Thank you for covering the East Palestine disaster, our own gov has barely told us a thing so, many will surely flock to your video, ty for what you do!
The fact the first-floor columns were beginning to crack while the building was still under construction should have been a huge red flag that something was seriously amiss.
Designed to withstand 15 floors adding more than 1/3 of the weight will overcome the safety factor. And using tofu-dreg materials wouldn’t help either. The problem of using imported technology from the Far East.
If someone tells me that I have to go and fix the columns on the 1st floor, on a building that's not even finished I'm handing in my resignation and going home...
@xxdesertstorm Really??? What!?!? That is not how the real world works? I didn't know... Watching this video where people died, didn't give me enough of a hint that the real world is f**ked up... You should maybe use a xanax or two and calm down... Also woke? What does not wanting to die have to do with wokeness?
Seriously. I travel to Central America quite a bit, and I'm all too aware of it when I'm going over a bridge (constructed when, inspected ever?) or staying in a high-rise apartment (in a country with world famous corruption).
@@danielle3064 Add in the odd Sharia Law Patrol ensuring the non-Arabs are kept in their proper station, the odd street raid by a machete gang and yeah, pretty much Jersey the same: Way overpriced, sensible people were made to flee long ago, then just becoming more of the same.
if you have spent any time in Africa and Asia, none of this is a surprise. Collapses like this can happen when everything is being done correctly. But in a low/no governance environment--or what one might call a high corruption system--the real question is not why did this collapse, but how does anything actually keep standing.
@@greyfells2829 True, Dwarves don't like seeing the sun, so they go deep underground. At the same time, Elves wouldn't build with _stone_ and _metal,_ ew. No, I think this was the first (and only) Dwarf-Elf building collaboration project...
It's the "Urban Growth Boundaries" that don't allow development outside an arbitrary line. I believe they are called "Greenbelts" in the UK. Which makes sense, as it's a belt that is strangulating the UK to death.
Same guy also built buildings here in South Africa? I've been avoiding large malls and high-rise buildings for exactly this reason - and this I started a long time ago after they seriously expanded the one mall in Pretoria, and another, unrelated mall had a roof collapse. With this lovely government of ours, and corruption out of control it is only a matter of when and where...
1990s: "Isn't it great how South Africa now isn't ruled exclusively by whites." 2020s: "Please ignore that the average SA Black is now worse off than under Apartheid."
@@Archangelm127 Hi, for all appearances things looks good, supply is stable and all that. What they don't tell you is that there are lots of localized problems, such as cable theft, substation vandalism which causes local electricity supply issues. This trend is on the increase. Adding to this is the inability of ALL ANC-led wards and municipalities to pay their electricity tariffs. We are not out of the woods yet, things are going to get nasty and uglier. And to exacerbate all this, water is also starting to become a major issue, with some wards and municipalities going for more than a week (even more) without clean water.
@@emilschw8924 Glad to hear the power situation's a bit better... but the water thing is truly concerning. Leaving aside dehydration or whatever, bad water is how you get diseases. I'll throw a few more prayers your way.
here in a few months all of America's infrastructure will be subjected to the same standards as Florida! Im sure there will be plenty more topics for Plainly Difficult videos 😅
@@1978garfield maybe not, but Trump has historically shown to go against worker safety rights, and plans scale back or remove OSHA and MSHA regulations...
@@1978garfield maybe not, but Trump has historically shown to go against worker safety rights, and plans to scale back or remove OSHA and MSHA regulations...
Genius really, skips right to the part where the building falls on a guy instead of having to wait 50 to 100 odd years. A true innovation in time saving, and you get to start bidding on the next contract right away. *chef's kiss* /s
no wonder that one firm dropped out of the project. they knew something wasn't right. I'm also starting to wonder about the credibility of his education in the UK.
It said he was studying for a HND, that’s a higher national diploma, which is equivalent(ish) to the first year of a degree. Even if the subject was engineering he was no where near qualified to supervise construction. I agree it’s no wonder the other firm dropped out
@@ChristmasCrustacean1doesn’t greed (for money, power, or popularity) count for a lot of people’s ‘faith’. Yeah, if someone thinks they have ‘god’ on their side, I do NOT trust them.
11:37 Replacing column can be done, with extensive planning by engineers on where to brace the building to take the load before doing it. Check out the Davenport Hotel collapsed, the collapsed happened after a repair on the load bearing wall, investigation found it was not done properly, the load path was not redirected to where it should be and it blown out.
So he built 50 projects in London and Manchester before going to Lagos and continuing ....... That means an average of 6 months per project and does not include "several estates" built abroad! Does anyone else doubt this timeline?
A Nigerian pulling a scam? I'm shocked to learn this could be true... Next thing you'll be telling me the Nigerian princess I've been talking to is actually a man trying to steal money off me, and she doesn't really want to marry me and give me US$30m...
The photograph at 8:53 is very revealing. As someone who has worked in the building trade and who has some training in concrete structural engineering, what stands out to me is the appearance of the broken concrete in the image. If you've ever demolished structural concrete you would know that good concrete breaks with mostly jagged edges. The rounded and powdery look of the broken concrete in lower middle of the image tells me there's not enough cement in the mix. Another interesting detail is the exposed floor rebar on the bottom left of the image. It looks like the impact of the collapse broke the concrete away from the rebar without tearing the rebar itself. This should NEVER happen and is another indication of how weak the mix is, likely due to insufficient cement.
Florida has them beat in the Self-Irradiating-Roads market though Also in the radioactive waste poured onto public highways market, which is concerning larger than zero dollars per Earth
"let's add floors, until " test columns " brokes, then make new better one's on no more floor's... " whooooop, I go back to my shoe business..., byyeee! "
@@marhawkman303 He apparently got greedy on that last one. :( But the engineering firms and builders should have all been in criminal court for not preventing the extra floors from being added. Even without City approval, the builders should have been like "NOPE! You can't just add floors to the building like this! We're done until the engineers approve this work!" But apparently that never happened either.
Glad I left it years ago. None of the people I know from uni are doing good, except those who had generous parents who helped them get houses - real houses - in the 905 suburbs.
Jeez, I was pretty young when i figured out that if support beams are removed the blocks go boom. Please send baby building blocks and tinker toy to nigeria stat.
@@Teverell "Self-Deconstructed" makes me laugh. It reminds me of of the term they used for Centralia PA, Subsidence. Which is geek for "land that is suddenly not here anymore."
Notice your precious regulations didn't stop him. By the laws on the books what he did was illegal. Better enforcement would have helped. More rules and regs he could ignore and buy his way out of would not have made a difference.
Maybe "Faith" should be added to the bingo card. It seems likely Femi Osibona's hubris was his religious belief that he was supernaturally destined to be successful and exempt from the physics of mere Earthly engineering.
Back in the late 1950's I grew up in Lagos and got to know the Ikoyi area well where the boss of the company dad worked for lived in luxury, where as we lived in a much well heeled area amongst nigerians who were my friends. Even then buildings were falling down or close to collaps and were haphazardly repaired or strengthend to prevent total loss. Nothing has changed. since then, it only got worse.
It's coincidental that I just found out about it through a Nigerian content creation a couple days ago. Crazy how immense the collapsed was, yet I knew so little about it (in contrast to the Surfside Condo collapse just months earlier). The only silver lining is that it collapsed during the construction phase, and not when it's already completed and fully occupied.
Has that Prince of Nigeria ever sorted out his financial difficulties? Apparently, he stood to inherit a vast inheritance but first needed to pay some fees. He needed just enough to cover those fees, and then he would happily reimburse anyone who "loaned" him money to pay his troublesome fees. 😢 I hope he's doing alright 👍 😂
@@randallreed7415 His sister is going to marry me, and then they can move all their riches out into my bank account. Just need to find another $10k to send her so she can buy a plane ticket to get here.
Because $1.5 in London only gets a person to the very bottom of the upper class. But that same money makes someone insanely rich in Nigeria. If I had that kind of money, I would also probably stay in my home country (Hungary). There's also the question of social capital. We've all seen rich foreigners in London, LA, NY, Paris, but no matter how much money they have, they'll always look like wealthy weirdos because they're outsiders and don't understand how to flex their money in a socially beneficial way.
Waiting somewhat anxiously for a review that reaches the exalted "10" on your Disaster Scale. Presumably you'll be covering the event from the afterlife 😀
I'm so angry at a local housing project. It was the only higher-density-than-house buildings in the area except for a few 'projects' and one old-people high-rise. It was supposed to result in 2-3 bedroom apartments at good rates, but partway through the builders decided to lie to the 'city' and convert it to higher-priced apartments (they tried to blame it on using vague terms in the grants etc, but they deliberately lied about what they wanted to charge). The concrete of the building is literally done, and they were working on wiring before just... abandoning it, without even cleaning up. It was the only higher-density building near the center of the "city", and the greasy sleazeballs just couldn't help themselves. Something like 120 affordable housings, just gone. I hate people..
I knew that Lagos is a corrupt place but I never dreamed it went as far as dangerous and over ambithios construction methods or if anyone could even be that plain stupid. First there was six floors then twelve finishing with twenty one. No wonder it fell down. Removing lower level surpport coloums didn't help. This one was a shocker. Thanks for posting John....
It feels like people wake up and suddenly become whatever they want , you don't need qualifications, just become a construction manager, get a few cowboys to knock up some concrete posts and you have started your career in building a high rise block of flats. I don't think i would ever go in a building above one floor if I was in Nigeria now
How can anybody who has ever played with any sort of building material (Lincoln logs, Jenga, sand, mud, sticks) think, "Oh, let me pull out the bottom layer and everything on top will just stay where it is with no visible support"? How do these people get jobs in construction?
Our company started the building of a new sky-scraper. The foundation is made out of legos, as it's much faster and easier for the workers to build (even my 4 year old can build towers, houses and bridges, so i expect the workers to be able to do it too). Will provide more updates in time.
"People flooded the scene, pawing through rubble, and rescuing survivors" : Shows picture of people texting on their phones whilst blocking an ambulance.
When an engineering consultant jumps ship and speaks about the concrete quality indirectly. You know that they’re detaching themselves from eventual failure.
Regards housing in the UK. Social housing for people who cannot afford eye bleeding costs? But that's for the peasants! I wish I was joking. Remember the main reason Grenfell was 'renovated' was so the rich people who lives across from it didn't want to look at an old council housing building. Notice the same style of tower block that is *not* visible to the rich people was not renovated.
Lagos isn’t Nigeria’s capital. It is the largest city and financial centre but Abuja is the capital. It was developed to move the government away from Lagos and bring it closer to the rest of the country: a bit like Brazil did with Brasilia.
I thought for sure this was gonna be about the 2014 "Synagogue Church collapse", also is Lagos. Also about a building that should never have been built
Given that they apparently planned to replace the pillars, I'd say "Temporary Fix" should be checked off on the bingo card too. 😕 (My mind is still blown on the "knock out pillars and replace them later" thing. Just... wow. I thought I was clueless about architectural engineering. Wow.)
Hi John, there was a good feature on “The Detonators” documentary series a few years ago about the (careful) demolition of a fire-damaged bank high-rise in Lagos without damaging a nearby historic church. You should look at the failed Ocean Tower high-rise project in South Padre Island, Texas…. built on sand, started leaning, had to be demolished…..
Suggestion in the light of last month's Tropicana Field roof disaster due to Hurricane Milton: The Metrodome Roof Collaspe(s), Superdome vs Hurricane Katrina and the 1985 Silverdome Roof Collapse
I gotta respect the guy for one thing: he went down with the ship. He very likely knew how sketchy the project was and stayed on site at the offending tower. He easily could have ran away and managed it from an office, but he didnt.
What I don’t understand is his apparent history of building other projects especially in the UK. You would assume from that background ( if it was indeed real) he would have a basic understanding of what conditions to avoid…. But maybe he just figured the state inspectors are just out for personal profit and didn’t serve any other purpose. Or maybe he just learned that many persons are very gullible to a fast talking con man.
It's funny that you start off with a shot of the Croydon Tram, because another person I follow, fellow London resident Jago Hazzard, released a video today on the history of Morden Road station and how it dates back to a horse-drawn waggonway built in 1807 or thereabouts.
Reinforced concrete columns and beams are not the cheap reliable alternative to structural steel we once thought it was .it is fraught with problems created by rebar degradation and its 5 times the load of conventional steel structure
An unscheduled rapid disassembly… by the way, I hear your rant about those buildings around the East Croydon station, but at least I think they look good on the outside.
9:58 it's impossible to be certain in a video, but that broken concrete looks like concrete washed out of a mixer not actually poured in a structure. Concrete with poor/low content cement.
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Thank you for covering the East Palestine disaster, our own gov has barely told us a thing so, many will surely flock to your video, ty for what you do!
>Structural engineers quit and concrete samples are missing
> first floor columns need replacing
> "this is fine"
😂😂😂 "but profit"
>six floors to 22 floors
I would leg it in no time...
I bet they got away with this cause workers weren't educated and needed money to feed themselves and families 😢
not profit, it's just black engineering. 🦧
The fact the first-floor columns were beginning to crack while the building was still under construction should have been a huge red flag that something was seriously amiss.
The chinese architects said it was normal.
its a poor country why would anyone care #COMMONSENSE
Ya think🤪😵💫
@@xxdesertstorm bro stop
Designed to withstand 15 floors adding more than 1/3 of the weight will overcome the safety factor. And using tofu-dreg materials wouldn’t help either.
The problem of using imported technology from the Far East.
Random Public: "So was it his own stupidity, or negligence by someone else?"
Plainly Obvious: "Yes."
😂😂
Not quite fair to fault the government inspectors: they Said… Stop…. He just ignored them
@@davidhatton583And? Why weren't they shut down? Saying "stop" does nothing if theres 0 consequences.
If someone tells me that I have to go and fix the columns on the 1st floor, on a building that's not even finished I'm handing in my resignation and going home...
not how it works in the real world woke might want to use some #COMMONSENSE which you lack
@@xxdesertstormare you ok?
@xxdesertstorm Really??? What!?!? That is not how the real world works? I didn't know... Watching this video where people died, didn't give me enough of a hint that the real world is f**ked up... You should maybe use a xanax or two and calm down... Also woke? What does not wanting to die have to do with wokeness?
@ComicMelon I don't think he is okay!
I think we found a shady Nigerian developer.
Knocking out a Support column on the first floor for replacement at a ‘later date’ is so mind numbingly stupid. What? Why?
Like cutting off your own leg in the middle of a foot race.
At least first put in a temporary support column!
Called third world
@@dekoldrick"I'll get my prosthetic later!"
In the way? Aesthetically unpleasant? Abject negligence?
Thanks to PD, I got past my fear of radiation, but I can't say the same for my fear of high-rise buildings. Nice video tho
Happy days!
Seriously. I travel to Central America quite a bit, and I'm all too aware of it when I'm going over a bridge (constructed when, inspected ever?) or staying in a high-rise apartment (in a country with world famous corruption).
"Oh, they only fall down occasionally." -- some wag
They only fall down once.
@@markh.6687 "That's not typical, I'd like to make that point."
Whenever you hear a building has had an increase from x planned floors to x+n floors, run for your life.
Three seconds in and I am already in tears 🤣 British deadpan humour at its best.
Thank you!!
So is Croydon like the jersey of the UK?
@@danielle3064
Add in the odd Sharia Law Patrol ensuring the non-Arabs are kept in their proper station, the odd street raid by a machete gang and yeah, pretty much Jersey the same:
Way overpriced, sensible people were made to flee long ago, then just becoming more of the same.
Removing load bearing construction in the lower flor of building that was desighned to be much less tall, what coud go wrong ? 😲
Exactly 😅
Well it was cracking, and you can't have that! Besides, they had multiple of those columns capable of carrying the load...
_"Is this a load-bearing window?"_
if you have spent any time in Africa and Asia, none of this is a surprise. Collapses like this can happen when everything is being done correctly. But in a low/no governance environment--or what one might call a high corruption system--the real question is not why did this collapse, but how does anything actually keep standing.
All the engineers were also patently incompetent from the start.
Can't stereotype entire continents like that - if something collapses in Japan, for example, it's generally because there was a strong earthquake.
He mentioned a high corruption environment. I don't think Japan qualifies.
Or Florida
@@markh.6687 Same with Champlain Towers South in Florida.
“Like all good disasters, we start here in sunny Croydon”. I can see that on posters for UK Tourism!
The dwarves delved too greedily and high, and awoke a terror of gravity and rending metal
This feels more like Elven hubris
@@greyfells2829 True, Dwarves don't like seeing the sun, so they go deep underground. At the same time, Elves wouldn't build with _stone_ and _metal,_ ew. No, I think this was the first (and only) Dwarf-Elf building collaboration project...
@@greyfells2829 Pretty sure this is just orcish construction and industry.
@@WackoMcGoose it's in nigerland.
They are orcs.
6:41 Basically they're saying, "We see the sh*t is about to hit the fan, therefore we are stepping away from the fan."
I appreciate the little line where they don't accept any responsibility for any errors! they knew exactly what was going to happen
As a priced-out, ex-pat South Londoner, totally agree with you about the damage done. Have no fear of brief side-tracks.
I agree with you about South London. When I go back to see family I feel claustrophobic from all the densely-packed "luxury" highrise blocks. 🤢
It's the same deal in every big city, unfortunately. The beautiful bits of Toronto I used to love are just towering "luxury" cubicles now.
@@thing_under_the_stairs reminds me of the Judge Dredd comics/movie.... hmm.... I wonder... was the writer of that setting a Londoner?
@@marhawkman303 Do you remember who wrote the comics? I have a vague memory that they were English, but I'm not sure...
@@thing_under_the_stairs hunh, just looked it up... John Wagner, actually born in the US and raised in Scotland. Hmm.... now I'm even more curious.
It's the "Urban Growth Boundaries" that don't allow development outside an arbitrary line. I believe they are called "Greenbelts" in the UK. Which makes sense, as it's a belt that is strangulating the UK to death.
Same guy also built buildings here in South Africa?
I've been avoiding large malls and high-rise buildings for exactly this reason - and this I started a long time ago after they seriously expanded the one mall in Pretoria, and another, unrelated mall had a roof collapse.
With this lovely government of ours, and corruption out of control it is only a matter of when and where...
1990s: "Isn't it great how South Africa now isn't ruled exclusively by whites."
2020s: "Please ignore that the average SA Black is now worse off than under Apartheid."
Yeah. How's the electricity supply where you live these days? Haven't heard an update on that whole thing in a few months.
I read this comment with Ninja's accent, the Die Antwoord guy not the streamer. Made it much more enjoyable.
@@Archangelm127 Hi, for all appearances things looks good, supply is stable and all that.
What they don't tell you is that there are lots of localized problems, such as cable theft, substation vandalism which causes local electricity supply issues.
This trend is on the increase.
Adding to this is the inability of ALL ANC-led wards and municipalities to pay their electricity tariffs.
We are not out of the woods yet, things are going to get nasty and uglier.
And to exacerbate all this, water is also starting to become a major issue, with some wards and municipalities going for more than a week (even more) without clean water.
@@emilschw8924 Glad to hear the power situation's a bit better... but the water thing is truly concerning. Leaving aside dehydration or whatever, bad water is how you get diseases.
I'll throw a few more prayers your way.
As a Floridian, I 100% approve of the Floridian building slander lol.
here in a few months all of America's infrastructure will be subjected to the same standards as Florida! Im sure there will be plenty more topics for Plainly Difficult videos 😅
It's not slander when it's factual. Slander imply intentionally lying with malicious intent.
@@ikonic_artworks Building codes are set at the state and local level.
Trump can not and will not rewrite all the building codes in the country.
@@1978garfield maybe not, but Trump has historically shown to go against worker safety rights, and plans scale back or remove OSHA and MSHA regulations...
@@1978garfield maybe not, but Trump has historically shown to go against worker safety rights, and plans to scale back or remove OSHA and MSHA regulations...
"With god on my side" If you're relying on divine support, then you you can't be trusted to be doing a good job.
It sounds like divine intervention😇
And now he can't even say he's on the side of God... 😂😂😂
"god" obviously didn't think much of his construction techniques!
Divine support is fine, but I'll take proper structural support any time. And God probably agrees.
Inshallah!
“Self-deconstructing buildings” 😂
Kind of like "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly or RUD" in Rocketry.
@@drshoe8744 Challenger was certainly RUD in his remarks.
Genius really, skips right to the part where the building falls on a guy instead of having to wait 50 to 100 odd years.
A true innovation in time saving, and you get to start bidding on the next contract right away.
*chef's kiss*
/s
In which Florida is giving the 3rd world a run for its money.😄
no wonder that one firm dropped out of the project. they knew something wasn't right. I'm also starting to wonder about the credibility of his education in the UK.
I'm also wondering about his supposed faith, considering greed drove his actions
It said he was studying for a HND, that’s a higher national diploma, which is equivalent(ish) to the first year of a degree. Even if the subject was engineering he was no where near qualified to supervise construction.
I agree it’s no wonder the other firm dropped out
Well Boris Johnson was educated at Eton so that should tell you enough😂
@@ChristmasCrustacean1doesn’t greed (for money, power, or popularity) count for a lot of people’s ‘faith’.
Yeah, if someone thinks they have ‘god’ on their side, I do NOT trust them.
@@justsayen2024 No, no, no. Boris Johnson *went to* Eton. I don't think he was educated anywhere.
11:37 Replacing column can be done, with extensive planning by engineers on where to brace the building to take the load before doing it.
Check out the Davenport Hotel collapsed, the collapsed happened after a repair on the load bearing wall, investigation found it was not done properly, the load path was not redirected to where it should be and it blown out.
So he built 50 projects in London and Manchester before going to Lagos and continuing ....... That means an average of 6 months per project and does not include "several estates" built abroad! Does anyone else doubt this timeline?
I think all of us do. Built 50 projects. You mean laboured on a few building sites more like.
He was a Nigerian who found God what do you expect, truth ?. I expect the Church funded his hobby like many do.
Anyone checked those buildings in london and Manchester 👀
A Nigerian pulling a scam? I'm shocked to learn this could be true... Next thing you'll be telling me the Nigerian princess I've been talking to is actually a man trying to steal money off me, and she doesn't really want to marry me and give me US$30m...
‘Built 50 projects’ could mean he built a flat-pack shed and laid some slabs in a garden.
You had me at Nigerian High Rise
If you transferred some money via Western Union they could have gotten that prince out of the basement in time
i first read it highschool collapse, fortunately its not
I kept expecting some aluminum cladding (aka fuel) to appear.
He had me at "Like all good disasters..."
ewww😄
The photograph at 8:53 is very revealing. As someone who has worked in the building trade and who has some training in concrete structural engineering, what stands out to me is the appearance of the broken concrete in the image.
If you've ever demolished structural concrete you would know that good concrete breaks with mostly jagged edges. The rounded and powdery look of the broken concrete in lower middle of the image tells me there's not enough cement in the mix.
Another interesting detail is the exposed floor rebar on the bottom left of the image. It looks like the impact of the collapse broke the concrete away from the rebar without tearing the rebar itself. This should NEVER happen and is another indication of how weak the mix is, likely due to insufficient cement.
Yep. The thing broke like a good sandcastle column would.
Been a while old friend, but glad to see you still keepin' on keepin' on.
Apparently he was a legend in his own lifetime. It weighed heavily on him in the end.
He got his comedownance.
@@paulreilly3904 he seemed crushed by the whole building having structural failure. Yep..
Engineering 101 Do not knock out supporting columns unless you have something else supporting the floor above you
"Apart from giving Florida a run for its money in self-deconstructing buildings....."
Oof. Painfully accurate, though it seems. Carry on.
When I saw the thumbnail I was so certain today was going to be a Florida episode
@technick6418 GOOD POINT thank you sir
Florida has them beat in the Self-Irradiating-Roads market though
Also in the radioactive waste poured onto public highways market, which is concerning larger than zero dollars per Earth
Building engineering by Florida Man (copyright, trademark)
"let's add floors, until " test columns " brokes, then make new better one's on no more floor's...
" whooooop, I go back to my shoe business..., byyeee! "
Apparently his God was NOT with him on this one. :(
@@markh.6687 realistically... He built several buildings before this... some of them still standing AFAIK
@@marhawkman303 He apparently got greedy on that last one. :(
But the engineering firms and builders should have all been in criminal court for not preventing the extra floors from being added. Even without City approval, the builders should have been like "NOPE! You can't just add floors to the building like this! We're done until the engineers approve this work!" But apparently that never happened either.
Toronto is getting like London too. Overpriced badly built towers with thin interior walls and small units everywhere.
Glad I left it years ago. None of the people I know from uni are doing good, except those who had generous parents who helped them get houses - real houses - in the 905 suburbs.
Jeez, I was pretty young when i figured out that if support beams are removed the blocks go boom. Please send baby building blocks and tinker toy to nigeria stat.
Also loads of Jenga!
Its basic Jenga!
Was there even time to say 'Jenga' before it, uh, self-deconstructed?
Send condoms
@@Teverell "Self-Deconstructed" makes me laugh. It reminds me of of the term they used for Centralia PA, Subsidence. Which is geek for "land that is suddenly not here anymore."
Oh those pesky regulations, always getting in the way of progess and visionaries!
Like the titan submersibles way. Who cares of safety regulations when going into crushing depths!
It's wild that they blame the government for poor oversight. Why not blame the company that built it in the first place?
Notice your precious regulations didn't stop him.
By the laws on the books what he did was illegal.
Better enforcement would have helped.
More rules and regs he could ignore and buy his way out of would not have made a difference.
My mouth was wide open in complete shock when he talked about how the columns on the first floor were being destroyed to be replaced
Maybe "Faith" should be added to the bingo card. It seems likely Femi Osibona's hubris was his religious belief that he was supernaturally destined to be successful and exempt from the physics of mere Earthly engineering.
I used to bemoan the fact that Africa chased it's best and brightest abroad but I guess it's just as bad when they come back home.
Back in the late 1950's I grew up in Lagos and got to know the Ikoyi area well where the boss of the company dad worked for lived in luxury, where as we lived in a much well heeled area amongst nigerians who were my friends. Even then buildings were falling down or close to collaps and were haphazardly repaired or strengthend to prevent total loss. Nothing has changed. since then, it only got worse.
It's coincidental that I just found out about it through a Nigerian content creation a couple days ago.
Crazy how immense the collapsed was, yet I knew so little about it (in contrast to the Surfside Condo collapse just months earlier). The only silver lining is that it collapsed during the construction phase, and not when it's already completed and fully occupied.
Why would someone in his right mind spend $ 1.5 mi to live in Nigeria?!
If you make money there, potentially lots of money. Nigeria produces quite a bit of oil and is a financial hub for the region.
Has that Prince of Nigeria ever sorted out his financial difficulties? Apparently, he stood to inherit a vast inheritance but first needed to pay some fees. He needed just enough to cover those fees, and then he would happily reimburse anyone who "loaned" him money to pay his troublesome fees. 😢 I hope he's doing alright 👍 😂
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His sister is going to marry me, and then they can move all their riches out into my bank account. Just need to find another $10k to send her so she can buy a plane ticket to get here.
Because $1.5 in London only gets a person to the very bottom of the upper class.
But that same money makes someone insanely rich in Nigeria.
If I had that kind of money, I would also probably stay in my home country (Hungary). There's also the question of social capital. We've all seen rich foreigners in London, LA, NY, Paris, but no matter how much money they have, they'll always look like wealthy weirdos because they're outsiders and don't understand how to flex their money in a socially beneficial way.
Because it's Nigeria! Home of desperate Princes and hungry Princesses who need money urgently!
Happy weekend John and mates!
I always look forward to Saturday morning when we get to see a new Plainly Difficult video. Nice work.
The situation in Lagos, sounds very much like the building industry in VIC, NSW and Canberra in Australia
My Lego towers collapse all the time
You must be using cheap concrete then. 😆😂🤣😁🤔
Ol' Femi is still in Nigeria with his flat mates :]
Very flat mates.
Waiting somewhat anxiously for a review that reaches the exalted "10" on your Disaster Scale. Presumably you'll be covering the event from the afterlife 😀
Chernobyl.
I'm so angry at a local housing project. It was the only higher-density-than-house buildings in the area except for a few 'projects' and one old-people high-rise. It was supposed to result in 2-3 bedroom apartments at good rates, but partway through the builders decided to lie to the 'city' and convert it to higher-priced apartments (they tried to blame it on using vague terms in the grants etc, but they deliberately lied about what they wanted to charge). The concrete of the building is literally done, and they were working on wiring before just... abandoning it, without even cleaning up. It was the only higher-density building near the center of the "city", and the greasy sleazeballs just couldn't help themselves. Something like 120 affordable housings, just gone. I hate people..
You and I agree with the "ugly highrise" skyline. I like natural shade
Thanks!
Thank you!
If a company removed themselves from a project... Makes you wonder what they knew....
I knew that Lagos is a corrupt place but I never dreamed it went as far as dangerous and over ambithios construction methods or if anyone could even be that plain stupid. First there was six floors then twelve finishing with twenty one. No wonder it fell down. Removing lower level surpport coloums didn't help. This one was a shocker. Thanks for posting John....
It feels like people wake up and suddenly become whatever they want , you don't need qualifications, just become a construction manager, get a few cowboys to knock up some concrete posts and you have started your career in building a high rise block of flats.
I don't think i would ever go in a building above one floor if I was in Nigeria now
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How can anybody who has ever played with any sort of building material (Lincoln logs, Jenga, sand, mud, sticks) think, "Oh, let me pull out the bottom layer and everything on top will just stay where it is with no visible support"?
How do these people get jobs in construction?
Planned for 6 floors…. Extended to 21!… sounds like when he pre sold units… he immediately went and bought more building materials
Our company started the building of a new sky-scraper. The foundation is made out of legos, as it's much faster and easier for the workers to build (even my 4 year old can build towers, houses and bridges, so i expect the workers to be able to do it too).
Will provide more updates in time.
The construction people of *LAGOS* thought they were playing with *LEGOS.* 😂
As a system analyst myself I feel the need to say "self deconstructing" is a term I've never heard in my life. And it's perfect.
Not first but here & awake early in TX on a cool Saturday morning for my Plainly Difficult fix! 🤗
Been enjoying your videos for some time now, and just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for making them!
"People flooded the scene, pawing through rubble, and rescuing survivors" : Shows picture of people texting on their phones whilst blocking an ambulance.
When an engineering consultant jumps ship and speaks about the concrete quality indirectly. You know that they’re detaching themselves from eventual failure.
You know it's going to be spicy, when the structural engineering firm drops out.
Hard Rock Hotel here in New Orleans a few years ago is the exact same story.
Regards housing in the UK. Social housing for people who cannot afford eye bleeding costs? But that's for the peasants! I wish I was joking. Remember the main reason Grenfell was 'renovated' was so the rich people who lives across from it didn't want to look at an old council housing building. Notice the same style of tower block that is *not* visible to the rich people was not renovated.
"Self-deconstructing buildings". Love it 😹😹😹
Some kind of explosion in Louisville KY just killed two, injured 11, and wrecked a bunch of homes. You will never lack for material. :/
Nobody could have guessed that the cracked column was important.
Lagos isn’t Nigeria’s capital. It is the largest city and financial centre but Abuja is the capital. It was developed to move the government away from Lagos and bring it closer to the rest of the country: a bit like Brazil did with Brasilia.
2:20 That's the same look that I had on my face, John, when I found out you hired that famous Safety Director for this project.
I thought for sure this was gonna be about the 2014 "Synagogue Church collapse", also is Lagos. Also about a building that should never have been built
A building fit for a prince, i guess?
Ah, Nigeria, it's a silly place.
Great video, buuuut…Lagos stopped being the capital of Nigeria in 1991. The current capital is Abuja.
London has also stopped being the capital of The UK. It is now Norwich.
Given that they apparently planned to replace the pillars, I'd say "Temporary Fix" should be checked off on the bingo card too. 😕
(My mind is still blown on the "knock out pillars and replace them later" thing. Just... wow. I thought I was clueless about architectural engineering. Wow.)
Hi John, there was a good feature on “The Detonators” documentary series a few years ago about the (careful) demolition of a fire-damaged bank high-rise in Lagos without damaging a nearby historic church.
You should look at the failed Ocean Tower high-rise project in South Padre Island, Texas…. built on sand, started leaning, had to be demolished…..
Fascinating video, these are always interesting documentaries!
Suggestion in the light of last month's Tropicana Field roof disaster due to Hurricane Milton: The Metrodome Roof Collaspe(s), Superdome vs Hurricane Katrina and the 1985 Silverdome Roof Collapse
1. Have a housing crisis
2. "Ugly towers littering my town"
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when he says "god is on my side" - that is your first sign there is a problem.
I gotta respect the guy for one thing: he went down with the ship. He very likely knew how sketchy the project was and stayed on site at the offending tower. He easily could have ran away and managed it from an office, but he didnt.
I guess God wasn't on his side after all.
That building looks unnervingly similar to the Surfside building
Has anyone checked his buildings in the UK?
3:21 surprise jazz hands
😂 Hahaha!
For one confusing moment I thought this disaster happened in Croydon! 😮
At 5:00 it is stated that the three buildings were to be only 15 stories, but the prospectus shown on screen says 20 stories.
8:13 I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to try to rescue someone from this concrete lasagna
Imagine the day the bingo card is completely covered
Love the way you put the black and white stripey thing in the corner before adds and end of program like ITV did in British TV.
While the show is called Plainly Difficult, this one was far from difficult, predictable even.
It was Super easy, barely an inconvenience
@@gp2917 Ah a fan of Pitch Meeting. Well played sir, well played.
What I don’t understand is his apparent history of building other projects especially in the UK. You would assume from that background ( if it was indeed real) he would have a basic understanding of what conditions to avoid…. But maybe he just figured the state inspectors are just out for personal profit and didn’t serve any other purpose. Or maybe he just learned that many persons are very gullible to a fast talking con man.
Warning was definitely the repairing of first floor pillars!
Sudden unexpected disassembly.
Jeepers. I’m only *related* to engineers, and I would have said taking out supporting columns is a really bad idea.
Tower was all it was cracked up to be (very grim). Cheers!
It's funny that you start off with a shot of the Croydon Tram, because another person I follow, fellow London resident Jago Hazzard, released a video today on the history of Morden Road station and how it dates back to a horse-drawn waggonway built in 1807 or thereabouts.
Reinforced concrete columns and beams are not the cheap reliable alternative to structural steel we once thought it was .it is fraught with problems created by rebar degradation and its 5 times the load of conventional steel structure
"Like all good disasters we start here in sunny Croydon" 😂
Brilliant opening line.
Nothing can go wrong. God is on his side
Guess he wasn't religious during that project? Maybe something else...
An unscheduled rapid disassembly… by the way, I hear your rant about those buildings around the East Croydon station, but at least I think they look good on the outside.
There is an obvious inherent issue when you have never invented the wheel.
9:58 it's impossible to be certain in a video, but that broken concrete looks like concrete washed out of a mixer not actually poured in a structure. Concrete with poor/low content cement.