@clpen97 Жыл бұрын
Okay fellas nice job. Oh yeah and Mr. Hamburger will get things straight. Thumbs up!
@pilotgrrl1 Жыл бұрын
Not sure why anyone hires Figg to design and build bridges after the FIU fiasco and now this, in Corpus Christi.
@cliffbonds147210 ай бұрын
Always happy to see a B1M video in my video feed!! Such great content, with a very high production level. Keep up the great work!
@arctic_jake Жыл бұрын
girl my man just left my house its 4am half dr*nk and now im watching B1M purrrrr
@johnl5316 Жыл бұрын
Millennium Tower already has PLUMBING probs according to reports
@kimbye13 ай бұрын
Building upward 1000 meters in the desert where you have nothing but space is just mind numbingly stupid.
@EpicATrain8 ай бұрын
How come Hyperloop isn't in this list? It'll never become a reality and all associated companies have folded their projects.
@markstevens17292 ай бұрын
4:20 Oh my! That garage water infiltration was the prelude to the building collapse in Surfside FL. They’re likely going to need to dismantle.
@hellraiser666666 Жыл бұрын
The Millenium Tower in Vienna by the Danube, is also sinking. Seems to be a thing with "Millenium"-named towers^^
@BetaD_ Жыл бұрын
Do you have source for that? I lived next to it for a few years and never have heard about it....
@VTCharley134 ай бұрын
This entire new millennium is sinking quickly.
@kevinsears362 Жыл бұрын
Why didn't you mention Brightline Florida? How are those projects going?
@Rasscasse Жыл бұрын
It’s up and running, at least part of it. But to be classed as high-speed rail it has to do above 150 miles an hour, and it doesn’t. At least not yet, maybe it will in the future. It’s a good effort though.
@jonknestrick52193 ай бұрын
I moved from downtown Ft . Lauderdale in April just a few blocks from the station. It's definitely up with trains constantly running.
@glynnepritchard2526 Жыл бұрын
As an engineer that works on mega towers, the thought that architects actually do any of the engineering is a joke
@chrhadden Жыл бұрын
i dont know you but engineers dont have room to talk and a bunch owe me money for fixing their crap and making them look good without so much as a christmas card buddy
@glynnepritchard2526 Жыл бұрын
@@chrhadden yes because you would know how to calculate beam and column loadings for quatering....
@MusehanaH11 ай бұрын
Architect's are nothing but artists...They do pretty pictures 🫣
@danhernandez85254 ай бұрын
I live in Berkeley California..when I'm at the Berkeley Pier, I look out towards San Francisco and you can clearly see, with the naked eye, The Melliem Tower leaning towards the northwest...😂😂😅😅
@TheGweilo701 Жыл бұрын
I’ll bet ya the wish they’d gone down to the bedrock in the first place. Gotta love “cost savings”
@johnl5316 Жыл бұрын
prof at Univ of Calf at Berkeley have written hugely indicting reports on Millennium Tower
@lancelewis3381 Жыл бұрын
An hour? Perfect!!!
@luxushauseragency Жыл бұрын
Great line near the end - progress closer to a snail, than a bullet train.
@kcfreeman3021 Жыл бұрын
Ron's Hamburger sounds like an alias for Ronald McDonald.
@WmArthur8 ай бұрын
"History shows again and again, how nature points out the folly of man."
@barrywilliams991 Жыл бұрын
Millennium towers real problems started with the cheapskate developers not wanting to spend the extra 5 million dollars to get piles all the way down to bedrock. This was further compounded by the fixx not going the way it was planned and instead of using micro piling in the and underneath the basement slab like they should have they tried to do perimeter piling and it didn't work.
@netizencapet3 ай бұрын
When was this first filmed? It was posted in Dec. 2023 but says a certain high speed rail protect "is due to begin construction in 2021".
@Cloxxki Жыл бұрын
France: vast high speed rail network since the 1980s. Stretching into the rest of Europe, taking lost of tickets from air travel. USA: can't figure it out still.
@Tabula_Rasa1 Жыл бұрын
I took the Tokyo to Kyoto HSR. The Berlin HSR & Italian HSR. It is great for tourists to travel nearby city otherwise it would have been a skip. I hate traveling in plane. You have to drive to the airport, go through TSA, then wait for 2 hrs.
@mikesixx765510 ай бұрын
Or maybe it's because the distance between the UK and Germany is shorter than driving through Texas lol. Our country has states bigger than you all over
@zaczayn33719 ай бұрын
Yeah bigger be the problem when its can actually be an advantage. But the real problem esp when a country committed as a capitalism role model, is there's no monumental profits to those companies bidding for the project. 100% profit margin is never enough when u need to appoint a team of lobbyists, to 0rganised fund raising events, and more just to makes the relevant parties open an eyes to the proposals so on and forth. Other word, there will never b enough money to come up with a real projects that bring real benefits to masses, since there's not so much money in that,the best u could do is to come with half baked idea, pitch it with huge marketing and creates dreams, lobby it to the politicians, plastered it over with insane price tags and hopes the ppl didn't realized amid the fanfares,until its too late (approved by the Senate) then halts it half ways claims of under valued/running 0ver cost, asked for more money, twice or more..and hopes by then american accept it as their national heritage. Can someone tell me the last mega project done in america that generally accepted as brilliant project that many can claims benefits out of it, other than invading foreign country if that possible. Because many now argue the sole reason invading others country just to save its tanked economy, and the reasons are only come after, such as WMD threats and all. But its never wrong since its done right under its ppl blessing and nose.
@frozenrobert5735 Жыл бұрын
I kept getting distracted by the name of the engineer: Mr Ron Hamburger. They should rename the Millennium Tower to "Hamburger House". 🙂
@Kodakcompactdisc Жыл бұрын
Thanks B1M and Simscale, that’s the best hour I’ve spent in work in a long time 👍🏼
@Tom-sj3vn Жыл бұрын
wtf are you talking about
@Kodakcompactdisc Жыл бұрын
@@Tom-sj3vn doughnuts
@Digitalpiracy Жыл бұрын
at about 5 minutes in the voiceover says "3 centimetres" where the onscreen text says "3 inches - 7.5 cm"