Most Expensive Construction Mistakes in the World
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What's the most expensive construction mistake that has happened in your country? 👇🤓
I've Visit PNB 118 It's almost completed build construction Which is The Spire of the tower is the only one that didn't complete, I hope I Visit PNB 118 again soon😄!
@@axrayAviation bro I think Malaysia is trying to just get famous there trying to make a fat spire just to become the 2nd/3rd tallest building in the world
Lol Stuttgart 21 and Berlin airport in my country 😂
Bro please make a video about Bangobondhu Tri Tower, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
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"I built that thing in january, I had no idea it could get hot in august" -Billion Dollar Architect
What an idiot 😂
He had planed for horizontal moving windows but later someone changed it thus causing the blunder
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt - for eleven months of the year the weather in London is shite.
@@vonteflon true words. They can do the egg-trick like once a year on The Yearly Day The Sun Shines
I work in construction too, architects could present a roast dinner as plans for a building, it's the construction workers that make it happen, and it's the construction worker's that fix all the F@#k ups
Imagine opening an airport after a 10 year delay in 2020 just in time for coronavirus.
😂
Dit is Berlin :D
and on top of it, the airport is too small
If your only qualification is to be a politician of the ruling party in Berlin (SPD) and you have never worked outside the political circus that qualified you to control the building of an airport.
+ 67km of wrong ducts. hahahhh daaamn dude
You forgot the best part about the lizards in Stuttgart:
They charged up to 100k€ per lizard, bought a very nice piece of land, build them a super fancy area, withg stones, plants and everything they needed but the lizards liked the houses of people more resulting on barely any lizards in the super expensve park they build for them.
Don’t forget about the StutFART 💩 🚽
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the lizards didn't exist in the first place, they made them up to get money for their own pockets
This is hilarious. I love it.
@@Mgoblagulkablong Is this an allegory for covid? Oops don't tell anyone.
"Hey, this building could fall over in a strong wind killing people & causing billions in damages"
New York Elected Officials: "We better not tell anyone about this"
The brown envelope filled with cash is a way of life in New York. Instead of using the word Mafia you use politician.
to be honest, look what has started in UK when few pumps ran out of petrol - whole country panicked and emptied the rest of gas stations. Imagine what would happen when saying people in New York "hey, we need to fix this building to not fall down due to wind, but no worry, we have it covered".
Especial when you count in US mentality
They came in at night, ripped open the walls and welded in more steel. Then redid the walls and by morning people had no idea that anything happened over night. Did this for weeks and nobody knew at the time.
@@siriusczech "The floor is made out of floor" not sure what the point is from the original comment was, that the government is hiding everything from us? obviously officials are going to disclose details from the stupid panic ridden masses, and as you said this is especially applicable to americans
there's other buildings in NY that have this problem, so they literally just remove everything from floors and windows leave them completely open so air can pass through the building.
My favorite part about the Brandenburg airport fiasco is that they installed thousands of TVs for departure/arrival info fairly early on in the process and turned them on, but no one ever bothered to turn them off. After ~6 years of being on continuously (while the airport was still closed and under construction) all of the TVs died and had to be replaced.
Corruption!
They even forgot to build switches for the lights on the runway. They couldn't find it and turn of the beams. You can't make up that shit.
Also many of the PC's had to be replaced since they were already outdated when it opened
apparently nobody could find the off switch.....
@@trolojolo6178 e
As a german i know which mistake is on the first place without watching the video.
Indeed. Berlin's airports are shocking.
As a Dutchmen I did too. ;)
let's not forget about the elbphilharmony. where they forgot to isolate the concert chamber from the sourounding structure and you could hear the ships honking when driving into the harbor. aaaand everthing needed to be deconstructed rebuild etc....
@@krisg822 lack of communication as far as i know. one comany not talking to the other, iguess. but as far as i know it has more than one purpose as it is a luxury hotel aswell. which is why the shape of the structure is unfortunate, and the japanese dude who makes the acoustics said, there will be mud in the lower mids of the reverb. still will be good sound, but for that money and ambition, i'd try to play the same league as lets say sydney, but yeah didn't happen. but who knows maybe it will pay of when surrounding real estates will skyrocket in value. still debatable if that may happen.
Germany is a shit show - should have let the Soviets have it.
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Man, good job getting those city names of Stuttgart and Ulm pronounced correctly. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!👍
For the first one, the architect actually built another building with the exact same problem, and later he was just like "we thought it would be cloudy so it wouldn't be a problem".
Maybe the architect should be sent to Murmansk or Kirkenes to set up a building that heats a tropical garden at the receiving end of the reflections.
They like politicians are not held accountable for anything they do.
Some other Frank Gehry (corrected from Guggenheim) buildings have the same issues.
I remember the the hotel he built in Las Vegas had the pool side sun bathers complaining they felt like they were being "cooked" by the building.
The solution was to close the pool area during the hours the sun was at it's most intense angle.
@@teebosaurusyou I think you mean Gehry?
"When I visited London it was cold and rainy, dunno why it got so hot when I left" That logic from an architect xD LMFAO
Thats the difference between an architect an an ingenieur.
@@trempton4106 The same happen in Montreal, Canada. They hired a french architect to build the main stadium for the olympic and the guy didn't take into consideration there's a lot of snow fall in winter.
ruclips.net/video/kVsDFy3Do5k/видео.html
And he designed the ugliest building for miles, sounds he should be out of work.
@@marcelleroux9172 Architecture is an art. Ugliness is subjective to the individual.
What blows me away with government projects is that the companies involved can just increase the cost, and take years longer than agreed, all without any real consequences. So basically the development firm is paid, the contractors are paid, the politicians are paid but taxpayers are screwed and are on the hook for not only the original costs, but all the extra costs and expenses that can result from years, or even a decade more worth of labor for countless numbers of workers.
For example, with the Brandenburg airport, contractors installed the wrong pipes, so were then paid to remove those pipes and put in the correct ones. So basically they were paid for screwing up, then we’re paid again to fix their screwup.
The only repercussion for a delay in a German public construction project is more money. Construction companies are incentivized to dramatically underbid on public tenders and then simply delay projects to make them financial.
The city group center is my favourite the reason being the main architect actually listened to the princeton student. He could have just fobbed her off as a know it all but he didnt he checked her work and realised she was right. It couldn't have been easy for her to tell a respected architect that his building would fall down it lucked his ego wasnt running the company that day.
The story that got told here is not exactly accurate. If you google about it, a even more sinister version comes to light.
@@binfenj ？????
I'm so proud of my home country (Germany), we're in first and fourth place!
So you are proud of germany making building mistakes?
Edit: yes after all hates commments i get the joke but when a comment is not popular you cant really guess if its ironical or not but of course its me being a retarded and degenerate and of course i never got a sarcastical joke and never i will in my entire life
@@ericvanz9015 that was the joke...
😂😂😂
@@ericvanz9015 you can’t take a joke uh? 😂
Gott sei dank sind wir beim impfen besser ;)))
As a German, I am very proud of our nation that we have managed so quickly to go from being an inventor nation to a dilettante nation for major projects. Rightly, two of the top three are in Germany, we have clearly won this competition.
German lizards cost as much as german cars these days.
danke, dass ich es nicht mehr schreiben muss...omg...und dabei hat er die Elbphilharmonie noch gar nicht aufgezählt -.-
at least we won, that's what counts
well I hold Germany in such high regards that the corruption thing was a little surprising.
@@rundstedtbismarck3657 We don't have corruption in Germany either; after all, we invented the light bulb. It is only possible that the German fractional calculation deviates from the general, compliant result.
As someone who from an early age was instilled with admiration for German technology, professionalism and efficiency, I must say that the number of spectacular organizational failures in Germany over the past couple of decades is baffling. (The delays and cost increases in building the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is another example.) Every country has its construction scandals, but Germany simply doesn't seem to live up to its reputation anymore - in fact, not even the trains seem to be running on time these days ;-). I'm not saying it makes Germany any less pleasant; it's still a favourite country, with great cities and even friendlier and more easygoing people than I remember from my first visits 45 years ago. Cheers from Norway :-)
Wait, German trains were on time at some point? :D Our current train system is sadly a pretty bad joke. You realisticly use it only if your tickets are subsidized by the gouvernment or payed for by your company (or you have too much money). For most normal people a car is not only significantly cheaper (mine costs me on average a quarter of a comparable train journey) but often also faster... Which sucks hard, since I'm a huge fan of mass transit :(
You have to differentiate here: it is mostly PUBLIC projects that fail in that way. This is due to mainly two reasons:
One) these projects go out to the lowest bidder, which creates an incentive to appear cheap just to get in as well as favoring companies that are just bad at cost estimations. But with big, long term projects it also means that at the point where cost explosion becomes undeniable, the project will have gotten along so far that changing contractors would likely be even more expensive than just seeing it through with the one that was chosen. We basically created a situation where we ask to be extorted.
Two) as became especially apparent in the BER affair: politicians tend to intervene in projects at stages where re-planning costs tons of time and money, for no better reason than to leave their mark on a project mostly planned by previous governments, and with no penalties for causing these disturbances. This is another thing that is typical in Germany: there is not a lot of personal accountability in politics, which is never a good thing.
@@IanDresarie You calculate the cost of a car wrongly. When you factor in aquisition and maintenance and not just fuel costs, public transportation in germany is, by a large margin, the cheapest way to get around. That is especially true if travelling alone, and if you use it enough to take part in discount programs like the BahnCard (which pays for itself with one longer trip) or the monthly and annual tickets offered by regional transport associations.
And the trains are generally punctual. One big problem with punctuality though is that a lot of people who use trains infrequently travel on the weekends and in school holiday times, where the system is overcrowded and slowed down by people with a lack of experience in using it. Of course, that is partly to blame on Deutsche Bahn as well, because they know it happens and do not plan for it. So, while the small percentage of daily commuters finds the train system reliable enough to actually rely on it on a daily basis, the public opinion of it is formed by people who generally only use it at the worst imaginable times, like the christmas and easter holidays.
Another problem with "Stuttgart 21" is the sloping platform (15,14 ‰), which ensures that trains, prams and wheelchairs move by themselves. A big problem with a track bed attached. In addition, it was proven that the project was pushed through by lobbying against the will of broad sections of the population. Protests were crushed with massive violence. There were several serious injuries (e.g. eye loss from water cannons).
The "Berlin-Brandenburg Airport" is the most expensive laughing stock in the nation and I'm a Berliner.
I have to correct here: there was a referendum in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg about the project, in which 68 % voted in favor of the project, myself among them.
And as someone who follows the news I was aware that a project like that would cost at least twice the estimated price. There seems to be an inherent flaw in the way we call for bids for projects like that which basically ensures that nothing is ever built at the estimated costs.
@@Volkbrecht Baden-Württemberg is big. I would be much more interested in the level of approval from those who were directly affected by the project, namely the people of Stuttgart. Also, I was writing from broad sections of the population rather than a majority. Would this majority, beyond the fine speech, after disclosure of the facts (crooked platform, imminent flooding, inadequate safety concept, ...), still agree? So your comment is not a correction but only an addition.
they had it coming however: For years there were articles about the project, before it started, in many magazines and newspapers. I recall an extensive one in "Wirtschaftswoche" back in 2004/2005 at least.
Everyone knew what was coming.
The protests were just miscreants being unhappy with the overall situation and looking for a way to vent.
They should have been forced to pay pack every single cent their "protesting" caused in damages.
The problem were not the serious injuries, the problem was that there were some criminals that got away without injuries.
@@kurtmueller2089 Oh you are one of those. The main thing is that the economy is booming and no mercy for the people. If you sing this song, classify your previous posts accordingly. understood
@@VJKaiC no, this is not it. The problem is people becoming criminals and getting away with it.
Where were the mass demonstrations when the proposal was published? When the magazines reported on it?
Instead they waited until construction had already long started to break the law.
As a german, I have to say, this airport meanwhile became a cultural element now in discussions or comedy. I think even in 500 years, the germans will still talk about the history of this airport
Sadly yeah, leider ja amk
Anytime politicians have a say you can count on something either having problems or going over cost. Takes place here in the US all the time, you are not alone.
@@edg8535 This was nothing politicians had a say in. It was completely an administration's job to pick the executive companies (within strict rules - one being that they always have to go for the (at least seemingly) cheapest offer). The politicians only decided that an airport will be built. Everything after that was not their responsibility anymore
@@jefboy28 Germany mostly gained productivity over the decades by employing migrants. The corrupt awarding of contracts to private German businesses run solely by indigenous Germans indulging in nepotism is why the project is sub standard and over budget. But hey some of your fellow Germans it’s been a wonderfully profitable project 💰💯🤣
Brandenburg Airport just became my new reference term when dealing with Austrian and German engineers on cost overruns.
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ah yes, a man of culture
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Dude wanted to watch the street burn lol
Thank you so much for taking your time to explain everything into details, I really got enlightened
Kinda crazy that no engineer took that into account on the first one. I'm a EE working for a utility on projects that are 200M and up. During the design process we go through a lot of discussion, and feel like something like that would be at least brought up. Maybe someone did bring it up and then the big boss just said "nah it should be fine"
Yes the big boss! A long time ago, a young engineer at Ford Motor company discovered a design defect in Ford Pinto which would make the car explode on rear-end collisions. He was ignored but ultimately the file was discovered, and Ford paid dearly.
“As they didn’t want to cause a mass panic, very few people...knew about the problem”
Remember this. When something bad is coming, they won’t tell you.
Exactly. that's what I'm thinking
From what i've read there was no immediate danger to the public. The building could only collapse in the event of a powerful hurricane. If a hurricane were to hit during the repairs, they would have simply evacuated the nearby buildings a day or so before the hurricane arrived. Since there were no hurricane coming, there was no reason to cause unecessary worry.
@@qwertyu5363 HURRICANE ELA WAS IN ROUTE 50/50 chance AND THEY STILL TOLD NO ONE
I’m pretty sure this also happened to the severity of the pandemic in the U.S. for that same exact reason.
This is why learning history is important
This makes me feel so much better about my $1000 screw up when renovating my kitchen.
I can relate to this 🤣
Real talk.
Well you should be ashamed of yourself, everyone knows thats not where pipes go.. completely unnatural!
@@justinmartin4662 huh
That happens all the time to the best of us. Great thing about America is you’re only punished for it yourself financially, not punishing others.
It is such a pleasure to hear how the narrator made a real effort to correctly pronounce foreign words (in Korean, German, French...)
more or less ... it's ok LOL
9:30 I'm a mechanical insulator in Canada, and I have a problem with being given time to insulate pipes on most jobs I have. Chilled/cold pipes sweat, then the moisture causes mold to grow, and eventually the mold is getting everyone sick..on top of the damage and energy loss.
constructing a giant concave mirror aimed at pavement. "what? how should know that's a bad idea? I'm just an architect!"
Just what year in grade school does the teacher take the kids outside and fries an ant with a magnifying glass?
😂😂😂😎
@@kenhurley4441 they don't, we { the free world } use common sense .... u should really google it
@@dustbunny2886 You've never tried that with a magnifyin glass?
@@kenhurley4441 no i was raised to respect all life and only kill something i intend to eat
I think the most expensive mistake on the first one is why a sun shade costs $14 million.
$200k to build and install it. $13.8m in graft and backhanders.
Ray-Ban must have designed it...
Ridiculous
Guess it depends what it is made of and whether it is permanent. If it is permanent, it probably has to be made of something along the lines of carbon mesh to withstand the weather, maintain shape, and also be transparent.
The video is a bit wrong on this, the $14m was for the installation of the louvres to the concave face of the building (that were originally planned but dropped in the planning phase). The temporary sunshade they show here was not the final fix.
Stutgart 21 is one of the biggest construction project failures in Germany (next to Berlin airport).
One additional fun fact: The station is not level by 15 degrees so for example baby carriages or wheel chairs could roll and fall onto the tracks. However, train stations are not allowed to have that. So they legally labeled Stuttgart 21 as a simple "stop" in order to avoid trouble.
Also some more:
- the new tunnels will be so narrow and with emergency exits only every 500 metres so they are basically death traps in emergencies
- because of the subterrain location Stuttgart 21 will always be endangered by flooding and in Stuttgart ( you guessed it) it rains A LOT!
- the nature protection area where the construction site is just conveniently happened to "move away" to AROUND the construction site when the project started
And - best of all - Stuttgart 21 will be significantly less efficient than the old train station because it has only 8 tracks compared to 16 of the old one. So it's all for nothing!
You can't make this stuff up!
I took part once in a huge construction project which ground to a halt when the country's nature conservation agency claimed we were blocking the yearly migration path of a type of endangered deer. it took months (and money) to prove they were working with outdated data and the migration path was by now actually miles away from the project.
Another fun story about the Berlin Airport:
300.000 m^2 of the airport were lit day and night for several years because nobody knew where light controls were to shut them off :)
Simply, there werent any, it was not planned to ever shut off these Lights
@@riasgremori361 yeah, that's pretty shitty planning if you ask me...
Source, please?
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@@riasgremori361 that tops the ventilation without insulation. Who designed that crap.
"A special type of soil, that swells when coming into contact with water" it's literally clay, why are they trying to sound cryptic
No it is Anhydrite
@@MrUnrealreal No its Alien Dirt
@@CazzyVR Wrong Universe dude.
That's why wee need a speedlimit in Space.
@@MrUnrealreal it could be bentonite as well.. although unlikely.
It bugs me as well that they tried to make it sound complex and cryptic.
It's not even soil, no matter the mineral that's creating the problem.
@@drogothefirst Soil made me wonder too
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A tower that could topple over! Now that’s some mistake. The fact that a student raised the alarm! that speaks volumes.
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Incomprehensible that this could happen. And a student had to point out the deficiency. I’ve heard this story, but still unbelievable.
She was no ordinary student. She was a young genuis. It was Princeton Uni after all. Isn't it an Ivy league school in the US?
@@Mister_Ri_MFBMT yes it is.
@@charlesvanderhoog7056 But they DID'T.
Hurricane Ella must hold the record for the slowest moving hurricane ever.
Yep, so slow that it never reached the building.
Blame Trump
i know this is a joke, but the answer is kinda funny as well
“The record for the slowest moving hurricane goes to 2019's Hurricane Dorian, which literally remained stationary over the Grand Bahama island for 14 hours”
them poor people must’ve been terrified
EDIT: after rereading my comment and remember the video said “1978” i’ve come to realize that my argument is a little null by the fact that Dorian hadn’t even been thought of yet. still funny tho
@@BSnicks It is still on it's way...patience.
hahahah
Fascinating. Keep up the good work.
Really amazing 👍❤️It takes alot of effort to make these kinds of video more effort than making these megaprojects ❤️❤️👍👍🥺👍❤️❤️
I learned about #3 in my engineering class. It was worse than you thought.
Not only were diagonal winds not calculated, but the actual building itself was poorly built. Welds were not proper, entire parts were just thrown out or not used because "I don't know what these are for" or "We don't need these" by the ones in charge. Some were installed incorrectly/upsidedown. As well as the coverup from the city only making the impression of the building worse.
Since they tried to cover it up by doing repairs at night it was difficult to see what they were doing. (no lights were allowed on, otherwise it would draw the attention of peoples eyes that there were people in it super late)
So you had hundreds of people welding in pitch darkness. Do you know how bright a welding arc is? The irony is that all people saw were hundreds of flashing lights on/in the building for nights and nights which just made them panic lol. It also made people realize something was wrong since no news outlets were talking about it.
And LeMessurier himself tried everything in his power to cover it up and wiggle his way out of his mistake.
So at least someone listened and something was done. I’m not sure that would be done everywhere in the world.
"So this building could have collapsed at about any time."
LeMessurier was never the cause of any of the mistakes that happened with the Citicorp Center building. His original design would have worked fine and the issue Diane Hartley brought up with corner winds were accounted for, but her contact made him recheck the building plans and see that one of the contractors had exchanged his specified bolts out for cheaper, weaker ones. He effectively covered for the company and contractors, when he had provided a totally sound design.
The way the story I heard, the student was actually wrong and the diagonal winds where not a problem. But the architect looked over the plans anyway just to make sure and noticed the plans have been changed from welds to rivets without consulting him.
@@schwarzerritter5724 The welds to rivets were just one of the problems. There were a lot.
I doubt my senior class on ethics of engineering would tell us the diagonal winds were the problem when they really were not. Otherwise I have to question the ethics of the class itself lol
The lizards would be like: "Holy hell, give us the $10,000 and we will move out ourselves."
Especially because the ones in the video are all living way more south than Germany...
If this hadn't been a publicly funded build, there's no way it would have cost anywhere near $10k per lizard. The people catching the lizards fucked the taxpayers over, as is the case on so many of these public works projects.
Even 1k wud do if I was zegerman 😂
@@waytosacramento3843 The ones in the video may have been visiting their northern cousins for vacation.... :-0
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No she's not.
Did I win?
Nice video, thanks :)
Raphael "I keep forgetting that Sun exists" Vignoli =D
Occupation: Architect
Strong suites: likes to avoid typical boxy design
Weaknesses: keeps forgetting that Sun exists
I love it.
Lol so funny 😂 😂😂
"They were removed sometime in the planning process." Basically the owner didnt want to spend the money on the windows, so they were VE'd (value engineered) out of the design.
if you got money to build that with London prices, then you have the money for windows. Ppl like that are cheap on the worst kind of stuff.
Its shocking that they didnt get engineers tho
We have a similar problem in Dallas TX (USA) with Museum Tower. It has destroyed at least one piece of art in the neighboring Nasher Sculpture Center (for which the tower is named) and has made the carefully-designed roof (which was designed to allow natural light into the museum) to be totally useless.
Says the acronym then proceeds to type out what it stands for.
Brilliant.
@@PoisondBacon its required in reports in university so maybe they just did it out of habit
ty for this video
SUPER Interesting
the sunshade made the walkie talkie building look more like a walkie talkie. lol
Made the walkie-talkie look like an I-phone. That's one hell of an upgrade.
@@abseiduk so it will be obsolete in two years?
Only been there once.. In the sky garden.. Not bad
@@carlfx1 I have a HMD Nokia 6.1 android 10, 2 years No Problem,
Microsoft over stepped the Mark.
true to character! LOL!!!
What this video shows me, more than anything, is that architects live and work in a separate dimension to the rest of us. "Look I made a beautiful model!" Shouts the architect triumphantly. "Have you considered physics?" asks the engineer. "LOL, that's your problem now YOLO!" the architect yells on his way out the room never to be seen again.
I wrote the specifications for a TV distribution and computer network at a small university branch. I ended up doing that work, and then was asked to figure out the messy design of the Fire Alarms. The 'brilliant' architect had done right by putting all the wiring in Conduit, but most of it was in the poured concrete floors instead of overhead. When he visited the site, I made damned sure to point out that walls got moved in these types of buildings, which would require a jackhammer or blasting caps to reroute the wiring for the pull boxes. I pointed out that the hallways were where it belonged, and that a single, 2" conduit run the entire length, with a junction every 20 feet would not only simplify the installation, but it would reduce the amount of wire needed, which would improve reliability. BTW, that Alarm prewire? The actual Alarm company told me that it was the first jobsite in years that was properly wired when they arrived. That was about 25 years ago, not long before I had to give up that type of work. after that, I had to spend my days at a workbench, not on ladders.
@@michaelterrell I was mounting blinders on the outside of a building from the 50's in Norway that was being renovated. The blinders were going to be controlled manually with crank-shaft trough the wall. In the wall, we found no isolation when we drilled through.(This is in Tromsø, north of the arctic circle.) What we did find, was newspaper. Lots of it. After a day or two it was confirmed to us that the building had been "isolated" with newspaper clippings, dumped into the walls from above before sealing the wall with a new floor. To be fair, that wasn't the architect's fault. It was the lazy entrepreneur who figured the company would save money by using the newspapers that the bosses got every day. Big national company, think they would have to send newspapers from all over Norway for a 6-7 floor building.
@@Chtulhu1204 That was popular for a while. A fireproofing agent twas used to teat the paper before it was shredded. It was marketed as 'Cellulose Insulation'. Once Fiberglass insulation supplies improved, it disappeared from the market. A couple walls in my workshop are filled with styrofoam shipping pellets, behind 1/2" plywood. No one wanted them, and I couldn't get anything else so I used them. They've been there for over 20 years now.
@@michaelterrell Thanks for reply! I genuinely learned something there. Mostly young guys (no one over 45) and Poles who worked on that project. We just laughed at "the backwards folks in the olden days".
@@Chtulhu1204 I'm closer to 70, and I've seen a lot of things while they were happening. Have a Blessed day!
Excellent video
I like videos like this. Useless knowledge but still very interesting!
Guy has problems with curved glass on a building. Does the same thing on another building, and is then surprised it is an issue.
Nice.
He deserves a medal of disgrace!
Architects in general..repeat same mistakes because upskilling with no knowledge of the trade your designing for is hard. I’m just an arty player from WOT and the lines pleasure me.
Probably with full pay! .. should be demoted to parking designer.
Don't have to be an engineer to figured that out. Simple bottle water reflects sun rays and could cause a fire. Mother nature is not a force to be wreckin with.
I know VERY LITTLE about AutoCAD... but I DO know that you can play with a building's orientation to minimize energy consumption for heating/cooling, to take advantage of natural lighting patterns through the changing seasons, etc., SO... how could reflectivity be missed?
"Before we continue, make sure to like this video." Why in the hell would I do that? I'm not psychic.
Yeah, always wise to watch before liking... I hate it when they do that
I thought the same thing. It's odd to ask for a like before showing what to like. It's like: "I will show you xyz, but promise, you won't laugh."
The rail system in Hawaii deserved a mention. Massive over runs both in timelines and in budgets. It’s crazy. Lots of bad energy in Hawaii regarding this controversial project
Very amazing for this video
I think you should have included the Harmon Hotel tower in Las Vegas, which had to be demolished after getting half-built when it was discovered the contractor had misread the blueprints, and produced a building that was structurally unstable.
Sure, - we just need more "diversity employees" and cut out more work scope to so called "minority businesses"
Who was the structural engineer of record, charged with overseeing the shop drawing submittals? Another "minority owned company" ?
@@arney444
Ha, ha, I sense a hint of sarcasm there, you ‘n me would get along I guess.
Too much and in the wrong direction these days, there’s no hope.
Yes, that's what happens when business contracts are given to people based on their skin color and not based on their merits or accomplishments.
@@clivehorridge Racist
@@arthurwielga970 Racist
German here. There are some things I think should have been mentioned:
1) both projects where paid for by tax money
1) there was excessive force used by the police during protests against Stuttgard 21 (of which there were many, over decades)
2) there were also massive protests against the BER airport, because of the noise it will generate. Some 10s of kilometers away, people actually wanted the airport because it would have provided jobs for a dying region, which by the way already had most of the infrastructure needed for all the people.
Germany has a long list of expensive, delayed or failed big public projects. The Elbphilharmonie is another one that comes to mind for example.
Cool to have this perspective. Locally, is the railway project expected to provide a lot of benefit when it is done, or did many people think it was a waste of time even before construction began?
Very Good and informative
Fascinating video.
You only scratched on the surface of the desaster that stuttgard 21 is.
- It is build slightly downwards wich causes wheelchairs and strollers to roll into the train tracks.
- It was build inside a a water protectionzone that was therefore just slipped into two different ones (of cause they are still connected in reality and this happens only on paper).
- In case of a massive fire that requires alot of water or in case of a flood the soil you pointed out will again souk water and expand causing the entire city on top to be lifted up.
- There is no good escape route for the rain tunnels because they are to small.
- The trains will propably not be allowed to drive fast in the tunnels, that will result into the fact that they dont safe time in comparision to the old trainstation.
- The new Trainstation has only 8 tracks while the old one had 17 so they need to shortend the halts to manage the whole train traffic.
Oben bleiben!
So, was it because of mistake or because of corruption ?
@@allykid4720 Both. There was alot of scetchy relationship contracts going on. But also incompetent planing and the wish of the city to have new trainstation that is much cooler than the old one.
@@allykid4720 A lot was from corruption. Not in the construction itself but in planning. The actual (but not official) reason is that with the new station they can sell all the area of the rails (which is large) and Stuttgart is the 3rd most expensive City in Germany for area right now. This would be a lot of profit for DB-Netz. Additionally, close friends to the planners were also those, who wanted to build on that area. Also it's flawed because German car-companies profit from bad railways (former Mercedes managers are were in charge, and those before are now with a car company). The list of secret profiteers is long, very long.
It's still not sure if there will ever be a train arriving at the station, because the boring is an absolute nightmare which can lead to costly disasters. In another city in Germany they just did bore small test(around 2 inches diameter) for geothermal potential, the town is now around 10cm higher than before and almost every building is damaged. In Stuttgart, this damage would probably will be tens of billions €
The flaws are so horrible, even the original architect said it should never be build as it threatens lives.
So there's now one actual reason two build this, which is profit for specific persons and companies who are good friends with politicians.
I was always always told about German quality engineering but now this.
Jeddah Tower doesn’t seem to be a construction mistake. The construction is halted due to political, economic reasons.
Ah, good ole political shit, it ruins everything 😀
Exactly - it doesn't belong on this list at all.
@محمد الغامدي bro please tell how you got that info
Still a failure, and the only REAL failure on this list.
@@LittleMacscorner Failure, but not a “construction” failure. It is a political failure.
Good job !!!
Interesting !!
Excellent coverage in a good amount of time. Very well done, not to mention interesting!
Much appreciated!
Hurricane Ella was approaching so engineers worked for three months to fix the design problem? That was one slow moving hurricane!!
It was back in the 70s so things moved slower back then, you know kind of like the US mail back when they delivered on horseback....JK, that sounded ridiculous to me also.
so in the 70s they could of predicted a hurricane 3 months ahead of time, in 2021 they say its a 50/50 chance that it will rain tomorrow
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Right! I laughed too! 🤣😂
Interesting video!
Love watching the construction expensive building
The tallest skyscraper here in Qingdao, China was abandoned after the owner died. Still empty, it towers over the city, partially exposed to the elements. I can’t imagine how much money was wasted on it if it is never completed.
How many floors was it? Take care
I couldn't find it, it when searching. What is it called?
Sorry. I’m not sure exactly how many floors it has but when I tried to count them, I got about 80 floors. It’s definitely the tallest building in Qingdao. It’s part of a project called Lushang and it stands on the southeast corner of Hong Kong Middle Road and Yan Er Dao Road, across from Mykal shopping mall.
@@roxythefoxsayfurismurderan3187 Is it this one?
www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/haitian-center-tower-2/15639
How are you watching youtube if you live in China, VPN?
Never thought the "German" will be in the Engineering Failure list let alone two of them.
That's what you get if you take the lowest bid for the planned construction. German politics are sadly totaly incompetent when it comes to construction.
to be fair, in other countries there is no failed fire test on an airport, they just bribe and open it.
Don't worry, their automobile manufacturers are equally full of failures. Making some of the most unreliable cars, unless that's engineering to make more money
Check out any high end German luxury car out of warranty
What? Only 2?
We have and had the ministerpresident-conference under the leading of Kurt Beck. They decided to make the tv-fee. Everybody, who has a flat or house has to pay 210 EUR for the flat/house, but not for the program. (German program is the best. It is always repeated.)
All these MPs have made sh..
Kurt Beck ruined the Nuerburgring. In Hamburg the opera, in Berlin the airport. And so on. Welcome to Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel. Unable to order enough vaccine against Corona. But sending many police onto the roads, who cash money from people without mask. Very soon 100000 shops bankrupt, towns become poorer.
Very good government.
Your video topic very much interesting,love u,💞
Oh, wow, that's so cool)))
"What do you think about these construction failures? Which one did you like the most?"
Thats an unlucky phrasing.
No one cares
Just sit down Ron
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I like all the failures 😂
California High Speed Rail didnt make the list??
Unlucky?
Germany has moved from "made in Germany" quality label to a country that drowns in incompetence, bureaucracy, corruption and offices still running Windows 95. Cracked Windows 95.
Yes. it is so sad since we have the minds but cant even get the digitalization done.. it is so frustraiting
this sums up the EU in general
Groß reden kann jeder. Anpacken und was ändern. Das meine ich im positiven Sinne. Zeig den Leuten wie es besser geht.
"Made in Germany" back to the roots!
Wikipedia: Originally introduced in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century as a protection against supposedly cheap and inferior imported goods
German people are becoming... French?
Nice video.
I've lived in Stuttgart and currently live in Berlin, so when I saw your video's title, I of course hoped you would include Stuttgart 21 & BER - and you did! And you even only scratched the surface on all of the things that have gone / are wrong with those projects! Props to your proper pronunciation, btw.
The fact that BER continues to loose money and is likely to never be profitable is embarrassing :/ 🙈
lose not loose
@@carlfx1 🤣👌
@@carlfx1 - You mean somewhat built.
tell that the people who has been responsible. they denied their failures
Berlin: Poor, but sexy.
Big props to the pronounciation of Stuttgart!
fax
All problems with Stuttgart21 had been well known before the start, hence the massive protests. But the project had become a political thing so they (trying) to built it no matter what. 🙄🤦♂️
Stuggi 😍
And LeMessurier!
@@Teng711 Not to mention that the Stuttgart terminus train station is one of the most punctual train stations in Germany. Which it surely won't be anymore when the project is finished.
As a field foreman for a plumbing and mechanical company. I was laying out holes for my core drilling crew on a hospital addition. I found the building was 14 inches and change smaller than it should be. The general contractor had new prints made, making all the rooms a bit smaller because the hallways had to be exact. They managed to pull it off without the buildings owners ever knowing they lost 14 inches x 198 ft. X 3 floors.
the way he says "Stuttgart" every time cracks me up lol cool vid
Nice video! The stoy behind the Citigroup Center is unbelievable..
Of course, the drama was enhanced somewhat by mentioning the approaching hurricane. Since the repairs took three months, they obviously weren’t conducted because that specific hurricane was approaching.
The fried egg part was epic 😂
If the head was so intense that it melted car parts, it would certainly be enough to fry an egg!
It didnt quite show the aftermath properly .
There were lines of cars that were basically lazered by the sun in a sort of death ray effect .
Irony was people didnt even park their cars in the sun !
People parked bicycles up and came back to oddity melted parts . EVERYONE denied it for years that there was an issue and then once sky had taken the piss with this news story they took it in turns to blame each other .
As a young boy, we used to fry eggs on sidewalks in Ft. Worth back in the 1950's.
@@onekittyhawk63 The uk temp pops upto around the 35 degrees C in the late summer with most of the time just under 100f for around 3 weeks but mostly around the 25c degrees for the longest time .
Its just once hit more than 40 degrees ( 104 ) so its not really possible to fry an egg .
Having said that and having been to Vegas when it was 46 i cant complain too much .
that's an extremely British thing to do lol
I have to use Stuttgart station every few weeks and it's a mess; there's a big hole in the ground that we have to go around to get to the trains, and the route changes almost every time I go there.
A renovated terminus would have worked perfectly well, but the city of Stuttgart is in a fairly narrow valley and the railway took up some extremely valuable land; turning the station meant they could sell all the land off to developers for a great deal of money. The developers will still make a profit, but the taxpayers will now have to pay for it all several times over, and it's likely that the capacity of the station will be reduced after all this is finished, not increased.
I got one for you. It seems like a small project but it's been going on since about year 2000. Downtown Tacoma's highways have been under construction for at least 20 years non-stop and still going.
"designed the Vdara hotel"
Shows picture of the Aria hotel.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Aria and Vdara are next to each other, so technically not wrong, but bad angle.
@@tomoharu8605 those were the two aria buildings. Their all connected, but the vdara wasn’t even in the picture.
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Loved the first one - frying an egg on the street was just class!!
Particularly in London where it rains a lot
As someone who is afraid of heights, I think this is one of the most terrifying videos on YT. Now I have to watch more.
Good video 📸 congratulations 💐
The fact that the citigroup building issue was let out casually is such a funny thing
It was not let out so casually, the engineer first tried to commit suicide but was saved. He took it as a sign from God to fulfill his duty and that's when he informed the concerned people about it. My college professor told our class about this.
@@tezmago6671 wow 😳
@@tezmago6671 🙄
Where are you from
@@saraswatic7996 India
The design of the damn thing at the base looks atrocious, incomplete and one good high torsional wind episode away from complete collapse. It's one of those radius of gyration calculation things gone mad.
It’s hard to believe that humans have built all this in just 100 years.
Because there were no stupid pointless wars
@@yacinealg152 I’m no history expert but I think theres been more than a few in the last 100 years...
@@yacinealg152 ähm WW2?
Both happend in the last 100 Years and all named countries were involved.
Berlin, Stuttgart and London got flatten with bombs
I'm more fascinated at the structures that have been around, for hundreds of years. Simple, beautiful designs, that created a personality, complimenting the residing culture.
@@yacinealg152 very war is stupid and pointless!! Nothing gets solved.
5:44, civil engineer student Diane Hartley made the shocking discovery, amazing.
You should include Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines
Construction Cost : $US 2.3 billion
Issues:
1. Plant revealed over 4,000 defects.
2. Was built near a major geological fault line.
3. Close to Volcanic Mount Pinatubo.
of all the things in this video the dude pronouncing LeMessurier as fluently as he did was the most impressive feat.
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Especially when he’s a major culprit. The hero of the story was engineering student Hartley, who was not even told that her analysis, which was her Princeton senior thesis project, had such a major effect on what happened and she received no credit until she overheard the story about it 20 years later and was outraged. LeMessurier even contemplated (A) denying there was a problem and (B) suicide! Before deciding it was too important to not actually fix it.
I work right next to that tower and attended Princeton, and I didn’t know this story either until I looked into the history of the building just to find out what was the justification for their closing their public atrium where I used to eat lunch. I assumed the atrium was required by the city in return for the building’s violating zoning laws, so I wondered what clauses allowed them to close the public atrium. And I never found out the forces behind that but I did find this story!
Tower of babel???
@@susiegomintong753 nah not tall enough-Tower of Babel was supposed to reach to heaven🤣
@@kineahora8736 ju meaned "Harvard"
I like how old mate is just casually cooking an egg 😂😂👌
Have they mentioned this to the companies who make those inefficient - flat - solar panels. They might get a bright new idea out of it.
@@maureendavidson4635 „bright“ new idea - Yeah, they achieved that 😂
brilliant to a whole knew level
@@maureendavidson4635 the reason it was so hot is because the wall was angled in a way that concentrated light hitting all parts of the side of the building into the same spot on the street, like a lens. There is no application to solar panels.
Completely outside the types of videos I watch, but I liked it
I live in London and I love the Walkie-Talkie building, it is an unusual building and so unique
The airport in Berlin which took years and years to open...
Lol NAIA 3 in Manila was very slow
1997- Terminal starts construction
2002-Terminal nearly complete
2003-2007 Unopened
2008-Partial opening
2014-Full opening
Today: the Atrium is still Unfinished with stopped escalators, blocked entrances, unpainted walls, exposed ceilings, and lots of dust and barricades
But is needed , other constuctions can be replaced easily or just unnecessary
@@thetheatreorgan168 I've been in that airport. There was inadequate air conditioning throughout the building. Also a severe lack of public toilets. I will NEVER fly into that airport again. Second worst only to the Moscow airport.
@@mikemassino The ovens are not in the restaurants, the restaurant iS the oven
@@chinalover2798 video sucks
I love the fact that the guy who designed the death ray in Vegas said hey let’s go London I heard it’s rainy there.
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Nathan. Hasn't that guy figured out yet that he could have a great future in Iceland, or Alaska ; put up a building, warm the whole street.
Mistakes (and failures) happen. That's the way it's always been, and the way it always will be (very grim). Cheers!
6:21 "In contrast to a demolition, the building would not collapse in on itself but instead topple over"
What do we learn from this statement, regarding the three skypscrapers, which collapsed in on themselves, on the same day, 9/11?
This what happens when you study engineering online.
You mean the Khan Academy? 😆
@@haroon420 Not funny, just stupid
I've built roofs using cable stays - which preclude some posts. When some engineers looked at my plans, they said it wouldn't hold up, and the first strong wind would knock it down. 17 years later, the roofs are intact, ...as secure as ever.
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It's because everything is done in a rush on tight budgets and nothing gets checked properly or coordinated with all the other consultants involved. A lot of times you have 3 or 4 projects on the go or projects change designers who don't have the background history of the project. Ask me how I know.
As a taxpayer the question is more like: which construction failure do you dislike the most...
The one That costs the most
With all the other issues with 3p projects, they do at least help with manage project cost and actually finish the project.
Lol do you pay taxes? Noob!
@@mr.unknown2612 Mr. Trump? That you?
@@mr.unknown2612 TAX EVADER :O
I heard about the German Airport from a friend of mine, and your video popped up in my feed.
I enjoy these kinds of stories already so I thought.... Maybe that Airport is in this video, and sure as shit, there it is.
Nice video, entertaining and informative
Sometimes I feel I’ve made some financial mistakes. Then I watch videos like this and I feel better about myself.