I was a project engineer on the Oroville Dam Reconstruction Project. The spillway was never designed for an upward pressure by underground water table. This caused the spillway to crack and the running water did the rest. I worked on an underground secant pile wall, an underground wall reinforcing the hillside so the emergency spillway water wouldn't destroy the whole hill.
I imagine they knew it was going to fail LONG before it did and never put money towards a fix even though they told were many times... instead just let it fail and then they had an "Emergency"
Hard to say we didn't know there was a problem before the emergency hit, when it was well publicized long before the emergency. The responsible parties kept spending the repair funds on pet projects, believing that the emergency scenario would never truly come, or that they at least had lots of time.
@@davidgraham2673 This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please. God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it. What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning. Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :) Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc. Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars? Please read below. These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it. I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot. If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better? Please share this message with family and friends for great reward as giving invitation to God has great reward in the next life. Copy this message and share it in the link below: pastebin.com/hdvANthz Thank you for reading and have a great day! 😊
@@gicfjd1919 please do tell me about it going on in morocco, in south africa they have stolen some 4 quadriple million rand and a whole lot of meaningfull numbers after that
The worst one in the New England area was Boston's "The big dig" to put a new tunnel under the city. Went way way over budget and took forever. Concrete slabs have fallen from the ceiling in the tunnel from faulty hardware and killed people driving through. Probably a good one for part 3.
Concrete is useless as a building material.it is not water resistant.i used to live in an apartment block in the u k,which was made from a concrete grid.the flat roof let rainwater into the flats directly underneath it .there was no escape for rain whatsoever onto the ground below.even then,the noise in heavy rain would have kept residents awake,and with the damage that does to the body clock and one's ability to work.
Ya, 1 billion swelled to 10 billion .. money lined corrupt players along the way.. lack of peer review sited as slurry walls leaked all over the place... it was stupidly managed by greedy politicians and backdoor deals with construction and vendor companies.. Typical Massachusetts politics...
Having worked in the government (not USA), the decision to build with a limited budget vs not building at all is a dilemma faced everytime. Construction projects often exceed their initial estimates due to unforeseen circumstances eg. ground conditions, increased material costs. Even value engineering can only minimise it, not eliminate cost overruns. If political will to finish the project despite insufficient funds results in the finished product, the outcome will be a product with high maintenance costs and shorter lifespan.
Another thing that fucked everything over are current laws. Because there are laws that give local governments a lot of power. But those governments have no interest in bigger infrastructure projects. Therefor not willing to cooperate and the highspeed rail project had to change the route in a less logical one based on the local governments that were willing to cooperate
Idk, it seems to me allowing local government say is a good with. They just showed you what happens when you allow too much control to higher levels of government too. California is especially known for absorbing so much money and taking so much tax payer dollars, that I don't blame them for trying to take back their loan. No wonder so many people are leaving the state
Wow, I had heard of both of the buildings that melted stuff, but I had no idea that they were both designed by the same engineer. I'll bet he doesn't get much work now.
I think you could add every city that has ever hosted either the Olympics or the World Cup over the past 60 years. Everyone of them had to build what became single use multi billion dollar infrastructure often at the cost of livelihoods if not actual lives.
@@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341 This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please. God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it. What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning. Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :) Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc. Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars? Please read below. These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it. I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot. If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better? Please share this message with family and friends for great reward as giving invitation to God has great reward in the next life. Copy this message and share it in the link below: pastebin.com/hdvANthz Thank you for reading and have a great day! 😊
He made dozens of beautiful projects and 2 bad ones, and the walkie talkie one isn't even his fault, he made a fix for the sun thing but they decided to scrap that part off the building plans for some reason
Crapefornea voters were too stupid to change to a different person to stop the rail. After underwear Brown streak, they voted brown stain Gavin nuisance to continue the moneypit.
The first one wasn't really a construction mistake, more of a lack of maintenance. Sounds like the design was good, with emergency options built in.......but the footage was entertaining.
As a citizen of Oroville They did not inspect it as they were supposed to in 2013/14, which typically is done by drilling test samples out of areas to inspect the concrete decay/dmg, never did such. I've had to evacuate 3x now in this town The reason the dam took so long to fix, was because Kiewit the mining/construction company made responsible for the repair, was secretly Gold Mining the fuking dam and hill side. My dad worked for them and i went up there a few times with him, and they told all workers no photos or videos, they had slues boxes up there filtering gold, used alot of explosives on the dam too, laid everyone off repeatedly per 2 weeks, over worked workers, and neglected the 120 degree temperature on the spillway overheating workers into heatstrokes working ppl 6-7 days a week 14hrs a day. which resulted in fines against them and then required water breaks every 30 minutes, and many ppl were helicoptered out for overheating, my dad secretly took pictures of the hole in the spillway, there was a huge gold vein in the thing, and my dad gave me a lil nugget he found.
The Vajont Dam in Italy, an incredible engeneering mistake that caused a huge landslide to overflow the dam, resulting in the total destruction of many towns on the way.
Not true. It was built on incompetent substrate, with next to no rebar, and inadequate drainage. Incompetent maintenance just made very bad a lot worse.
Read the book "Why Buildings Fall Down" if you're interested in structural failure. There are lots of famous examples and the author goes in depth with each one
@@oceanbuoy6563 This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please. God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it. What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning. Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :) Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc. Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars? Please read below. These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it. I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot. If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better? Please share this message with family and friends for great reward as giving invitation to God has great reward in the next life. Copy this message and share it in the link below: pastebin.com/hdvANthz Thank you for reading and have a great day! 😊
4:12 -- The problem with the Tacoma Narrows bridge was that the bridge's designer (Leon Moisseiff) tried to minimize the amount of costly steel in the bridge by eliminating the usual trussing of the bridge deck. That made the bridge deck too weak. When winds caused the deck to flex (due to aerodynamic flutter), the flexing would amplify the effect, and finally the bridge broke.
In other words, Galloping Gertie was a disaster because it tried *not* to be costly. And the engineers at the time didn't understand aerodynamic flutter enough to pull that off - or to stabilize it well enough in time.
@@blitheringrando1410 I don't think we can fault them too much, not much was known about the effects of wind on structures like that in those days. I DO fault the dog's owner for driving out onto that bridge and then running away and leaving his dog behind.😠
@@NLJ1953 This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please. God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it. What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning. Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :) Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc. Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars? Please read below. These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it. I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot. If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better? Please share this message with family and friends for great reward as giving invitation to God has great reward in the next life. Copy this message and share it in the link below: pastebin.com/hdvANthz Thank you for reading and have a great day! 😊
None of that is correct, the project was around 30% of its completion and the investment was majorly private so when the cancellation happened lot of investors had to be indemnified, raising costs. No corruption was found except the Army who built the perimetral wall and it's now fully building the new airport.
Sorry Mexico, you should not dare to move axis of aviation in favor of Mexico, prosperity of Mexicans with the idea of constructing such airport. Families who controls the global media and finance and country parliaments would never let you finish it which they did. In Turkey they tried to cancel two airport constructions but freely elected politicians and people did not give a way to so called leftist opposition who are low cost servants of those media, finance owners’ interest to cancel those airports. Now newly constructed İstanbul Grand Airport over performing than Frankfurt and London airports.
i remember speeding through town with my cat and boyfriend at 19 yrs old to get to higher grounds during the oroville damn evacuation, the whole town was in a frenzy. a crazy day
This was a crazy time. No one knows what to do and people had no where to to. It took over 2 hours to drive through our less than 2 mile long Town after they told us to evacuate
A costly construction mistake? American Dream Meadowlands comes to mind, a mall that's meant to be a whole entertainment complex with an indoor ski slope, Ferris wheel, DreamWorks water park, and Nickelodeon theme park. This mall was first planned in 1994, and its construction has been off and on whether it's because of financial issues or switching owners. It finally opened in Fall 2019 at a cost of five billion dollars...pretty awful timing because of the pandemic around the corner in 2020. Now the mall is relying on NJ tax revenue to stay afloat. The mall just can't catch a break...the land is even more cursed when there's an arena (once called Izod Center; former home of the NJ Devils and Nets) that's currently abandoned.
The Tacoma Bridge did not come down because of high winds. The 30-40mph winds were close to the bridge's frequency of resonance, and magnified the bridge's movements, causing ever-increasing undulations.
This isnt correct either. It was attributed to flutter, a specific pattern of air vortices which is the same effect that makes seatbelts knock around sometimes when a cars window is opened. The way the bridge moves in the video is not consistent with it being resonance....it was twisting rather than oscillating in a single plane
The information about the Texcoco Airport is incomplete. 1 The Texcoco remaning contracts were transfered to the Santa Lucia airport. 2 The materials and some metallic structeres already placed were scrapped and also transported to the new airport. 3 Yes Santa Lucia is smaller compared to the Texcoco render showed (the versión of 2065) but if texcoco were built the current airport with his two terminals and 60 gates would be useless. Santa Lucia will operate simultaneusly with the current airport Benito Juarez. 4 The military base was demolished and rebuilt with modern installations and a museum with the mammoth bones found on the area. 5 The current airport usage taxes of Benito Juarez is above 20 dollars, Texcoco was planned to be 40. Santa Lucia will be 6.
As a native Californian, I can say that the California high-speed rail was managed about as well as everything in this screwed-up state. It's a complete disaster.
I think if they used the funds wasted on High Speed Rail and fixed the roads, dams and bridges in this state , it would have had a more positive effect on California's economy.
Just because the side of the building acts as a giant mirror focusing the light doesn’t make the facade any better for solar paneling. In fact it would be worse, since it has a larger surface area than a straight-sided building for the same amount of sunlight blocked/captured. What *would* be effective is to put solar panels where the pool is, as that’s where the sunlight is magnified. Traditional silicon panels generate more electricity roughly in proportion to the power of the light, easily up to 2x sunlight.
The introduction of the Fyra highspeed train at THE Netherlands. Those italian Made highspeedtrain was not winter proof, and after three months returned to Italy. THE Netherlands were set back 15 years in railroad time. We lost 700 miljion €.
@@ultron2-465 Major delays in delivery, those that were delivered had major errors. The IC4 quality of the trains was so poor that they constantly broke down. Meanwhile, the 30-year-old Danish-built IC3 trains are still running without problems. But because they have spent so much energy and time on fixing IC4. Then it has gone beyond the maintenance of IC3. So they start to be in poor condition. Danish quality > Italien quality (It is technically wrong to use the word quality and Italy in the same sentence)
The major design flaw in the Tacoma bridge was the lack in accounting for harmonic motion. Supports need to be spaced at irregular intervals to dampen it. The bridge became a guitar string of sorts as a result.
I’m Mexican, it was cancelled because it last expresident was robbing money from the construction that was costing a lot a lot of money and it never finish constructed. Also current president cancelled because that area flood very easy and pretty much. But after cancelled he star construct another one cheaper, better, less need of maintain and it will be finished soon, and used part of materials of that white elephant
they just camceled it. because. it would cost 5 times the price l. real. the kings of corruption the old regime. 1000%. Viva AMLO viva Mexico 🇲🇽. Rat free
@@pedroglez288 I'm also Mexican and even AMLO's gov said that there were no signals of corruption in the project (Jiménez Espriu own words) they claimed at the end that it was cancelled due "technical issues" that never could explain, the truth is that the only reason the NAIM was cancelled was polítical revenge on what EPN legacy would be
The recent local news on the "Bullet Train" is that it will be low speed in many areas, the least useful, easiest to build sections are being done first. I road my bike across the railroad tracks in the San Francisco Bay area for 4 years of high school This is a densely populated, very expensive area. Doing this last is just whistling past the graveyard. It turns out "Too Big To Fail" is not true.
Oroville Dam: Despite setback few years back, this dam and spillway construction is one of the greatest engineering work in U.S.A., there were great many engineers of 19th and early 20th century contributed to build America.
I'm mexican and I can explain a little bit more about the airport. The new president decided that everything made by the lasts presidents was made with corruption and that airport was no exception. He did said that the airport was been built in a lake, which it is, but that lake ceased to exist a long time ago and and, (this is the funny part), the airport he is remodeling in right next to a hill that he failed to see, an entire hill. And not only that. In the process of remodeling they are finding mammoth bones by the hundreds but instead of making an anqueological area, he is moving away all the bones because he said that he will complete the airport because fuck everybody against me, i'm the president and if you dont like what i'm doing you are part of the corruption. In the matter of the survey, the survey had not legal power, it was made outside of the goverment records. With the help of the presidents political party. But the president had already made the decision of canceling the other airport. He just wanted to let the people belived that he was lintening the people when the choice was already made. Our president made a campain against the corruption stating that old goverments were corrupted when he is more corrupted than any other precidency. And when he is shown that his people are stealing (literally stealing), he says that others stole more. there is videos of his own brothers receiving money thousands of dollars but its not corruption if its in his behalf or if you are in his party.
The Three Gorges Dam is pretty much a build-up of construction mistakes upon mistakes, from weak concrete to mistaken altitude and water-pressure figures. It is a miracle the dam ever completed in the first place, and every major flood which it is rated for to withstand with ease puts it to breaking point, with 'fail-safe's' failing regularly. It would not be a surprise if it were to break through in ten years time.
@@muhdaimanharith The satellite photo showing deformation in that article is fake, you can use Google maps to see that it does not look like that at all.
After the dam began operating there was an avalanche of fake disaster stories put out about it....mostly from Taiwan and the US regime, yet it still functions.....
The flaw in the Tacoma Narrows bridge was not in its support issues. The deck had been designed far too slender. Its railings represented an almost wing like surface which caused air to oscillate as it moved above and below the deck. The new deck is vented, and its side profile is also air flow friendly
Ive stayed at Vdara about 8 years ago, and remember just how hot it was on that patio! we had no idea it was sun heat reflecting off of the building until i found this video! wow
@@anarchyRozen exactly, under normal circunstances as long as their period is prosperous, debting the country in the long run is the next president's problem, that concept applies to most countries.
I remember the quarter billion dollar power plant the USA built that really had no fuel source and was too far away from population centers. It sat to rot.
Muskrat Falls damn in Newfoundland should be on this list as a project that was over budget and actually raised the cost of electricity for it's people. While I generally avoid doom and gloom style videos it's nice to hear what became of projects that were hyped 5-10 years ago.
I’ve worked on the California “bullet train boondoggle to nowhere” for the past year. The problems with this enormous project were barely touched on by this video. There have been land acquisition problems (no, they can’t just seize property from farm owners) leading this sleek 250mph futuristic train to zig zag all over the Central Valley, wandering wherever it can find available land to build upon. There are enormous bridges going up all over the place, crossing flood plains, existing highways and railroads. Even if this project will ever be completed, finding willing riders will be the next big challenge. Who needs to get to Merced from Bakersfield that doesn’t already own a car or want to take the existing Amtrak railway option?
That’s insane how poorly they planned that one out. It’s really a shame though. America really needs better public transportation options and I believe high speed rails between cities would be really popular and useful. It’s hard to believe people dealing with projects and money that big and they don’t think ahead… And the way they start building without even owning the land for the route yet??? Just stupidity.
The project was doomed early on. The original planned route was along of eastern foothills of the costal ranges, a sparsely populated area where land acquisition would be cheap. But Jerry Brown caved in to politicians from Fresno saying Fresno needed jobs. So now, land acquisition cost has skyrocketed and is bogged down in litigation. And with a stop in Fresno the time of travel is no longer can compete with air travel.. The project may be eventually completed but nobody but train freaks will ride it.
Also building over fault lines is always a bad idea. They would have made more money if they chose to build a train from Mexico to Las Vegas instead. Not only would it give relief to U.S. borders but Las Vegas could also recover from their tourist losses caused by the pandemic.
they should've just finished it. in reality the sinking problem was very minor but because Nieto's approval was falling, the press started exaggerating things for the people to turn against him. Obviously it would've been an expensive project but even if it took 20 years to build it would be a profitable airport Also, the current mexico city airport isn't all that busy, just outdated
Mega projects really need long-term planning. I feel the current presidency should not veto mega projects signed by the previous presidency. Of course, evaluation and supervision should be enforced in a timely manner.
Have you looked into the insane water demands of the tech industry? There are too many people and too many Industries taking too much water out of a infrastructure that is already too taxed.
@@deejayimm isnt California a rich state cant it provide citizens free water and electricity...the Delhi cm,aka pikachu from third world country provides this to its citizens... Protest against ur gov.. why shall normal people suffer for billionaires...
@@sanjeevanirajput3747 we definitely have a corruption problem, but when you colonize a desert, eventually the water starts running out. Especially when you start putting businesses that waste water out there instead of some place where water isnt so scarce. The problem is probably more a failure to recognize the problem, than anything else. But I would not be surprised if the government is responsible directly. There is so much corruption here.
@@sanjeevanirajput3747 if you have enough money you can do anything, but it will never change the fact that you are only a few bad decisions or disasters away from nature showing you who's boss...
I live in San Francisco a few buildings over from Millenium tower which I passed everyday and grew up in Las Vegas so I just love how most of these projects in part one and two are things I’ve witness first hand. I only stay at Vdara when I go to Vegas and experienced the laser beams on my skin. I remember the Orville dam when it was happening in real time. Also the Harmon hotel I always thought I was having memory issues. I was like wasn’t there a building right here? Where did it go! Also the Fountainbleau is another royal mistake on the strip. Have you covered that yet? I fear in the near future another major failure will be the extension of Caltrain from 4th & King in SF to the Transbay Terminal. I believe it will cost 3 Billion to dig less than a mile underground. SF is so stupid with cost. I’ll see you in part 3. 😅
So truuue that extension on top of the conversion of Caltrain to electric has been costly. We already have seen a delay of the Caltrain reopening from 2022 to 2024. :/
I LOVE the high speed rail project in CA as it's an example of how badly managed the state is. So far $50 Billion pumped into trying to build what was 900+ miles (now about 230 miles) and still no end in sight. And in the meantime the state suffers from power problems, crime problems, water problems, and more. $50 Billion could have gone a long way to improve and eliminate many of the states current problems. But nooooo .. those idiots have to have a useless high speed rail which will have to be subsidized for eternity as it will never make a profit.
@@pierreblaise9433 You know that saying both and then referring to three things shows the exact mentality of the California politicians leading to this mess? Sorry could not resists. And yes a well though out process can provide for multiple things. The problem in California is the lack of thought. They are so focused on getting a high speed rail, those sleek 300 mph trains, that they have poured all this money into a project that is achieving NONE of the goals you mentioned. They are not focusing their resources and money on what should be priority as they keep pouring money down the high speed rail hole. At as if someone sat down, wrote out a list of all the problems in the state, decided to prioritize, and then went "ohhh look at the pretty" and moved that to the top of the list ignoring everything else. They've thrown the future of the state under the bus for the potential to have something shiny (and won't even be high speed now once done). They were told it would be WAY more expensive and longer to achieve and they ignored the experts. So now everyone suffers and you do not get "Both".
There is also the most expensive (unfinished) highway in the world that is 32km long and started 51 years ago… in Switzerland between Siders and Brig. Only 10km is finished. As of today, it costs $168M per km. By comparison, the most expensive US highway costed $ 7M per km. Delays and enormous costs are mostly due to poor management, low-level corruption, and most important, environmentalists.
You can't designate environmentalists as part of the problem. If a project is not ok with those groups then you shoudn't start it until you have an agreement. Same thing if you don't own the land yet. Don't put the blame of the land owners who have always say they will never sell.
@@Kiev-in-3-days Your point makes sense in 2021, but construction started 51 years ago…… Environmental concerns have changed over the years. « Environmental » groups were fine with the project as such in 1970. Later their concerns grew and in the nineties the government agreed on a list of « green actions ». To this date, most of them were not respected. As a cause AND result, the environmentalists keep blocking the construction through legal actions. Can we blame them ? Probably not, things have changed since the 70s and glad we now care a bit more about the environment. Are they part of the problem ? Definitely, it’s a fact, blocking the construction costs in time and money. Whether we support their cause or not, I don t think we can deny this fact.
@@Kiev-in-3-days oh and for your information, in Switzerland you can t start a construction unless environmental groups have given their approval (or the court). In 1970 they had ;)
One winter with 1/3 less rain and snow and that's "droughts out the wazoo" to you. You need to turn your TV off. Do you live in Oroville? Did you not notice the lake being drained for the first six months of 2021?
The government did not manage the construction of the Tacoma narrows bridge. That work was contracted out to private design and construction contractors, who made the mistakes all on their own.
As bad as all that money loss sounds, I really think Mexico made the right decision to abandon the airport and avoid it being totally useless and costing a WHOLE lot more than what they already spent. Even the smaller airport managing 20 million is better than one that is already starting to sink before a single plane has landed.
I think the first Panama Canal attempt by France is the most expensive decision mistake. Besides the millions lost at that time, it greatly affected the overall French economy back home. And estimates are that 20,000 workers died
The Spanish building Mexico City on top of Lake Texcoco by draining it destroyed the balance. Axolotls used to thrive on Lake Texcoco, and now thanks to water pollution and introduction of invasive species, the axolotl is pretty much extinct in the wild. At least the government is taking the steps to acknowledge its mistakes by turning the Texcoco Airport site into an ecological park.
It’s insulting when you say no one was injured during the narrows bridge collapse. The cocker spaniel named tubby lost his life when he was left behind 😭
You should mention the collapse of the terminal building at the Charles De Gaul airport in France due to the effects of heat and cold expansion and contraction
The Oroville dam is not a Construction Mistake. After construction it operated for 50 years. In fact the video acknowledges, the problem with Oroville dam was it was not maintained properly. As anyone can tell you. Nothing will last if its not maintained. As you could not get that right I did not bother going past 2 minutes.
@@davidgraham2673 This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please. God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it. What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning. Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :) Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc. Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars? Please read below. These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it. I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot. If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better? Please share this message with family and friends for great reward as giving invitation to God has great reward in the next life. Copy this message and share it in the link below: pastebin.com/hdvANthz Thank you for reading and have a great day! 😊
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You could do an ancient world edition - Bent Pyramid (not in cost so much as wasted time; it took that pharaoh's builders 3 tries and I can't remember how many decades to design a pyramid that stayed up),the Antonine Wall, arguably the Great Wall (did it actually work as a defensive wall, or was it overrun soon after being built?), Henry VII's chapel at Eton... trying to think of others. On a more recent but sobering note, the White Sea Canal was one of those Soviet projects which was presented as a great triumph, but was nearly useless due to the rushed job, yet it claimed thousands of lives.
From what I heard from a friend of mine, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was one of the influences to the creation of the Order of the Engineer and the Engineer's Ring.
Suggestion for a new topic: Water waste problem in California i.e. allowing millions of gallons of fresh river water to flow into the sea instead of where it is most needed -farmland and human habitation.
@@johna.4334 You already stopped the Colorado River, you just want to solve a problem with the creation of an other… I know : People don’t like to change their behavior but it’s the thing to do…
I love that Top Luxury share information that not many of us that came from Europe and Asia know about such as the first and the last one. I was like lookong for such a content creator but most of them share the same content, and i finally found 1 that explain eith proofs of most of their information. And prolly 2 weeks later i found Top Luxury
@@oOZdemOo Or you could just do a quick google search and see that in Tianjin there is a 600m skyscraper which has essentially been abandoned. This channel is heavily US-centric, that's why the projects are all North American.
The irony that the 50’s is why we’re concerned for the environment. You still have a good point, it’s just that the environmental concern is a good thing, not a bad one.
My builder almost forgot to glue water pipe under my swimming pool. I checked and discover it myself in the last seconds, or otherwise there would be serious water leak under the pool forever... scary. P.s. and it surpass my initial budget estimate by about 2 times...seem to be common problem made by everyone in this video too
Good point Toti. Prior to World War 2 LA had a fine mass transport system. Now you have to take buses to buses between cities. No local train per se. San Diego has its MT which is good for tourists but useless for daily workers or commuters
Sadly he got it a little wrong. A few had driven out. The car that fell into the water had a dog trapped inside. left behind by its owner when they ran.
Oraville dam, total mismanagement by the State. during the dry season they saw cracks in the spillway, but decided to not fix it. that was the cause of the disaster. RECALL NEWSOM!
i think that "Le Stade Olympique de Montréal" could be in the top 10 of this list by far. Guess what, we are still paying for this stadium 45 years after the 1976 summer games
I think we finished paying for it a year or two ago. At least this means in men can give birth there now: “The Montreal Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby,” former Montréal Mayor Jean Drapeau.
It finally was paid off a few years back, I believe the total bill was 1.6 billion dollars for that dump. I wish the expos would comeback but the Big Owe is left in everyone's mind when bringing baseball back and funding comes up.
The Teton Dam in east Idaho is one of the biggest blunders in construction. It was a massive earthen dam built in the 70's and took 4 years to complete, costing $48,825,000 ($346,109,678 today). Once complete, they began filling it. It took about 8 months to fill. It then promptly sprung a leak and broke: partly because the emergency spillways weren't complete, and partly because the earth used was porous volcanic soil which, unlike clay, doesn't seal fractures that form in it over time. It flooded the nearby cities of Rexburg and Hibbard and resulted in $322,000,000 ($1,676,839,050 today) of damage.
Your natural frequency is a daily fist in the face. Don't pretend to know things you don't know and quit using Gwyneth Paltrow jibberish as your way of communicating. 🤡
the problem with California is that they didn't bring in the Japanese who are experts in the field. I've heard Japan even said they'd help but CA and/or the people running in their infinite wisdom thought they could do better. Having Japans help would have undoubtably helped this project if for nothing else they know what they're doing. And it's truly sad because America needs high speed rails in combination with upgraded infrastructure. Instead, because of CA and the ridiculous price tag of building anything the CA High Speed rail has become a punching bag slamming the idea of high speed rail systems in the US.
Yes the Shinkansen is awesome but train projects at this price tag for Americans who barely use trains for travel was bound to be a boondoggle. But Californians fell for the bait, MONORAIL! MONORAIL! They could have built a number of highways or augmented urban transit and come out with tons of new toys and results to show for it. Now all they have is a train no will use for tens of billions of dollars. It was liberal train marketing at its finest and it so delicious to see it fail.
Why constructing elevated surfaces over pillars? We in Spain have 3700 km of high-speed rail network, but everything (except bridges crossing rivers or huge valleys) is built on land and nothing is elevated at all. If a road (or even a highway) *must* cross the railway because their paths can ony be perpendicular, it's the road the one which is rebuilt to go under or over at that exact spot, not the other way round! How could cars have priority? Are you crazy? Excuse me if I didn't choose the correct terminology, english is not my first language. Our HSR costs 18 million euros per kilometre, don't know if US costs differ too much.
@@shikniwho7215 Using the building to reflect the light means your get more with less solar panels... the building will still function as a building with windows... while the solar panels will be more efficient. Putting the panels on the building wont really help anything.
@@Joe-cd1jx except that solar modukes are less efficient as they get hot. So you may want a solar collector that uses a working thermal fluid, which I believe are generally less efficient than solar modules
I am actually huge supporter of California High Speed Rail. The problem is reducing the length. Key to project is to connect San Francisco to LA. Not doing such, does make it a waste. Completing it, though way over budget will at least make it usable.
You have to look at the future potential of these flyover cities and towns. CA is the 4th of 5th largest economy in the world. It can certainly afford to invest in a high speed rail.
I kinda find I weird that the Tacoma bridge engineers didn’t see any faults in their design…. I mean they literally had 2 perfect examples to to borrow from…
It's not that they didn't see faults, it's that there wasn't sufficient widespread comprehensive understanding of aerodynamic flutter for them to realize how dangerous those faults were. Also, they were trying to keep the cost of the bridge down by minimizing the amount of steel used, because they were working under budget constraints.
I haven't seen the other videos, but, wondered about the Zimmer Power Plant in Moscow, OH. Purportedly a nuclear plant built to ~90% on the reactor side. Then scrapped with a coal-fired boiler used to provide steam to the steam island. Now the reactor vessel is used as a storage facility.
Just so you know: The Mexico City airport referendum was not organized by the government but rather by the president’s party and although most of those who voted voted for the cancelation of the airport, less than 3% of the eligible voters actually voted.
@@livelyupmyself1 We DO vote. Our last midterm elections (which resulted in an humiliating defeat of the presidents party) had 60% turnout. However the referendum was, from its announcement, a lost cause, there was no way the president would’ve broken his campaign promise. Only his Loyal supporters turned out (to comically organized and scattered placed stations) to confirm what almost everybody knew was going to happen. PS The president-proposed airport is located 2 hours away from Mexico City center. There’s no infrastructure, no viability studies, and no major airlines want to use it.
The Philippines' Bataan Nuclear Power Plant which was the first in southeast asia but never been used after its completion because of various reasons by the late president Corazon Aquino (the president after former president Ferdinand Marcos who initiated the project.
That's some real shit... Named Apsara, the reactor was housed in a 100 x 50 x 70 concrete building. India's and Asia's first nuclear reactor, Apsara reached criticality at 3:45 p.m on 4 August 1956 and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Nehru on 20 January 1957. It helps power many industries here ..go for it..but india was under sanctions for 10yrs for first nuclear test from E.U. and America so its western pressure ur gov..is facing..nothing else... If phillipines now is kept under sanctions it will destroy ur economy may be that is the reason ur leaders dont want to step in this shit..
The architect of the walkie talkie building did not learned his lesson and still continued to build concave mirrored buildings that heat pools, melts cars and even fried eggs😅
In South Africa we have two Coal power stations, Kusile and Madupe. It was planned to be completed within 5 years, it took more than 10 years. With corruption and poor planning the projects cost was over 500% of the budget and after it is completed the stations are only 50% effective compared to what was planned when it was designed. Now due to these two mega projects failures the country has rolling blackouts, and in dire need of electricity. The cost of construction and loss due to to electricity shortages makes this the biggest failures and most expensive South Africa have ever experience.
Check out Betuweroute in Netherlands. A 4.7 billion railway, it is our most expensive project but also our most painful project that just keeps failing on and on. It is a long story
@@helpmetoreach1ksubcribers233 What does a vid of some guy bending pencil rod into stirrups, and then setting rebar for a pad have to do with the high speed rail joke.
Do you know of similar construction mistakes in your country? 🏗️🤔
@Peace Bro Irrelevant
Surfside Florida may have a story for you
India: statue of unity worth of 3000 cr
so basically near where i live theres a shopping centre that looks like a thingy
LRT in Astana, we call it “the monument of corruption”
The mistakes made in Berlin Brandenburg Airport are so massive that they deserve to be part of Part 2 as well. And parts 3 and 4 at least.
Hahaha👌
@@MegaBuildsYT They wasted a few billion euros in this project and it took 10 years longer to complete. That's a true fail 😂
don't forget the makeover of Stuttgart Hbf :D they're still a long way from being done
They screwed that up so badly. You could literally make a comedy about it.
Heathrow airport expansion project should be in this list.
I was a project engineer on the Oroville Dam Reconstruction Project. The spillway was never designed for an upward pressure by underground water table. This caused the spillway to crack and the running water did the rest. I worked on an underground secant pile wall, an underground wall reinforcing the hillside so the emergency spillway water wouldn't destroy the whole hill.
I imagine they knew it was going to fail LONG before it did and never put money towards a fix even though they told were many times... instead just let it fail and then they had an "Emergency"
@@johnb9394 yeah that was the story.
I lived in oroville and this information was made apparent so quickly
Hard to say we didn't know there was a problem before the emergency hit, when it was well publicized long before the emergency. The responsible parties kept spending the repair funds on pet projects, believing that the emergency scenario would never truly come, or that they at least had lots of time.
@@davidgraham2673
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Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc.
Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars?
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"Do you know of other projects that might have got even worse?"
Yeah my whole fkn country
Ouch
yes you mean south african government and those who support them year in year out
@@etiennenel4494 i mean morocco
@@gicfjd1919 please do tell me about it going on in morocco, in south africa they have stolen some 4 quadriple million rand and a whole lot of meaningfull numbers after that
lol
The worst one in the New England area was Boston's "The big dig" to put a new tunnel under the city. Went way way over budget and took forever. Concrete slabs have fallen from the ceiling in the tunnel from faulty hardware and killed people driving through. Probably a good one for part 3.
Concrete is useless as a building material.it is not water resistant.i used to live in an apartment block in the u k,which was made from a concrete grid.the flat roof let rainwater into the flats directly underneath it .there was no escape for rain whatsoever onto the ground below.even then,the noise in heavy rain would have kept residents awake,and with the damage that does to the body clock and one's ability to work.
Also took all the funds from the transit authority leading to low maintenance on the Boston Metro leading to all the issues seen now
Ya, 1 billion swelled to 10 billion .. money lined corrupt players along the way.. lack of peer review sited as slurry walls leaked all over the place... it was stupidly managed by greedy politicians and backdoor deals with construction and vendor companies.. Typical Massachusetts politics...
Wasn’t that Ted Kennedy pet pork project
California high speed rail is one of the perfect examples of cost cutting which led to massive overbudgeting
Having worked in the government (not USA), the decision to build with a limited budget vs not building at all is a dilemma faced everytime. Construction projects often exceed their initial estimates due to unforeseen circumstances eg. ground conditions, increased material costs. Even value engineering can only minimise it, not eliminate cost overruns. If political will to finish the project despite insufficient funds results in the finished product, the outcome will be a product with high maintenance costs and shorter lifespan.
Another thing that fucked everything over are current laws. Because there are laws that give local governments a lot of power. But those governments have no interest in bigger infrastructure projects. Therefor not willing to cooperate and the highspeed rail project had to change the route in a less logical one based on the local governments that were willing to cooperate
Oh yeah and land purchase is also one of them
Idk, it seems to me allowing local government say is a good with. They just showed you what happens when you allow too much control to higher levels of government too. California is especially known for absorbing so much money and taking so much tax payer dollars, that I don't blame them for trying to take back their loan. No wonder so many people are leaving the state
Commiefornia, especially under Senor Wilson, is a prime example of the proverbial "wet dream" syndrome!
Wow, I had heard of both of the buildings that melted stuff, but I had no idea that they were both designed by the same engineer. I'll bet he doesn't get much work now.
Hopefully he finally learned that it's not a good idea to put parabolas on buildings.
*the same architect
he's inspired by tesla
Au contraire. I think it's hilarious. I'll take two!
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I think you could add every city that has ever hosted either the Olympics or the World Cup over the past 60 years. Everyone of them had to build what became single use multi billion dollar infrastructure often at the cost of livelihoods if not actual lives.
Olympic hosts Atlanta, London, Munich and Los Angeles immediately come to mind as contradictions to "everyone of them".
@@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341
This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please.
God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it.
What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning.
Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :)
Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc.
Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars?
Please read below.
These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it.
I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot.
If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better?
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Nah, Sydney Olympic Park (2000 games) still in use --- well not right now cos COVID, but generally, gets some good use.
Yes,indeed.tge world cup is a false God that causes delerium in city rulers and residents alike.
How are you going to design two death Ray buildings and still get hired
Some people just want to see the world burn.
@@matthewgully1162 lol
He made dozens of beautiful projects and 2 bad ones, and the walkie talkie one isn't even his fault, he made a fix for the sun thing but they decided to scrap that part off the building plans for some reason
ngl it is his ugliest project tho
@@matthewgully1162 literally
The California "Low" Speed Rail is the biggest boondoggle in my opinion!!!!!
Crapefornea voters were too stupid to change to a different person to stop the rail. After underwear Brown streak, they voted brown stain Gavin nuisance to continue the moneypit.
The first one wasn't really a construction mistake, more of a lack of maintenance. Sounds like the design was good, with emergency options built in.......but the footage was entertaining.
Entertaining misinformation....
Yeah, the second wasn't either, it's not really a mistake if it's something nobody even knew was a problem at the time.
It was a construction mistake, but more like a miscalculation. It wasn’t designed for an upward underground water table
As a citizen of Oroville
They did not inspect it as they were supposed to in 2013/14, which typically is done by drilling test samples out of areas to inspect the concrete decay/dmg, never did such.
I've had to evacuate 3x now in this town
The reason the dam took so long to fix, was because Kiewit the mining/construction company made responsible for the repair, was secretly Gold Mining the fuking dam and hill side.
My dad worked for them and i went up there a few times with him, and they told all workers no photos or videos, they had slues boxes up there filtering gold, used alot of explosives on the dam too, laid everyone off repeatedly per 2 weeks, over worked workers, and neglected the 120 degree temperature on the spillway overheating workers into heatstrokes working ppl 6-7 days a week 14hrs a day. which resulted in fines against them and then required water breaks every 30 minutes, and many ppl were helicoptered out for overheating, my dad secretly took pictures of the hole in the spillway, there was a huge gold vein in the thing, and my dad gave me a lil nugget he found.
The Vajont Dam in Italy, an incredible engeneering mistake that caused a huge landslide to overflow the dam, resulting in the total destruction of many towns on the way.
poor people tend to live in clusters
And killed over 2000 peoples.
I disagree Oroville was a construction mistake. The original spillway lasted a longtime. It was the imperfect maintenance that destroyed it.
Did you see any rebar sticking out of the broken spillway?
@@phillipkalaveras1725 Are you trying to say there was no rebar in the old spillway?
Grady over at Practical Engineering gives a more in-depth look at this one, that I found really interesting.
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Not true. It was built on incompetent substrate, with next to no rebar, and inadequate drainage.
Incompetent maintenance just made very bad a lot worse.
@@philiphorner31 and yet it still lasted many decades. Hindsight is a wonderful thing...
Read the book "Why Buildings Fall Down" if you're interested in structural failure. There are lots of famous examples and the author goes in depth with each one
Heading to Amazon now...
What's a 'book'?
@@oceanbuoy6563
This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please.
God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it.
What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning.
Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :)
Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc.
Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars?
Please read below.
These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it.
I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot.
If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better?
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@@Akuma3000GT Did you get the book?
4:12 -- The problem with the Tacoma Narrows bridge was that the bridge's designer (Leon Moisseiff) tried to minimize the amount of costly steel in the bridge by eliminating the usual trussing of the bridge deck. That made the bridge deck too weak. When winds caused the deck to flex (due to aerodynamic flutter), the flexing would amplify the effect, and finally the bridge broke.
In other words, Galloping Gertie was a disaster because it tried *not* to be costly. And the engineers at the time didn't understand aerodynamic flutter enough to pull that off - or to stabilize it well enough in time.
Also a dog died.
@@Minimalist_sway Yes, a dog died, there WAS a casualty when that bridge collapsed.
@@JeffDeWitt noooo, you bastards! (The cheap engineers/money men, not you)
@@blitheringrando1410 I don't think we can fault them too much, not much was known about the effects of wind on structures like that in those days. I DO fault the dog's owner for driving out onto that bridge and then running away and leaving his dog behind.😠
You neglected to explain why the Tacoma Narrows bridge failed: engineers at the time were unaware of the effects of wind on the bridge deck.
This. Now wind resonance is considered in bridge and building design.
Wind resonance
@@NLJ1953
This proves why we think a God exists. Read on even if you believe in God it will only take 1 minute please.
God had to of create time; and time has a beginning, middle, and end. So God has no beginning as time doesn't apply to him before he created it.
What created the universe? This wouldn't apply to God as God teaches it always existed and God created time so God had no beginning.
Please continue reading below, I only mean for your own good :)
Who created stars and planets if life created itself what created black holes, stars, comets, planets, lava, water, trees, the complex human brain, dreams, hallucinations, etc.
Some refute God with all the suffering in the world, but that is not right. God teaches for every difficulty he honors the person in the next life adequately. And every person suffering would actually prefer to suffer for what they get in the next life. Would you suffer from starvation for 5 years for a million dollars?
Please read below.
These points really proved a God could exist to us and the point of this message isn't to convert you but just show how a God exists and get you to believe it could and not worship it.
I suggest you also believe in God for great reward. You don't spend / lose anything and you will get rewarded a lot.
If you want to know more on how to worship God for more great reward in the hereafter please visit atheismisover.com and see point 4 but read the site all it will take 2 minutes. Imagine a million times the flavor of your favorite food. In paradise you get what you want so wouldnt you want to worship God to make your paradise better?
Please share this message with family and friends for great reward as giving invitation to God has great reward in the next life. Copy this message and share it in the link below:
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That swaying bridge is some nightmare fuel right there, abandoning your car because you can't drive on a flailing bridge.
The Mexico airport and the CA high speed rail project was a fleecing of gov't money to friends of elected politicians
The info on the Mexican airport is incorrect. The project was cancelled at around 20% of development. Most of the funds were recuperated.
None of that is correct, the project was around 30% of its completion and the investment was majorly private so when the cancellation happened lot of investors had to be indemnified, raising costs. No corruption was found except the Army who built the perimetral wall and it's now fully building the new airport.
Sorry Mexico, you should not dare to move axis of aviation in favor of Mexico, prosperity of Mexicans with the idea of constructing such airport. Families who controls the global media and finance and country parliaments would never let you finish it which they did. In Turkey they tried to cancel two airport constructions but freely elected politicians and people did not give a way to so called leftist opposition who are low cost servants of those media, finance owners’ interest to cancel those airports. Now newly constructed İstanbul Grand Airport over performing than Frankfurt and London airports.
Political corrouption scandal
@Yutuber Gen prove it! What is your figures write it here and challenge me then, if you have any piece of clue off course.
i remember speeding through town with my cat and boyfriend at 19 yrs old to get to higher grounds during the oroville damn evacuation, the whole town was in a frenzy. a crazy day
I love how your response implies that it happened "soooo long ago that your were only 19"......happy 22nd bday.
@@nick4819 😄😄😄
@@nick4819 wasn’t implying it was a long time ago, i was pointing out that i was very young and scared when it happened. i’m 23 now but go off queen
What a story to tell your kids
This was a crazy time. No one knows what to do and people had no where to to. It took over 2 hours to drive through our less than 2 mile long Town after they told us to evacuate
A costly construction mistake? American Dream Meadowlands comes to mind, a mall that's meant to be a whole entertainment complex with an indoor ski slope, Ferris wheel, DreamWorks water park, and Nickelodeon theme park. This mall was first planned in 1994, and its construction has been off and on whether it's because of financial issues or switching owners. It finally opened in Fall 2019 at a cost of five billion dollars...pretty awful timing because of the pandemic around the corner in 2020. Now the mall is relying on NJ tax revenue to stay afloat. The mall just can't catch a break...the land is even more cursed when there's an arena (once called Izod Center; former home of the NJ Devils and Nets) that's currently abandoned.
The Tacoma Bridge did not come down because of high winds. The 30-40mph winds were close to the bridge's frequency of resonance, and magnified the bridge's movements, causing ever-increasing undulations.
This isnt correct either. It was attributed to flutter, a specific pattern of air vortices which is the same effect that makes seatbelts knock around sometimes when a cars window is opened.
The way the bridge moves in the video is not consistent with it being resonance....it was twisting rather than oscillating in a single plane
The information about the Texcoco Airport is incomplete.
1 The Texcoco remaning contracts were transfered to the Santa Lucia airport.
2 The materials and some metallic structeres already placed were scrapped and also transported to the new airport.
3 Yes Santa Lucia is smaller compared to the Texcoco render showed (the versión of 2065) but if texcoco were built the current airport with his two terminals and 60 gates would be useless. Santa Lucia will operate simultaneusly with the current airport Benito Juarez.
4 The military base was demolished and rebuilt with modern installations and a museum with the mammoth bones found on the area.
5 The current airport usage taxes of Benito Juarez is above 20 dollars, Texcoco was planned to be 40. Santa Lucia will be 6.
As a native Californian, I can say that the California high-speed rail was managed about as well as everything in this screwed-up state. It's a complete disaster.
I think if they used the funds wasted on High Speed Rail and fixed the roads, dams and bridges in this state , it would have had a more positive effect on California's economy.
The company that won the bid is owned by Diane Feinstein's husband. Think it's a coincidence? If you do, you must be a democrat
A cheaper alternative to high speed rail is a fleet of self driving Teslas running continuously between LA and SF.
Should employed some Chinese engineers.
@@bujmoose3992 public transportation beats cars every time.
7:19: They should have just used the entire facade of these buildings as solar panels. Imagine how much energy would be generated.
Then they will lose the view from inside the rooms
Don't be so foolish.
@@Alex632 how is it foolish? Dont be a dick just inform.
@@Schitcum your right tear down the wind mills
Just because the side of the building acts as a giant mirror focusing the light doesn’t make the facade any better for solar paneling. In fact it would be worse, since it has a larger surface area than a straight-sided building for the same amount of sunlight blocked/captured. What *would* be effective is to put solar panels where the pool is, as that’s where the sunlight is magnified. Traditional silicon panels generate more electricity roughly in proportion to the power of the light, easily up to 2x sunlight.
The introduction of the Fyra highspeed train at THE Netherlands. Those italian Made highspeedtrain was not winter proof, and after three months returned to Italy. THE Netherlands were set back 15 years in railroad time. We lost 700 miljion €.
we have problems with italian train to in Denmark IC4 was delayed and very badly built. Never ever buy italian trains.
@@skak3000 Delay can also be because of the drivers and the Danish infrastructure (maintained by Danish companies).
@@ultron2-465 Major delays in delivery, those that were delivered had major errors. The IC4 quality of the trains was so poor that they constantly broke down.
Meanwhile, the 30-year-old Danish-built IC3 trains are still running without problems. But because they have spent so much energy and time on fixing IC4.
Then it has gone beyond the maintenance of IC3. So they start to be in poor condition.
Danish quality > Italien quality
(It is technically wrong to use the word quality and Italy in the same sentence)
In Norway we have huge problems with our italian trams. I mean they look good like most things designed in Italy, but they are not very functional.
The F35 had a lot of defects when the Netherlands bought 100 of them.. and it was made by the same company who made those defect high speed trains
The Tacoma Narrows bridge is a must study event in every civil engineering course.
The major design flaw in the Tacoma bridge was the lack in accounting for harmonic motion. Supports need to be spaced at irregular intervals to dampen it. The bridge became a guitar string of sorts as a result.
Yeah it wasn't lack of supports, it was their locations.
That Mexico Airport looked very cool and beneficial, sad it failed.
I’m Mexican, it was cancelled because it last expresident was robbing money from the construction that was costing a lot a lot of money and it never finish constructed. Also current president cancelled because that area flood very easy and pretty much. But after cancelled he star construct another one cheaper, better, less need of maintain and it will be finished soon, and used part of materials of that white elephant
Seems same like navi mumbai international airport in India
i mean if you plan to finish something 70 years in the future (2065) its kinda already doomed to fail
they just camceled it. because. it would cost 5 times the price l. real. the kings of corruption the old regime. 1000%. Viva AMLO viva Mexico 🇲🇽. Rat free
@@pedroglez288 I'm also Mexican and even AMLO's gov said that there were no signals of corruption in the project (Jiménez Espriu own words) they claimed at the end that it was cancelled due "technical issues" that never could explain, the truth is that the only reason the NAIM was cancelled was polítical revenge on what EPN legacy would be
It’s surprising the bridges pavement wasn’t falling off in chunks when it was bending that much
Lol, I was wondering if you were going to mention the California Bullet train. Or as we locals call it "Governor Moonbeam's Magic Choo Choo".
Haha 😂
You mean the "Brown-doggle?"
The recent local news on the "Bullet Train" is that it will be low speed in many areas, the least useful, easiest to build sections are being done first. I road my bike across the railroad tracks in the San Francisco Bay area for 4 years of high school This is a densely populated, very expensive area. Doing this last is just whistling past the graveyard. It turns out "Too Big To Fail" is not true.
Oroville Dam:
Despite setback few years back, this dam and spillway construction is one of the
greatest engineering work in U.S.A., there were great many engineers of 19th and early
20th century contributed to build America.
I'm mexican and I can explain a little bit more about the airport.
The new president decided that everything made by the lasts presidents was made with corruption and that airport was no exception. He did said that the airport was been built in a lake, which it is, but that lake ceased to exist a long time ago and and, (this is the funny part), the airport he is remodeling in right next to a hill that he failed to see, an entire hill. And not only that. In the process of remodeling they are finding mammoth bones by the hundreds but instead of making an anqueological area, he is moving away all the bones because he said that he will complete the airport because fuck everybody against me, i'm the president and if you dont like what i'm doing you are part of the corruption.
In the matter of the survey, the survey had not legal power, it was made outside of the goverment records. With the help of the presidents political party. But the president had already made the decision of canceling the other airport. He just wanted to let the people belived that he was lintening the people when the choice was already made.
Our president made a campain against the corruption stating that old goverments were corrupted when he is more corrupted than any other precidency. And when he is shown that his people are stealing (literally stealing), he says that others stole more. there is videos of his own brothers receiving money thousands of dollars but its not corruption if its in his behalf or if you are in his party.
Well said 👌! Thanks for this information.
Thanks to President Obrador, the mammoths were found. Amazing 👏🏽
Ryugyong hotel in North Korea was a 105 floor project that was started in 1987 and abandoned in 2012. Never to be opened.
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Number five wasn’t a construction mistake, it was government malpractice because they refused funds for maintenance.
This applies to most of these "mistakes"
Yeah
Oh so "government malpractice" is what we're calling it now, huh? Did that sound better to focus groups than "massive corruption?"
The government is suppose inspect and fix the problems not put the budget in their pockets and turn a blind eye. Typical Communistfornia
You are Right Daniel. There is no construction mistake but a political whim of Lopez Obrador
The Three Gorges Dam is pretty much a build-up of construction mistakes upon mistakes, from weak concrete to mistaken altitude and water-pressure figures.
It is a miracle the dam ever completed in the first place, and every major flood which it is rated for to withstand with ease puts it to breaking point, with 'fail-safe's' failing regularly.
It would not be a surprise if it were to break through in ten years time.
heard this bs 10 years ago, but the dam still fine
@@muhdaimanharith The satellite photo showing deformation in that article is fake, you can use Google maps to see that it does not look like that at all.
Just like... pick a dam in China, Mao made sure they'd never build reliably again
@@antoniorsoftware the only government that believes that is the CCP, I hate to break it to you, you're repeating Gaslighting misinformation
After the dam began operating there was an avalanche of fake disaster stories put out about it....mostly from Taiwan and the US regime, yet it still functions.....
The flaw in the Tacoma Narrows bridge was not in its support issues. The deck had been designed far too slender. Its railings represented an almost wing like surface which caused air to oscillate as it moved above and below the deck. The new deck is vented, and its side profile is also air flow friendly
Yeah i saw this in discovery chennel
Kim?!
Ive stayed at Vdara about 8 years ago, and remember just how hot it was on that patio! we had no idea it was sun heat reflecting off of the building until i found this video! wow
That airport in Mexico looks too futuristic for this year
future debt for sure
@@Interdicted debts? no worries china will help any country who are indebt for sure :)
Sadly bad politicians makes their best to destroy anything that is future-related
@@anarchyRozen exactly, under normal circunstances as long as their period is prosperous, debting the country in the long run is the next president's problem, that concept applies to most countries.
It's no surprise that two of these boondoggles are located in California. Pure incompetence!
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I know one project that even got worst that's " Afghanistan rebuilding project" cost trillion dollar 😂😂😂
I remember the quarter billion dollar power plant the USA built that really had no fuel source and was too far away from population centers. It sat to rot.
It was cheaper to by the electricity then it was to buy for oil for the generators the fuel was probably sold off anyway due to its high value
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Ohh... and the second is Afghan withdraw... leaving $billions in armaments and American/allies behind enemy line.
Muskrat Falls damn in Newfoundland should be on this list as a project that was over budget and actually raised the cost of electricity for it's people.
While I generally avoid doom and gloom style videos it's nice to hear what became of projects that were hyped 5-10 years ago.
I’ve worked on the California “bullet train boondoggle to nowhere” for the past year. The problems with this enormous project were barely touched on by this video. There have been land acquisition problems (no, they can’t just seize property from farm owners) leading this sleek 250mph futuristic train to zig zag all over the Central Valley, wandering wherever it can find available land to build upon. There are enormous bridges going up all over the place, crossing flood plains, existing highways and railroads. Even if this project will ever be completed, finding willing riders will be the next big challenge. Who needs to get to Merced from Bakersfield that doesn’t already own a car or want to take the existing Amtrak railway option?
Thats the problem with videos like these, they neglect to say the full story of whats going on.. Sadly, many followers would believe it to be true..
That’s insane how poorly they planned that one out. It’s really a shame though. America really needs better public transportation options and I believe high speed rails between cities would be really popular and useful. It’s hard to believe people dealing with projects and money that big and they don’t think ahead… And the way they start building without even owning the land for the route yet??? Just stupidity.
The project was doomed early on. The original planned route was along of eastern foothills of the costal ranges, a sparsely populated area where land acquisition would be cheap. But Jerry Brown caved in to politicians from Fresno saying Fresno needed jobs. So now, land acquisition cost has skyrocketed and is bogged down in litigation. And with a stop in Fresno the time of travel is no longer can compete with air travel.. The project may be eventually completed but nobody but train freaks will ride it.
@@darmony9153 exactly right. Jerry Brown really shit the bed with this current deal.
Also building over fault lines is always a bad idea. They would have made more money if they chose to build a train from Mexico to Las Vegas instead. Not only would it give relief to U.S. borders but Las Vegas could also recover from their tourist losses caused by the pandemic.
I feel so bad for the workers that worked on the airport project, they mustve looked forward to completing it to but their hardwork went to waste
I don’t think the workers cared too much as long as they were paid. The engineers and planers sure were sad though.
Agree, the planner must be sad because one of theirs art never been born
they should've just finished it. in reality the sinking problem was very minor but because Nieto's approval was falling, the press started exaggerating things for the people to turn against him. Obviously it would've been an expensive project but even if it took 20 years to build it would be a profitable airport
Also, the current mexico city airport isn't all that busy, just outdated
Mega projects really need long-term planning. I feel the current presidency should not veto mega projects signed by the previous presidency. Of course, evaluation and supervision should be enforced in a timely manner.
Sometimes you gotta cut your losses. Who knows how much more money Mexico would bleed from the airport
What’s scary is 4 years after the wettest year in Ca we’re have a bad drought.
The politicians in California are brain dead hippys.save water??? Build reservoirs ????oh hellll nooo
Have you looked into the insane water demands of the tech industry?
There are too many people and too many Industries taking too much water out of a infrastructure that is already too taxed.
@@deejayimm isnt California a rich state cant it provide citizens free water and electricity...the Delhi cm,aka pikachu from third world country provides this to its citizens...
Protest against ur gov.. why shall normal people suffer for billionaires...
@@sanjeevanirajput3747 we definitely have a corruption problem, but when you colonize a desert, eventually the water starts running out. Especially when you start putting businesses that waste water out there instead of some place where water isnt so scarce. The problem is probably more a failure to recognize the problem, than anything else. But I would not be surprised if the government is responsible directly. There is so much corruption here.
@@sanjeevanirajput3747 if you have enough money you can do anything, but it will never change the fact that you are only a few bad decisions or disasters away from nature showing you who's boss...
I live in San Francisco a few buildings over from Millenium tower which I passed everyday and grew up in Las Vegas so I just love how most of these projects in part one and two are things I’ve witness first hand. I only stay at Vdara when I go to Vegas and experienced the laser beams on my skin. I remember the Orville dam when it was happening in real time. Also the Harmon hotel I always thought I was having memory issues. I was like wasn’t there a building right here? Where did it go! Also the Fountainbleau is another royal mistake on the strip. Have you covered that yet? I fear in the near future another major failure will be the extension of Caltrain from 4th & King in SF to the Transbay Terminal. I believe it will cost 3 Billion to dig less than a mile underground. SF is so stupid with cost. I’ll see you in part 3. 😅
So truuue that extension on top of the conversion of Caltrain to electric has been costly. We already have seen a delay of the Caltrain reopening from 2022 to 2024. :/
I LOVE the high speed rail project in CA as it's an example of how badly managed the state is. So far $50 Billion pumped into trying to build what was 900+ miles (now about 230 miles) and still no end in sight. And in the meantime the state suffers from power problems, crime problems, water problems, and more. $50 Billion could have gone a long way to improve and eliminate many of the states current problems. But nooooo .. those idiots have to have a useless high speed rail which will have to be subsidized for eternity as it will never make a profit.
Fixing problems or improving anything is not the intent... Everything they do is either for distributing
You know that you can have both social security well managed government and good public transportation
@@pierreblaise9433 You know that saying both and then referring to three things shows the exact mentality of the California politicians leading to this mess? Sorry could not resists.
And yes a well though out process can provide for multiple things. The problem in California is the lack of thought. They are so focused on getting a high speed rail, those sleek 300 mph trains, that they have poured all this money into a project that is achieving NONE of the goals you mentioned. They are not focusing their resources and money on what should be priority as they keep pouring money down the high speed rail hole. At as if someone sat down, wrote out a list of all the problems in the state, decided to prioritize, and then went "ohhh look at the pretty" and moved that to the top of the list ignoring everything else. They've thrown the future of the state under the bus for the potential to have something shiny (and won't even be high speed now once done). They were told it would be WAY more expensive and longer to achieve and they ignored the experts. So now everyone suffers and you do not get "Both".
There is also the most expensive (unfinished) highway in the world that is 32km long and started 51 years ago… in Switzerland between Siders and Brig. Only 10km is finished. As of today, it costs $168M per km. By comparison, the most expensive US highway costed $ 7M per km.
Delays and enormous costs are mostly due to poor management, low-level corruption, and most important, environmentalists.
You can't designate environmentalists as part of the problem. If a project is not ok with those groups then you shoudn't start it until you have an agreement. Same thing if you don't own the land yet. Don't put the blame of the land owners who have always say they will never sell.
@@Kiev-in-3-days Your point makes sense in 2021, but construction started 51 years ago…… Environmental concerns have changed over the years. « Environmental » groups were fine with the project as such in 1970. Later their concerns grew and in the nineties the government agreed on a list of « green actions ». To this date, most of them were not respected. As a cause AND result, the environmentalists keep blocking the construction through legal actions.
Can we blame them ? Probably not, things have changed since the 70s and glad we now care a bit more about the environment.
Are they part of the problem ? Definitely, it’s a fact, blocking the construction costs in time and money. Whether we support their cause or not, I don t think we can deny this fact.
@@Kiev-in-3-days oh and for your information, in Switzerland you can t start a construction unless environmental groups have given their approval (or the court). In 1970 they had ;)
@@ajtoli947 Of course they can. And they did. We can see the great result of not involving them from the beginning.
@@ajtoli947 oh ok. Forgot my other comment I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
I live in Oroville. That shit was insane! Now here we are, 2021 and we've had fires and droughts out the wazoo. I'd rather have the flooding lol
So does my grandma and I stayed there when it was happening but she lives higher so she was safe
I lived there when it was built and have family in the path of the flooding when it failed no "shit' and no "wazoo"
I hope you can swim.
One winter with 1/3 less rain and snow and that's "droughts out the wazoo" to you. You need to turn your TV off. Do you live in Oroville? Did you not notice the lake being drained for the first six months of 2021?
Never let the government manage anything
Unless it is the Communist Party in government. 🤣🤣
The government did not manage the construction of the Tacoma narrows bridge. That work was contracted out to private design and construction contractors, who made the mistakes all on their own.
As bad as all that money loss sounds, I really think Mexico made the right decision to abandon the airport and avoid it being totally useless and costing a WHOLE lot more than what they already spent. Even the smaller airport managing 20 million is better than one that is already starting to sink before a single plane has landed.
I've been screaming for a high speed rail line from San Diego to the Bay Area for over twenty years!!! Come on, man!😡
My mind oh no oh no no no no no great job on the video
I think the first Panama Canal attempt by France is the most expensive decision mistake. Besides the millions lost at that time, it greatly affected the overall French economy back home. And estimates are that 20,000 workers died
Then the US built the canal, gave it to the Panamanian government who promptly sold it to the Chinese.
The Spanish building Mexico City on top of Lake Texcoco by draining it destroyed the balance. Axolotls used to thrive on Lake Texcoco, and now thanks to water pollution and introduction of invasive species, the axolotl is pretty much extinct in the wild. At least the government is taking the steps to acknowledge its mistakes by turning the Texcoco Airport site into an ecological park.
It’s insulting when you say no one was injured during the narrows bridge collapse. The cocker spaniel named tubby lost his life when he was left behind 😭
You should mention the collapse of the terminal building at the Charles De Gaul airport in France due to the effects of heat and cold expansion and contraction
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The Oroville dam is not a Construction Mistake. After construction it operated for 50 years. In fact the video acknowledges, the problem with Oroville dam was it was not maintained properly.
As anyone can tell you. Nothing will last if its not maintained. As you could not get that right I did not bother going past 2 minutes.
He said that exactly
Except the spillway design was given to a newbie engineer and it didn't go down to bedrock.
The
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@@mnassif3809 Cringe.
They really didn’t open the emergency spillway because it just spills when it is overtopped
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They made us lear about the Tacoma Narrows bridge when studying stuctures while i was studying Aerospace engineering.
you should mention how much money could have been saved if the fault/damage was fixed/built correctly when it should have been
Berlin Airport...
We covered that in part 1 😅
Every German big project
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@@xifoscarbonex4653 it’s a really Good excuse for money laundering
the water escaping sideways looked much more natural than the artificial highway
It seems like they should've just kept the natural stone waterways.
@@TeacherElo I think the water made it look like that
@@reese-tr8sq That makes sense. Nature always finds a way.
You could do an ancient world edition - Bent Pyramid (not in cost so much as wasted time; it took that pharaoh's builders 3 tries and I can't remember how many decades to design a pyramid that stayed up),the Antonine Wall, arguably the Great Wall (did it actually work as a defensive wall, or was it overrun soon after being built?), Henry VII's chapel at Eton... trying to think of others.
On a more recent but sobering note, the White Sea Canal was one of those Soviet projects which was presented as a great triumph, but was nearly useless due to the rushed job, yet it claimed thousands of lives.
From what I heard from a friend of mine, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was one of the influences to the creation of the Order of the Engineer and the Engineer's Ring.
Californians would kill for that type of overflow now
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Suggestion for a new topic:
Water waste problem in California i.e. allowing millions of gallons of fresh river water to flow into the sea instead of where it is most needed -farmland and human habitation.
If you are speaking about rivers I’m against…!
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Because...
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You already stopped the Colorado River, you just want to solve a problem with the creation of an other…
I know : People don’t like to change their behavior but it’s the thing to do…
@@aoilpe
What harm is done if rivers are redirected toward human habitation...vs the sea?
Never mind…
Mother Nature is already striking
Third time is the charm for the inferno architect.
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At least the dam failure create a waterfall that quite cool
I love that Top Luxury share information that not many of us that came from Europe and Asia know about such as the first and the last one. I was like lookong for such a content creator but most of them share the same content, and i finally found 1 that explain eith proofs of most of their information. And prolly 2 weeks later i found Top Luxury
How is this supposed to be the most expensive mistakes in the world when all mistakes are from North America
Well if megaprojects in chna fail or are grossly over budget, I don't think we would ever know
It just tells us that the Americans don't have control of the projects. 🤪
@@oOZdemOo Or you could just do a quick google search and see that in Tianjin there is a 600m skyscraper which has essentially been abandoned. This channel is heavily US-centric, that's why the projects are all North American.
@@natjohnstone1689 My man chill, I’m just making fun of the CCCP
@@oOZdemOo fair man - my bad. Had so many people blasting China in general recently (as in the people not just CCCP) I guess I'm on the defensive.
New children's hospital in Dublin was originally budgeted for €400 million. €2.4 BILLION has been spent so far and counting.
Greedy bastards. Money going into the pockets.
Yet another reason why after living in California for 50 plus years, I had finally had enough of their mismanaged government and fled the state.
@Get Viral we moved to North Eastern Tennessee. Love it here.
Thanks for a well done & informative video 👍
People don't come in "amounts", they come in "numbers"
The environmental concerns delayed the California rail a lot. If this was done in the 50’s it would have been completed by now because of that.
The irony that the 50’s is why we’re concerned for the environment. You still have a good point, it’s just that the environmental concern is a good thing, not a bad one.
Use sunlight to dry clothes, that would reduce a lot of CO2, anyone truly concern environment can do that
I am doing that
@@howcanyouknowme Most of the world does that, and it isn’t nearly enough to reduce CO2. It helps, but more needs to be done.
@@howcanyouknowme Lol, that doesn’t work in some climates for about half the year.
My builder almost forgot to glue water pipe under my swimming pool. I checked and discover it myself in the last seconds, or otherwise there would be serious water leak under the pool forever... scary.
P.s. and it surpass my initial budget estimate by about 2 times...seem to be common problem made by everyone in this video too
LA destroying its subway system in the name of big auto was a gigantic mistake, although it was a destruction, not construction mistake.
A lot of cities did that, often led secretly by the auto industry.
Good point Toti. Prior to World War 2 LA had a fine mass transport system. Now you have to take buses to buses between cities. No local train per se. San Diego has its MT which is good for tourists but useless for daily workers or commuters
The oroville dam was nuts. The initial maintenance would have just been 300m, but it became more than twice that cause it was denied lol
Typical crapefornea politicians. Why save money when you can spend it faster....
Nice video
The upside of the Tacoma bridge incident was that because people were so aware of the increasing sway nobody was on it when it finally collapsed.
Sadly he got it a little wrong. A few had driven out. The car that fell into the water had a dog trapped inside. left behind by its owner when they ran.
Oraville dam, total mismanagement by the State. during the dry season they saw cracks in the spillway, but decided to not fix it. that was the cause of the disaster. RECALL NEWSOM!
You think that’s free….? Can’t pull money outta your butt.
@@ruspotter2037 lol. 😂😂
i think that "Le Stade Olympique de Montréal" could be in the top 10 of this list by far. Guess what, we are still paying for this stadium 45 years after the 1976 summer games
I think we finished paying for it a year or two ago. At least this means in men can give birth there now:
“The Montreal Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby,” former Montréal Mayor Jean Drapeau.
It’s been paid off
It finally was paid off a few years back, I believe the total bill was 1.6 billion dollars for that dump. I wish the expos would comeback but the Big Owe is left in everyone's mind when bringing baseball back and funding comes up.
The Teton Dam in east Idaho is one of the biggest blunders in construction. It was a massive earthen dam built in the 70's and took 4 years to complete, costing $48,825,000 ($346,109,678 today). Once complete, they began filling it. It took about 8 months to fill. It then promptly sprung a leak and broke: partly because the emergency spillways weren't complete, and partly because the earth used was porous volcanic soil which, unlike clay, doesn't seal fractures that form in it over time. It flooded the nearby cities of Rexburg and Hibbard and resulted in $322,000,000 ($1,676,839,050 today) of damage.
The Tacoma bridge collapsed because the engineer didn't calculate the natural frequency... And it resonated because of breeze of wind
Your natural frequency is a daily fist in the face.
Don't pretend to know things you don't know and quit using Gwyneth Paltrow jibberish as your way of communicating. 🤡
@@USMCCombatVet4TastyCrayons calm down
the problem with California is that they didn't bring in the Japanese who are experts in the field. I've heard Japan even said they'd help but CA and/or the people running in their infinite wisdom thought they could do better. Having Japans help would have undoubtably helped this project if for nothing else they know what they're doing. And it's truly sad because America needs high speed rails in combination with upgraded infrastructure. Instead, because of CA and the ridiculous price tag of building anything the CA High Speed rail has become a punching bag slamming the idea of high speed rail systems in the US.
Japan wont share their tech. Hahah. Better to work with the Germans. The rails are slower but it is ok.
The irony of a government run and controlled projects
Yes the Shinkansen is awesome but train projects at this price tag for Americans who barely use trains for travel was bound to be a boondoggle. But Californians fell for the bait, MONORAIL! MONORAIL! They could have built a number of highways or augmented urban transit and come out with tons of new toys and results to show for it. Now all they have is a train no will use for tens of billions of dollars. It was liberal train marketing at its finest and it so delicious to see it fail.
@@4149stonepony public transportation is a scary thing in america. It's a waste of money.
Why constructing elevated surfaces over pillars? We in Spain have 3700 km of high-speed rail network, but everything (except bridges crossing rivers or huge valleys) is built on land and nothing is elevated at all. If a road (or even a highway) *must* cross the railway because their paths can ony be perpendicular, it's the road the one which is rebuilt to go under or over at that exact spot, not the other way round! How could cars have priority? Are you crazy? Excuse me if I didn't choose the correct terminology, english is not my first language. Our HSR costs 18 million euros per kilometre, don't know if US costs differ too much.
We need more curved buildings magnifying Sun beams onto solar panels.
unless you decided to build solar panels into a cave, why not just put them on the building instead of need a building to reflect the light?
@@shikniwho7215 Using the building to reflect the light means your get more with less solar panels... the building will still function as a building with windows... while the solar panels will be more efficient. Putting the panels on the building wont really help anything.
@@Joe-cd1jx except that solar modukes are less efficient as they get hot. So you may want a solar collector that uses a working thermal fluid, which I believe are generally less efficient than solar modules
Me renovating my bathroom should be on the list too 🤣
This video is so cool, I liked the train project the most!
I am actually huge supporter of California High Speed Rail. The problem is reducing the length. Key to project is to connect San Francisco to LA. Not doing such, does make it a waste. Completing it, though way over budget will at least make it usable.
Yeah it go’s through places we’re your like y the fuck would u go there like a shit tone of farm land just looks wasteful as hell
You have to look at the future potential of these flyover cities and towns. CA is the 4th of 5th largest economy in the world. It can certainly afford to invest in a high speed rail.
@@truthalonetriumphs6572politicians don't really like high speed rail as well in their eyes cars are cooler than trains
I kinda find I weird that the Tacoma bridge engineers didn’t see any faults in their design…. I mean they literally had 2 perfect examples to to borrow from…
It's not that they didn't see faults, it's that there wasn't sufficient widespread comprehensive understanding of aerodynamic flutter for them to realize how dangerous those faults were.
Also, they were trying to keep the cost of the bridge down by minimizing the amount of steel used, because they were working under budget constraints.
I haven't seen the other videos, but, wondered about the Zimmer Power Plant in Moscow, OH. Purportedly a nuclear plant built to ~90% on the reactor side. Then scrapped with a coal-fired boiler used to provide steam to the steam island. Now the reactor vessel is used as a storage facility.
Zanzibar New Airport - built back to front by mistake, noticed nearly close to completion!
Anything Musk does aside of Tesla and his SpaceX. Literally any of his ideas.
Then go get some knowledge about solarcity,hyperloop.
Just so you know:
The Mexico City airport referendum was not organized by the government but rather by the president’s party and although most of those who voted voted for the cancelation of the airport, less than 3% of the eligible voters actually voted.
Why does nobody vote there?
@@livelyupmyself1 Everybody interested in the news knew it It was a sham and everybody not interested in the news was not informed.
@@livelyupmyself1 We DO vote. Our last midterm elections (which resulted in an humiliating defeat of the presidents party) had 60% turnout. However the referendum was, from its announcement, a lost cause, there was no way the president would’ve broken his campaign promise.
Only his Loyal supporters turned out (to comically organized and scattered placed stations) to confirm what almost everybody knew was going to happen.
PS The president-proposed airport is located 2 hours away from Mexico City center. There’s no infrastructure, no viability studies, and no major airlines want to use it.
The Philippines' Bataan Nuclear Power Plant which was the first in southeast asia but never been used after its completion because of various reasons by the late president Corazon Aquino (the president after former president Ferdinand Marcos who initiated the project.
That's some real shit...
Named Apsara, the reactor was housed in a 100 x 50 x 70 concrete building. India's and Asia's first nuclear reactor, Apsara reached criticality at 3:45 p.m on 4 August 1956 and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Nehru on 20 January 1957.
It helps power many industries here ..go for it..but india was under sanctions for 10yrs for first nuclear test from E.U. and America so its western pressure ur gov..is facing..nothing else...
If phillipines now is kept under sanctions it will destroy ur economy may be that is the reason ur leaders dont want to step in this shit..
The architect of the walkie talkie building did not learned his lesson and still continued to build concave mirrored buildings that heat pools, melts cars and even fried eggs😅
In South Africa we have two Coal power stations, Kusile and Madupe. It was planned to be completed within 5 years, it took more than 10 years. With corruption and poor planning the projects cost was over 500% of the budget and after it is completed the stations are only 50% effective compared to what was planned when it was designed. Now due to these two mega projects failures the country has rolling blackouts, and in dire need of electricity. The cost of construction and loss due to to electricity shortages makes this the biggest failures and most expensive South Africa have ever experience.
Check out Betuweroute in Netherlands. A 4.7 billion railway, it is our most expensive project but also our most painful project that just keeps failing on and on. It is a long story
I think they're trying to keep that fallacy going. That high speed rail is the joke that just keeps on giving.
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@@helpmetoreach1ksubcribers233 What does a vid of some guy bending pencil rod into stirrups, and then setting rebar for a pad have to do with the high speed rail joke.
@@alanrobinson4318 😭
@@helpmetoreach1ksubcribers233 Satire ???