The Biggest Construction Mistakes in the World

[@MegaBuildsYT]

Do you know similar construction mistakes in your country?🤔👇

[@jonathanblox]

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[@krisgonynor689]

The old Tacoma Narrows bridge in Washington state? Or that Great Lakes cruise ship that rolled over while still docked - killing 100's of people, all because they were all on one side of the ship?

[@wanttj]

The collapse of Highland Tower apartment building in Malaysia in early 90s

[@wc4109]

Champlain Towers, near Miami Florida, collapsed in 2021 killed almost 100 people.

[@taranggupta7256]

The construction of your house jk

[@jimmygrant3151]

We constructed a sandcastle on the beach. Unfortunatly, we built it too close to the shoreline, and surge of waves came in during high tide and washed it all away...two whole hours of work gone in a few moments. Fortunately no one was injured except the pride of my daughter whom to this day is still struggling with the drama that unfolded that day at the beach.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

Good job you didn't build a nuke plant on the beach too ...

[@audionmusic2787]

Thank God for our first responders. Pamela Anderson and the Hoff.

[@carlsaganlives6086]

Non-union work again...

[@pucmahone3893]

So tragic! Yet another disaster caused by climes change! LOL

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

Thoughts and prayers 😅

[@Saturnthroughstars]

I would say that all the fish dying is more tragic than the hotel's floor getting destroyed.

[@marilynhands1859]

Yes. Sigh. 😐🙏

[@savethebottle]

I was thinking the same thing. What a loss of living creatures that were left to die. Was that something that anyone even thought of or considered?

[@Fido-vm9zi]

Horrible

[@barbaraperry5023]

THANK YOU.❤💔

[@42k78]

I was shocked that the narrator kept talking about carpet being ruined and the hotel lobby getting destroyed. Weren't there like 1500 fish in that tank?

[@dietrich105]

I used to work on the top floor of the Aquadom building. To watch the fishes during breaks was really enjoyable and relaxing.

[@Querelle2008]

The least surprising was the Aquadom. People always underestimate water.

[@johndododoe1411]

They overestimated the strength of the plexiglass . They may also have underestimated the chance that a second oil/gas crisis would reduce heating in the surrounding atrium (this was the first winter after gas imports became problematic). A few details: 1. The acrylic construction details were kept secret by the specialist supplier . 2. Although surrounded by a hotel, the tank and elevated were both part of a general "fish zoo" next door, with a special route for paying zoo guests to visit the 1000 to tropical tank . 3. Fish zookeepers rushed in to save as many fish as possible .

[@Malik-Ibi]

Also not surprising... China

[@dasgibmekker768]

And of course it was built by a US company, as German contractors politely declined due to the high risk... 🙈

[@ironfist7789]

@@johndododoe1411 and they set up impromptu grills to take care of the other fish... j/k

[@mas5867]

1,700 lbs per cubic yd.

[@alexshabotenko7228]

You forgot to mention that the Tower of Pisa is not only tilted, it's also slightly curved, because architects tried to compensate the tilt by making one side of the upper floors taller.

[@pawelf1]

Also he didn't say that they stabilize the tower in 2001 and it's open to public again

[@ilanamillion8942]

The Tower of Pisa is truly a beautiful monument when you see it in person.

[@Will-dn9dq]

And the huge lead weights added to top of one side to try get it stable

[@robertyoung2819]

​@ilanamillion8942 Yes... When I was a child... My father was stationed in Germany... We traveled too many places... One was the "Leaning Tower of Pisa"... We walked up to the top of it... Doing the Tourist bit... It was a big spiral staircase for sure... Round and round...

[@JimBartz]

DUH!!!!

[@gtlfb]

The Pisa tower started tilting very soon after construction started. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t start over and instead continued building a tower they knew would never stand straight.

[@sharongagnist6428]

I have also wondered why they didn't just start over or at least dig a little deeper and add support.

[@robertfarrow5853]

Hubris. They tried to correct it and sent it the other way!

[@noelpucarua2843]

It is kind of like Brexit.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

But it is still standing

[@inisipisTV]

@@arribaficationwineho32- Thanks, Sherlock. Got the fact from Captain Obvious.

[@Texas40years]

The department store collapse was the direct result of greed by the building owner rather any of the construction companies.

[@geiryvindeskeland7208]

And what’s the point of add music so loud that it’s difficult to understand the voice?

[@jarlairess]

I'm not sure about a video like this, but I have heard and read in a couple of places that they do it to cover up a original music from stolen audio. I don't think it's the case here though I think it's just that they didn't watch the video before they posted it

[@CannibalSheepQc]

so obnoxious

[@SanchoPanza-wg5xf]

I didn't notice any obtrusive music. Are you one of those people listening with headphones instead of proper speakers?

[@mattbosley3531]

So how was Intempo a construction mistake? Bad management, certainly, but I didn't hear you mention any mistakes.

[@jbernabeus]

The lack of elevators was fake news, I don't understand why the video creators call it "construction mistake". A mistake it is, but theirs.

[@davidschutz693]

Also it looks stunning

[@freespiritable]

Spain is Earthquake prone area, i seriously want to see that during a shake. Edit, that's located in the most seismuc zone in Spain. 😬

[@pawelzielinski1398]

@@freespiritable I can assure you that you can build skyscrapers in seismic zones. Take a look at Tokyo.

[@molliwilson5639]

That aquarium story is very sad

[@CharlieFlemingOriginal]

Aww the fish!

[@mikeg3439]

My wife used to work with a lot of Chinese businessmen. They won't go on the record about it, but the stories they told us about how/why they would have failed/bad construction were fascinating. It has a lot to do with their culture being expert on finding scapegoats and that being an acceptable culture with them, combined with one thing: executives above you in their culture, expect only one thing from you when they call: assurance that everything is going great. If you do not make those mouth sounds to them, they find someone who will always make those mouth sounds to them. They don't care about reality. They only care about the reports.

[@DieFlabbergast]

I've heard this sort of comment on modern Chinese culture many times. What I would like to know is: how far back does this go? Did this sort of attitude/custom develop under Communist rule, or does it go back to pre-revolutionary China, maybe to the 19th century or earlier?

[@davidbarth80]

Same in Russia? India as well potentially

[@countryjoe3551]

That explains why so many projects and activities in China are built entirely upon fraudulent acts. I still can't get over all the ghost cities and green painted concrete chunks on top of pieces of rebar to fake growing plants.

[@powertrip6426]

Similar to America. Remember the Surfside apartments that collapsed in Florida not too long ago and several people were killed? Very sad and avoidable but to maintain buildings it costs money, and the American system values profits over people.

[@mikeg3439]

@@powertrip6426 Taking something that almost never happens, then saying it is similar to something that happens sadly way too often somewhere else, is not what I would call a fair comparison. There is a reason tens of millions of people in China desperately want to immigrate to the USA, and no one other than people with very specific job opportunities (which are drying up) wants to move to China.

[@lemapp]

In the 1980’s, a paper manufacturer discovered very fast growing trees in Brazil’s jungle. So they constructed a floating paper mill and sailed it deep into Brazil, because it was deemed impossible to build on the actual site. In the mean time, the company’s scientist reported back that the fast growing trees lacked the pulp needed for paper. So the trees were useless in paper making. The paper mill was left abandoned to rust and rot in Brazil. The equivalent of US$1 Billion was spent.

[@countryjoe3551]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Talk about putting the cart before the horse...

[@rosemarymonty5399]

Great pics of the Pisa Tower which really is a monument to Man - for making the building mistake in 1173 and then for working on the Tower thru the many years so that it is still standing in 2023. Quite an accomplishment.

[@kenhallermd8897]

If you haven't covered it elsewhere, I'd like to see a discussion of the collapse of the skywalks in the Kansas City Hyatt in 1981 included in a video. I had gone to school in Omaha in the years before that and was a frequent visitor to Kansas City so this had a personal resonance for me.

[@suzielynne9421]

I've only known about that case because it was featured by Fascinating Horror. It's a very interesting channel as it dives in to the bad engineering and kickbacks etc.

[@briant7265]

The original design had long rods suspended from the ceiling. The upper deck was to rest on (large) nuts partway down, and the lower deck on nuts at the bottom. This would have required most of the length of the rods to be threaded, and the construction company didn't want to deal with it. So the design was changed. The upper deck was on a short rod, and the lower deck was *suspended from the upper deck* by another rod. The joint that was supposed to hold the upper deck was then holding the full weight of both walkways. The original design was substandard. The new design could barely hold the empty walkways. Add a bunch of people, the joints holding the upper walkway let go, and both levels pancaked into the lobby.

[@EndlessSurprisesSD]

This started my interest in architecture. Then I got more interested in Victorian houses. I'll never forget when I first heard about the skywalk disaster, and they talked about the rods. Even though I had recently graduated high school without physics courses, I realized that would never work. It blows my mind that they were "too lazy" to thread a single rod.

[@Teverell]

I was coming down to the comments to see whether anyone had suggested the Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse.

[@softwarephil1709]

Having financial problems is not the same as construction mistakes.

[@kalsitokanal2853]

So the Spanish building had NO MISTAKES only economic global crisis

[@sergeantpeppers8858]

The tower in Pisa is actually bent. When they started building it again after a couple of centuries, they built straight up from there. You can see it from certain angles. I once watched a soccer game from the top of the bells. Could only see about half the field and have no idea who was playing, but had a good day up there.

[@EinChris75]

Neither the M building in Spain nor the Tower of Pisa are Mistakes. But you can add that "The Wall" building. Or that building in Florida which collapsed some time ago.

[@depresso9534]

RIP fishies.....

[@djpalmer31]

Hyatt Regency walkway collapse 1981 accident in Kansas City.

[@mattbosley3531]

You know there's a difference between a construction mistake and an engineering mistake, right? There was nothing wrong with the construction of the tower of Pisa. It was an engineering issue, that they didn't know the condition of the underlying soil.

[@alukuhito]

Way to be pedantic.

[@BPo75]

@@alukuhito Which is why you hire engineers when you don't want to wing it.

[@sumelar]

You know there might be an academic difference, but when discussing the end result it's the same thing. Right.

[@BPo75]

@@sumelar Wrong.

[@sumelar]

@@BPo75 What a brilliant rebuttal.

[@Fuff63]

Ten years in prison was too light handed for that greedy Korean dude. I mean, over 500 innocent people died. Prayers for them.

[@losveratos]

The narrator sounds more and more like an AI voice over the years here.

[@roy3tev]

Surfside condominium collapse happened here in Miami in 2021. Awful incident.

[@ivanleterror9158]

The collapse of the pedestrian bridge at Miami U.

[@norabatungbacal6636]

Why is intempo skyscraper included in this list? It has financial difficulties only. It wasn't a structural problem.

[@Bogidani]

That was a weird way to vizualize a 4° tilt with the 86° remaining to the ground. One may assume you dont know maths.

[@atimko123]

4° off vertical or off plumb

[@thomasharding1838]

Maybe he was trying to show how far it had to go to finish falling. Should be okay as long as some developer doesn't want to dig an underground garage next to it.

[@brahmburgers]

another: In Bangkok, Thailand, ....massive support structures were built for a train/tram to connect to their older airport (Don Muang), but the project never got beyond the supports, which are still visible, with rusting re-bar sticking out wildly at all angles.

[@fractode]

Pisa is a beautiful city to visit, despite all the tourists. [ haha, I was one ]. And it's not far away is Firenze (Florence). Together, they make Heaven. 🇮🇹👍

[@lukasrentz3238]

I remember the Berlin Aqua Dome incident quite well. I´ve seen it in the News in the early Morning and wrote a Message to a friend. He was immediately checking the seismological stations nearby and prepared a tweet which then went viral and got picked up by german and then international Media.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

Of all the projects shown here, that one seems the most glaring example of sheer stupidity. And for what? Decorating the lobby of a hotel?

[@boiivilla6327]

47 FLOORS....WITHOUT ELEVATORS ???? THE HELL....THE ENGINEERING IS ABSOLUTELY A PSYCHOPATH.

[@PsyckoSama]

Insanely fast, efficient, and record breaking... what a polite way of Tofu Dreg

[@Fleshox19-uz3qt]

Please do a video of the construction failures in China and see if they have the most failures out of all the Asian countries.

[@vittoriopugliese3352]

I am Italian but never visited the Tower of Pisa. Ironically, in my city, Bologna, there's a tower that is on the verge of collapse

[@daviddun1389]

Good work, I like the fact that you know what you are talking about.

[@distributorovkvlt-points5481]

A significant factual was made in the first 30 seconds of the video and that is India has surpassed China as the worlds most populous country, which occurred earlier this year. FACT! Good going Top Luxury guys......

[@lordorion5776]

i'd hardly consider Sampoong a mistake he had every chance to avoid disaster and continued to push it until it fell

[@theonetruerobb4852]

When I arrived in Boston for my first semester at a Famous Music School in 1975, I asked some new acquaintances where they were heading with lawn chairs and a cooler full of beers. Why, we're going to see the Show! they said. The Show turned out to be watching large plates of glass - windows - falling out of the newly constructed John Hancock Tower, something they did with alarming frequency. Today, the 'Cock is an iconic landmark in Boston. It's beginnings were a bit sketchy, though. Thankfully, no one died from this construction, ummm, anomaly. Nowhere near the tragedies mentioned in this vid, but a reminder that construction mistakes aren't always a 3rd world problem...

[@jassenjj]

3:36 - this graph with years 2006, 2009 and 2008 can cause you a headache :D

[@Wallyworld30]

Here are two huge Construction mistakes you missed. 1. Millennium Tower in San Francisco is now leaning 29 inches and continues to get worse in spite of the hundreds of millions spent in an attempt to stop the tower from falling over. 2. Surfside condominium collapse on June 24, 2021 killed 98 People. Surfside condominium is located in Florida.

[@Brainfryde]

The quality issue of China is a corruption problem. If the materials stated were purchased and used, I would say about 4 in 5 buildings would turn out fine. The last 1 in 5 buildings fail because of corruption through bribery and short cuts :(

[@HamzaSarwar_Arc101]

great information!

[@samkelomambisa1897]

Wow! 200m and only 47 floors for a residential building. Is just me, or are the floors high?

[@barbaraperry5023]

What I find incredibly sad is that when the aquarium burst, all they talk about was the expensive damage to the building,& how lucky it was that 'no one got hurt'... And not a SINGLE MENTION of any attempts to save the more than 1,700 fish; all of which presumably died gasping and miserable. 😢💔

[@a.walters123]

As much as people complain about governmental overreach in the US, you can at least rest assured that these kind of cut corners are few and far between because of our strict building regulations and inspections

[@dawlesstech8904]

The biggest mistake of the InTempo building was hiring a bedroom vaporwave producer to design it 🙊

[@sjTHEfirst]

We all know Intempo is actually the headquarters for either a superhero or supervillain.

[@JapChinLuvr]

I would recommend the study of the leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco in any future videos of construction failures.

[@Newdivide]

A hotel in Singapore called hotel new world collapsed in the 80s because of construction flaws

[@reachandler3655]

#3 Aquadom... the collapse was fatal to most, if not all, the fish!

[@jessicahannah2522]

What about the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans? So many construction mistakes. Not to mention city inspectors who submitted that they inspected the site, but were proven to have never (NEVER) appeared on the site. In spite of a number of people, including a site engineer, taking pictures of bent beams and numerous materials issues, and being ignored. Or the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas using none of the recommended fire safety devices (no smoke alarms, fire suppression, etc) so when a fire broke out on the main floor, the smoke filled the entire hotel via the HVAC system. Also the stairwell doors auto locked trapping people escaping inside the stairwells, where they died. Eighty-five deaths. Hundreds of injuries. All because a hotel cheaped out and didn't take fire safety or lives of their customers seriously.

[@leopold7562]

I dunno, I don't think I'd consider the Intempo Tower a construction mistake. It's hardly a mistake to start building something in a boom, only to watch the bubble burst and your money evaporate before you've finished. It wasn't a mistake that someone made a false claim about the lack of elevators. It was possibly a mistake that the second lot of constructors hit the wall while trying to resurrect it, without fully appreciating the magnitude of what it was going to take

[@TheOtherBill]

This video opens with talk of a housing shortage in China, completely missing all of the empty dwellings in the "ghost cities".

[@RyanBlomquist]

All those poor fish and sea life that died because of that mis planning with the aquarium, so stupid.

[@oldgregg86.]

Wow, 10 years for negligence that led to 500 deaths. That's almost a week for every life that was lost.

[@iskandartaib]

0:26 - they've been overbuilding for years. There are entire cities of empty apartment complexes that no one wants to live in. It's catching up to them, several large developers are going bankrupt.

[@davidjordan2336]

Calling the Tower of Pisa one of the biggest construction mistakes in the world is utterly absurd, and putting it at Number Two is even worse. If anything, its construction was marked by a series of almost miraculously good choices that enabled them to overcome the intrinsic limitations of the project. Today we tend to chalk these decisions up to just dumb luck, but I think that's kind of condescending. These were smart people, who understood that they had a problem, and came up with good practical and creative ways around them. They periodically stopped construction, which gave the ground a chance to compact and become stronger. They added curvature as they went up, which greatly reduces the strain on the bottom floors. They used lighter building materials and voids to lessen the weight, using the heavy marble only for a thin veneer. They observed how the tower reacted to what they were doing and adapted accordingly. It's only been in modern times (starting late 19th century) that big mistakes have been made. And the thing has been standing for close to a millennium, so they clearly did something right. How many of today's buildings do you expect to be around after that much time? Other than digging too shallow of a foundation, they don't seem to have done anything wrong, and even that was was conformant to standard practices of the time. It was just that the ground, which superficially appears solid enough, is actually too soft to support a tall tower. But they had no way of knowing that. What's so impressive about this structure is how they turned that unexpected initial misfortune into such a great triumph. This is an absolutely gorgeous building, as is the whole grassy piazza around it. And the one in Spain doesn't seem to have any problems at all. The company building it just ran into financial trouble, so it took a while to complete. Do you understand how many centuries the great cathedrals of Europe took to build? It's okay for a building to take a while to be fully constructed.

[@klalithsaireddy6690]

indian is the most populous country not China

[@WouterB76]

The south Korean people must be very happy with Americans giving it's capital so much soul.

[@HolloMatlala1]

10:00 Africa has yet to host an Olympic Games. Other major geographic regions that have never hosted the Olympics include the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Central America, Antarctica, and the Caribbean.

[@kenmcd2014]

The first and last items were not mistakes. They were wilful disregard of saftey measures, together with corruption of saftey officials. There was no mistake and only a matter of time before people were going to die of their greed.

[@ecospider5]

Making the aquarium in one segment was just dumb and arrogant. It could have easily been 4 layers and no one would have noticed, and the pressure at the bottom of the aquarium would have been less than half of what it was.

[@colbyjames7255]

I remember learning in school decades ago that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was meant to lean in the first place. That it's foundation consisted of a huge sphere, haloed atop with a dense ring through which the tower was built. I can't find anything to confirm my memory on this. Mandela effect maybe.

[@naomi5418]

Only sentenced for 10 years??!! Unbelievable

[@tronicman1]

Been once inside the aquarium, it was a wonderful experience. Or the big highway bridge that collapsed some years ago in Italy. Btw, wasn't there a collapse of some residential building in Florida just some years ago?

[@oscarinacan]

The Great sandcastle debacle of ought six..... so much innocence was lost that day

[@avrinrose5457]

In my fictional world, all projects in this video are successful

[@davidgivins4203]

The aquarium is a beautiful display of gravity inability to hold water Gravitationally as the water bursted through the glass and gravity failed to keep the water from spilling out!😊😅😂❤❤

[@greenAbbot]

You start off with “As the most populous country in the world, China has to keep up with the ever-growing demand for housing and infrastructure.” I count at least three mistakes in that sentence.

[@mountainman5025]

The aquarium issue sounds like what happened to the Titanic. The metal was welded hot but put in cold water, causing the welds to melt. {Something like that}

[@john2477]

Has nobody heard the slogan, "Good, fast or cheap. Pick any two"?

[@akhildalal1849]

lemme tell u some more wonders that the world still doesnt recognise as architectural marvels: ❄Manikarnika temple in India, has a 9.4 degree tilt ( nearly 5.4 degree more than pisa tower) and is also a few meters taller and centuries older than the leaning tower of pisa, but bcz of the location of pisa tower in Europe, the world recognises it as a world wonder rather than actual one ❄Brideshwar Mahadev Temple is India is several meters tall without the use of any binding agent, the structure stands on only interlocked stones for centuries and with a single 80 tonne boulder piece on its top, and no technology in todays time can put a 80t rock on several meters high in one piece, and Indians did this centuries ago ❄The famous Ram Setu that connects India and Sri Lanka as a bridge was built 100s od centuries ago with a rock that wasn't found in the regions within 100s of KM of radius from the engineering marvel ❄The Kailash Temple in India is a one single massive structure carved into a mountain with no single joint or crack in it, its a whole mountain carved into a temple, and many more 🌹🔥 India alone has more surprising and awesome engineering marvels, than the whole world combined

[@HenrikKarapetyan]

Only 10 years for trapping 1500 people under rubble??!! Really!? Years ago an African American homeless man stole $100 from a bank branch. He turned himself in next day saying he was just hungry but he wasn’t that person to rob others. Returned the money. Got 12 years! Maybe this is why some people take justice into their own hands.

[@donaldaxel]

If I understood correctly the "Deutsche Bank" building in Berlin's "coldwar-wall-area" was a mistake, because the ventilation ideas did not work. But perhaps they rebuilt the systems for ventilation. The originally idea was a glass facade outermost and there the air could circulate, then the inner glass / steel wall had openings/windows for ventilation. My memory and understanding of this may be at fault. Google does not help.

[@claudermiller]

10 years in prison. Too bad the US never punishes the people responsible for this kind of thing.

[@deewhite7987]

The owner of the hotel, with the aquarium that busted should be charged with all kinds of animal neglect for them poor fishes😳

[@DavidMcCoul]

The background song at 9:45 is "Missing Pieces" by Dream Cave

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

so what was the construction mistake in your thumbnail???

[@tm13tube]

There is a tower in San Francisco is sinking on one corner or side. They are observing it while tenants still live there. They say the pilings are not sitting on bedrock.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

The Spanish disaster looks like a plumb Bob waiting to crash

[@mayorb3366]

That fish tank held about 1,100 tons of water.

[@BennettBramson]

I lost five friends in the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida on June 24, 2021.

[@ryanscott2363]

The Manila Film Center - a project of the Philippine Government, is one the most famous construction disaster of all time in the 1980's.

[@stampeaceful]

You lost me a number two. How was that one of the biggest construction mistakes in the world?

[@Excremental_Discharge]

Right? It should be on a list for "Construction Projects That Were More Hassle Than They're Worth"

[@Vitoandolini13]

I climbed it in the 70’s. Some serious rubbing as people passing in the thin passageway towards the top

[@johnanderson8096]

The Leaning Tower of FRISCO!!!!

[@amehu]

WTC towers 1, 2 and 7, in Newyork, September 2001, fatal freefall collapse from an incident which shouldn't cause such catastrophic failure. Especially tower nr 7 freefall from some office fire.

[@ErichBowers-b3i]

Tell us something about the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea 🇰🇵 🤔

[@idw9159]

so what was the mistake with the benidorm monstrosity?

[@youtubehandlescostmemyusername]

I've always secretly despised the Leaning Tower of Pisa. They abandoned it because it was crooked and would cost more to clean up than it was worth. Then they needed it so badly 200 years later that they couldn't just start from scratch. Even if it was straight it's nothing special, crooked it's an eyesore. So many beautiful things to see in Italy, I hope they have really good food nearby this landmark to make it worthwhile. Is it just me or is it an ancient joke?

[@trueriver1950]

Good food? Like a leaning tower of pizza perhaps?

[@davidchurch3472]

It is no wonder the Radisson aquarium burst. Everyone knows you cannot use just acrylic panels for such a construction - it needs to have Transparent Aluminium panels, at the very least.

[@Cold-Blooded-Jay]

Not going to say a word about the 1500 tropical fish that suffocated to death on the floor and street. I hate it when people think human life is the only valuable thing in the universe and the lives of other animals are worth less than dirt.

[@andyzhang2649]

Imagine you killed 500 people, and only sentence you got is 10 years. WOW

[@kurtb8474]

6:32 For those of us who live in the United States, 1 million liters is 270,000 gallons.

[@HorseMaster23]

Wait..... so, #5 mistake led to the total building collapse and #4 mistake led to.... a delay ?!??!?! What??? R u kidding ????

[@sceetherthenadder]

11:47 When you think your revenue will be greater than the lawsuits you’ll have to buy.

[@alexmeanin8049]

Try the case of st. Laurentian river bridge collapsing

[@lonewuhf]

Just a heads up, @ 2:35, supervising is spelled wrong.

[@NewLegacy93]

It's not necessarily a big mistake, but my parents lived in an apartment building up in Halifax Canada that had an empty pool on the roof. The engineers had accounted for the weight of everything needed for the pool except the water so it had to stay empty.

[@largol33t1]

It's a relief that they caught the mistake just in time. That's scary. Did you know that a reason most cruise lines have a very shallow pool is simply because of the weight? Only recently did technology improve to where they could install two pools on cruise ships. I believe Virgin was one of the first to have two pools on its ships.

[@hudsonhousejournal7063]

Soooo it became maybe a skate park for kids. 😁

[@jackgunn1480]

I would consider that a big mistake.

[@bsherder]

@@hudsonhousejournal7063 That's both hilarious and scary at the same time. I bet kids would try to use it like that anyway even with the possibility of going over. Probably dare each other.

[@supertuber120]

How do you not account for the water when it's a pool? I mean you build something for a certain use yet forget to keep that use in mind while you're building it.

[@SuperBenkoo]

The Swedish warship "Wasa" was ready built in 1628 set sail the 28th of august that year and sank 10 minutes later...we have a whole museum about it. It's very famous. Well worth a look.

[@iconicshrubbery]

So did Henry VIII's' the Mary Rose' warship, salvaged and preserved in a museum.

[@takeboo888]

It's a Vasamuseet.

[@orchidorio]

YEAH! My kind of thing!!! Thanks

[@alukuhito]

This is about buildings though, not ships.

[@robbannstrom]

@@alukuhito ...and yet ship designers are called naval architects...