Most Expensive Construction Mistakes in the World (Part 3)
World's Most Expensive Construction Mistakes. In this video, we go over Expensive Construction Mistakes including San Francisco's Millenium Tower, the OIkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, and the Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas. For more megaproject & construction content be sure to subscribe to Top Luxury. Thanks for watching this video: Most Expensive Construction Mistakes in the World
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0:00 World's Most Expensive Construction Mistakes
0:25 Number 6: Liyang Star City
2:03 Number 5: The Millennium Tower
4:22 Number 4: Olkiluoto 3 Nuclear Power Plant
6:56 Number 3: Hallandsås Rail Tunnel
9:05 Number 2: Eastern Span Replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
10:56 Number 1: The Harmon Hotel
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Not sure abt construction…..but “300” countries is a major mistake😅 4:28
Dude you said more than 300 countries use nuclear energy, there is only 196 countries
@@iamraiyan111 196
@@clipscompilations4442 sorry my bad😅
'More than 300 countries around the world use Nuclear power' ~Having 193 countries in the whole world, this is quite impressive
Maybe this KZheadr is broadcasting from an alternate reality, one that has not just 300 countries on earth, but _more_ than 300. Sounds like an interesting place to visit one day. I suspect Bezos will get their before NASA.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 It blew my mind when i heard it..
Makes you wonder what else in this video is misinformation.
I turn on the closed captions and it wrote 30. So I think he reads what he's saying and it's a mistype or misread
nameste🙏, i think he want to say ,around 300 nuclear power plant in the whole world
4:26 ‘More than 300 countries around the world use nuclear power’ the 196 countries: cool fact bro
There are 195 countries
@@mr.shadow3009 197
193
2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.
@@rajanmanhas1074 There IS NO 'country' of palestine ... if you insist there is, then WHICH countries BORDER 'it' ? Unless .... you are one THOSE against Israel, possibly ...........
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Fun Fact : Biggest mistake in the world is when the world estimated the number of countries to be 300 but it actually is 196...
iPhone XS Wallpaper as a pfp, quite a unique choice.
195 (197) countries... And he meant that 30 use nuclear power. 300 was a little too much :P
215 if you don't consider politics....That's according to the UN. There are countries not recognised by the West and vice versa.
189
@@solmoman 195 (197)
" *About 300 countries around the world* " Guys he's off-script
I was confused by that too, where is he getting that number from???
@@shark3744 too much construction mistakes 😂
He said more than 300 countries around the world 😂
I guess he included non-existent continents' countries😂
Comes from him reading the script live without pretending and not thinking about what he just read.
"It's estimated to cost 7 billion dollars, 7 times more than the original bid of 1 billion dollars." I'm glad you did the math for me on that one, thanks.
I was about to open the calculator app.
@@DrDman14 it's sarcasm lmao
Gotta fill out time to get them ad rolls
It's still a truly ridiculous statement. Sarcasm or not. Sometimes I wonder if anyone edits these videos before they open their mouth.
Y’all are all haters, let the man make his successful vids and stop wasting your time in his comments if you don’t like his videos. There’s other creators
The San Francisco Bay Bridge story mentioned the city government and showed an image of the US Capitol building in Washington DC. Also, as mentioned previously, I'm surprised to learn that there are at least 300 countries in the world - so many new places to visit after the pandemic!
your right but its given 30 in the subtitles meaby he made an error
I live in sf and it took YEARS for the old bay bridge to be fully dismantled
cheap video we know better all he do is show up the cheapness of his video and makes a fool of himself
The Oakland/San Francisco bridge mentioned had an image of the collapsed freeway in Oakland which had nothing to do with the old bridge now demolished, or relative to the new bridge replacement. The freeway collapsed during the 1989 earthquake that caused a segment of the Oakland/San Francisco bridge to fail.
"More than 300 countries in the world use nuclear power" Lmao
Nuclear is a bug scary word isn't it
Considering there are only 195 countries its an odd thing to say...
I noticed that too. I was like da fuk????
Exactly
Doesn't really sound like Biden but maybe it's a relative to Biden narrating this video.
The best piece of information is at 4:25 that there are “around 300 countries in the world that use nuclear power to meet demand”. This guy is a true visionary.
LMAO i thought I hears that wrong. He probably meant cities or an issue with the script XD
Если включить субтитры то там написано 30
Makes you wonder what else in the commentary is bullshit
@@tyrellcobb4665 yup, I also find the commentary a bit tinged with sensationalism and exaggerations. There are many other channel that are more authoritative like B1M.
They just read the script.. they dont know shit
Amazing demolition, awesome video!
Love your channel mate. I'm not long a subscriber but I know I am going to love your channel...
The new Berlin airport should have been on this list.
It was on the first list
First Thing me as a german thought about upon reading the title
All of Germany should.
@@Nym146 Which one
@@acat3772 There is only one Germany and it was a mistake all along lol
My parents always said I was a mega project that didn't turned out as planned.
They were right
All my parents needed was time 😁
@@sloppyseconds6113 shut up
@@ashaneperera1474 no u
Pulling out doesn't work!
It's videos like this that make me feel better. There are times when I do something dumb, like measuring a wall and I don't take into account an electrical outlet. But after watching this... damn!!! It really puts things into perspective.
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Cool to see the Hallandsås tunnel here! I live in the eponymous county of Halland and this project made top stories on the news for decades! They started digging and boring when I was 16. I had turned 39 by the time I finally got the chance to travel by train through the tunnel for the first time on its opening day.
That's nothing compared to the Second Avenue Subway (Stubway?) in NYC...which finally partially opened decades after it promised. Its ridership was already accounted for as it relieved what had been an overcrowded subway line nearby.
Original problem with the Hallandsås railway tunnel in Sweden was that the politicians in charge hade decided the location of the tunnel and started to redeem land long time before the geological survey was done. The first Geologist warned for the bad bedrock and recommended the tunnel to be built a some kilometers to the east, where the bedrock was more solid. He got kicked out of the project and and a "puppet" geologist was hired instead that approved the original location. The rest is history
That outcome is guaranteed whenever politicians make technical decisions.
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"Say this is a good idea, or say We are right. Anything else and you're gone." Mmmn, politics~
A "politician" should stay with politics and not anything they don't have the experience to do. It's so anoying when they have to push shit through and everyone knows it's a bad idea and then it goes to hell but it dosnt matter its tax money right? Haha
@@eirik874 The big problem is that they're not smart enough to know when lobbyists are lying to them...and they're too arrogant to admit that they don't know anything.
4:26, more than 300 countries hey? I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many in total let alone ones that use nuclear power.
Everyone makes mistakes brother
he forgot his script
Its 30 actually😂
@@kraftmayo This channel more than others
Sorry, we mean 30 countries 😅
Heres a construction fail that happened in my city (adelaide, australia), the New Royal Adelaide Hospital, construction began in 2011, then it was estimated to be a $2 billion project, this was going to be the most expensive building ever constructed in Australia and the largest hospital in the country. Im not sure when they originally planned to have it completed, but i know it was delayed a while, finished in 2016, but when it 'finished', it just sat there unused for about 18 months due to the issues inside. Also 2 workers died during construction, and they went $500 million over budget (i think this deal worked such that the building companies paid for all of it out of pocket, and they owned it, and once it was done and up to standard, the governemnt would lease it from them. So when it was built but no up to standard, the gov just said they dont want it until its ready, i know this cuz my dads in that industry). Once it did open, it was just plagued with problems, to start with it was more of a hotel than a hospital, theres no wards, each patient gets their own room with their own ensuite bathroom, and these were fairly spacious, so the capacity of the hospital was much lower than it could have been. But to go with this there were no lounges for patients (idk much about hospitals), so apparently healthy patients couldnt discharge themselves, they had to wait for a nurse to come to them, do the paperwork with them in their room before they could leave. Compounded with there being no lounge for incoming patients, this meant the hospital filled up fast and you had ambulances stacked out side because there was no space inside the hospital for them to leave their patients. The hallways were too slim, so you could only wheel one patient through at a time, if there was someone coming the other way, one of you would have to maneuver into a room to let the other pass, its just so stupid. Apparently there were times when the lights would go out during operations due to a software issue. This is just a snapshot of the problems, theyve already build another (smaller) hospital to account for this, and more are planned, though none are of the scale of this one.
Ahh yes, the software for the lights....
China wouldn't happen to be a shareholder in the developer, by any chance...? 😂
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Thanks for the video.
My wife is planning a kitchen remodel. It should be stiff competition for everything in this video.
This comment 🤣
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@@algrayson8965 damn, who hurt you?😂😂
@@skeetskeet9371 His mother. Made him despise women.
Haha... Epic comment 😂
Top Luxury mentions mistakes throughout this series. However, Top Luxury should pay more attention to fact checking it’s information and proof read the subtitles.
well what do you expect of a channel with a silly name like "Top Luxury" rather than something about engineering, I'm just glad they know to spell honestly
@talamioros LOL!
Obvious low-effort KZhead advertising fund grab is obvious.
Big fan of your videos. Very cool.
Seriously interesting, & wow the blowing up skills & keeping them in center , wow nice job people's ! 👏
KZheadrs intentionally put in mistakes in their videos so wise guys like you will habitually correct them in the comments. Thus driving up the popularity and viewership of the video. Well done Top Lux. Works like a charm.
I also do this 😂
I just came to see things fall down.
The Swedish hospital Karolinska should also be on this list. Total cost so far: 2 billion Euros, cost for changing one door: 120 000 Euro. The 17 most expensive building in the world.
Can we talk about his pronunciation of Kronor?!?
If it contains trim Swedish nurses then we must make exceptions😜
@@louisrafaelcom 1,2 miljon kronor or 120 000 euros
@@louisrafaelcom What about it? His pronunciation of kronor is very good.
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Vote up, nice video clip, thanks for sharing it :)
Love these videos
Shoddy work. Numerous mistakes. One: A picture of the state capitol building of Utah described as the city hall of San Francisco.
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They also highlight the western span of the bay bridge when talking about the eastern span at 9:14, and follow that with two shots of the western span. Then, starting at 10:10 they show the old eastern span being dismantled (with the completed new span in the background) as they talk about problems building the new span. Edit: at 10:24 they did finish with a shot of the new span being constructed with the old span still in use in the foreground.
Not to mention the city of San Francisco had ZERO financial responsibility for the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge. That was a CalTrans debacle.
@@btphelps Not to mention that Interstate 80 goes over the bridge, which is a Federal highway. Attacking and smearing the City of San Francisco local government over a Federal funded project, constructed by the California state government agency, is a particularly telling propaganda technique. And saying the replacement of the old crappy structure was due to earthquake concerns, instead of primarily durability and traffic concerns shows that whoever produced this video doesn't know what they are talking about... Just More internet nonsense.
And they showed collapsed sections of the freeway that were damaged in the same earthquake but are completely separate from the bridge. From the introductory images at the start of the video I thought they would be two separate stories in the list (i.e. one being the Bridge replacement and the other beint the double decker Cypress structure in Oakland and Embarcadero freeways in SF.)
The Honolulu rail project would be a great one to add to your list. It started out on the west side of Oahu instead of where tourists are in Waikiki and has been plagued with issues. So far it’s about 10 years behind schedule and multiple Billion over budget.
Why the west side? There's nothing there except locals and some beaches.
I agree. The project has been going so long, the wheels on the trains are rusting.
That one condo building also, the one that has that hanging glass feature in Kakaako also applies. Howard Hughes we don't need a condo tower with a fancy feature like that. Actually most of the new construction in that area including the condos on Ala Moana shopping center applies too. Since most of the units aren't even being sold to residents. I would have rather preferred they repair that parking lot section. They knocked down a big landmark (ward warehouse) near that tower in question. Yup the town side developers have something to do with the rail because they're the ones that want it built through town to reach the area with the condo towers.
He did add this to a list already
lol I dont know why we suck at building infrastructure. I bet you the chinese can do it in 6 month
You forgot about German airport "Ber" whose costs were 3 times or more than initially expected and the whole build phase took over 12 or 14 years longer than expected to be completed, finding issues within every single installed component lol
Nice video.
Well, I started landscaping my yard this Spring. It's now October and my cost over run is out of sight!
Poor project management, I see, Well, time to demolish your yard then. I deem it unsafe lol.
4:26 "More than 300 countries around the world use nuclear power" Yeah believable
look at the captions, he misread the script.
As a Californian I can confidently say that we are one of the most incapable states in our country when it comes to construction projects. Which is surprising considering we have such a large influx of people from all over the world.
This is a certified Hyperloop Moment
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It doesn't matter who's doing the work... who have you got at the helm???
@@drummingspain207 People focused on parties and jabbing at the political right it would seem.
@@idofx8722 For California though they have been like a blue state for decades idk why politics would even get brought into this lol
Fantastic videos and great voice over. Ignore negative or sarcastic comments
"More than 300 countries around the world..." - What definition of "countries" are we using, here? By most definitions, there are fewer than 200 countries.
I think he meant 300 nuclear plants around the world or 30 countries with nuclear power plants around the world.
No. There are 195 members of UN. And 205 members of FIFA. And there's also West Sahara which is a member of neither.
Including the tiny ones...Basque, Monaco, Brittany...
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Alien 1: We found an intelligent species. Alien 2: Their construction skills seem to be quite good. Alien 1: Yes but they only build them so they can blow them up afterwards.
Because explosions are fun.
2:03 i love how instead of fixing it, they're all like "IM GOING TO SUE YOU!" "NO IT'S THEIR FAULT I SWEAR"
other major construction failure is when my parents build my life from ground up but I still didn't get the job to repay them.
you shouldn't have to repay them ish if you don't want to 💀 they brought you into the world because they wanted a human pet and they should take responsibility of the life they brought into existence, not until a government tells them to, but until they can. and then you can give back if you want, but really nor you nor no one should be forced to repay anything. pretty sure no one chose to be brought into this world and become a monetary burden on their parents for liket the 18 years society tells them they should care about their kids.
4:29! 😂 The quote "More than 300 countries use nuclear power..." Made my day 😁
It’s not a construction failure if there isn’t a problem with the execution. A planning, funding, design, or change in demand, isn’t really construction failure
Agreed.
These are construction projects, they're not an iPad, a piece of software or a Beyonce concert. That's in that sense we mean "construction" mistakes, it's the projects.
All part of construction in the sense of real estate.
Agreed.
3 of these are literally construction failures
You should include Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines Construction Cost : $US 2.3 billion Issues: 1. Plant revealed over 4,000 defects. 2. Was built near a major geological fault line. 3. Close to Volcanic Mount Pinatubo.
Not sure how this came into my KZhead suggestions but damn, really interesting.
Kingdom Tower Jeddah Tower is going to become most expensive construction mistake
We covered that project in Part 1 of this series: kzhead.info/sun/irp8f72Nj52bfp8/bejne.html
In the mid 20th Century, fast growing trees were discovered in Brazil. Since there are few major roads in the rain forest, a giant floating paper mill was built. By the time, the massive structure was floating up river, it was further discovered the trees lacked the fiber needed to make paper. For decades the iron hulk is rusting away.
What’s it called?
very late, but how do trees not have fibre?
They way you pronounced olkiluoto was perfect!
4:26 More than 300 countries use nuclear power. That's pretty damn impressive, considering there are 195 countries in the world (give or take a few, depending on who you ask)!
your right but its given 30 in the subtitles meaby he made an error
I love the idea that in videos that celebrate great human achievements, there are always people advocating for their own country while in videos that look at the complete f**k ups that have occurred, people also clamour, "what about this from my country." You gotta be the best, even if it's at being the worst.
Yep, it's called entitlement billy
I think its more like they want their country to be mentioned. A sense of pride they may feel even of its bad piblicity.
Well, I can cite 2 in Brazil: the Angra 3 nuclear power station has gobbled money for decades without ever being completed, and the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, it generates only a fraction of it's nominal power because of fluctuations in river flow and the lack of a proper reservoir for the dam. Those 2 can make almost any other project of this list look cheap in comparison when you look at the money already invested in those.
Both bilions constructions
Angra 3 costs are 0,75 billion, Olkiluoto 3 is 5,5-8,5 billion
A hydroplant generating only a fraction of it's nominal power is normal. That happens with pretty much any renewable energy that relies on natural forces for energy production instead of controlled input of fuels... While yes, Belo monte average production of 40% is below the national average of 55% for hydroplants, it's not nearly the lowest in the world, and having huge revervoirs to keep capacity close to 100% all year round is not always viable and can have huge enviromental consequences...
And we are talking about constructions that cost billions, and that just scratch the surface off the ocean. If we join all the small millionaires constructions, maybe we make billions and billions in money.
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"...weren't ready for the exacting standards for building a nuclear reactor." Wow.
At about 9:10 images of the Cypress section of the freeway passing through Northern Oakland are passed off as images of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge. The total visible damage to the bridge is the one 50-foot section of the upper deck that fell onto the lower deck shown shortly afterward. And, yes, according to all the news reports the cantilever span between Yerba Buena (a.k.a. Treasure) Island and Oakland were deemed unstable, being built on sand instead of bedrock. The broken span was fixed and used for years until a new span could be designed and built to replace it.
The sloppiest demolition ever , some of those buildings came down sideways , lol
I think the Chinese intended to drop them like that but it looked like one “hung up” and didn’t completely fall. Their are no real attorneys in China so we all can relax. ….. right?
@@slopedouche5460 Yes. Where life is cheap.
Was thinking the same thing, looked like a toddler knocking over a lego tower. That or Jenga.
@@Bsquaredplus2 Lol Definitely looked like Jenga , yes .
They couldnt afford enough explosives after bribing the government officials.
The Big Dig? Interstate rerouting in Boston, Mass. I remember it being way over budget. There was even a death to a car driver when a panel fell.
Yep, the two I was thinking of were the Big Dig and California's high speed train to nowhere.
@@JeffDeWitt Yes. Most, if not, all high speed rail goes way over budget.
"Number 3 Hallan Sauce" xD But yes, that tunnel seemed like it would never get done. and i feel like that building at the end can be used for one of those "Do you ever feel useless, remember that..." lines.
Your videos ara amazing! The content is just so elaborated and the narrative is so well thought. Keep it up! Cheers from Colombia
The Bay Bridge in SF was a big mistake but gotta say it's pretty beautiful.
It wasn't really a mistake, it was just mismanaged. The end result is pretty good. That said it's pretty misrepresented here, yes the initial cost was 1b, but that was over a decade prior. The cost was destined to go up by the time it was constructed.
It's stunning the view coming into SF is awesome.
@@fredothechimp while beautiful, the condition of the road surface on the bridge is poor. Guess it’s hard to do maintenance with the sheer volume of traffic going across it daily
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I'm somewhat glad to see no projects from my country are on there considering our governments inability to cost a project!
I know what you mean. You watch the video to be amazed at the stupidity of people while also hoping that the next project is not from your country (because you're well aware of the crap that your country has been involved in). BTW UK talking.
I've found that even the private sector can't price things correctly. In my country, 2 projects worth $30b each ended up being almost $10b over budget. In each case because of poor descisions made by management. Sadly, yes men who say everything will be fine get promoted as "dynamic" and people who try to get things done right are called "negative", even though they will make more money in the end.
Yes, I'm surprised that 3 current Hydro projects in my country (Canada) didn't make the list. They are all many billions over budget (and behind schedule) and will result in electricity that is much more expensive than the current markets.
@@alexkilgour1328 Canada doesn't have billions of dollars, what a terrible waste
@@sloppyseconds6113 well, I'd rather they not waste tax money, but exactly what is it that you think happens in Canada? We are a G8 nation, with a pretty strong economy. Ya, our budgets are in the billions.
as a civil engineer, seeing number 6 getting demolished like that broke my heart, all that hard work gone to waste
Well maybe China shouldn't have destroyed ancient villages and displaced people for these big constructions. China's "I have a big truck" to compensate for something else. I think that was a bigger loss than these buildings any day. Usually urbanists have to fight to urbanize as their needs outpace the establishment however this is the first I have seen an over development only China.
@@milliedragon4418 they destoryed ancient villages? when did that happen? in the ancient time?
What a coincidence...there's a Millenium Tower in Vienna. And it also sinks a couple of CM because it's build close to the Danube River.
4:26 somebody’s going to have to explain, there’s 196 countries (depending on who’s counting), nowhere near 300.
30 countries us nuclear power he just added a extra 0
04:27 more than *300 countries* around the world?! In which planet?
Earth and marz
My planet, has more land mass, a tiny bit bigger than Earth. Same gravity.
As a german, I´m not very proud if it comes to german mega projects: The concert hall "Elb-Philharmonie" in Hamburg took 9 years to build, was an estimated 241million but ended up to cost 866 million €uro. The new Airport "BER" in Berlin took stunning 14 years to build and ended up costing 5,9 instead of 1,9 billion €uros. The "conversion" of the central station in Stuttgart, called "Stuttgart 21", was initially planned to cost 2,5 billion €uros is still under construction and now has an estimated price tag of 9,15 billion €uros. That makes me really angry, because most of the cost explosion was due to politicians meddling with the construction.
When you said kronor it made my day some how
The video highlighted the western span of the SF/Oakland bay bridge on the map. The video showed earthquake damage to the western span, and the Cypress viaduct in Oakland. They retrofit the western span--replacing all the riveted girders with box beams.
Exactly. The video should clarify that the repair of the bridge wasn't considered too expensive, as the bridge was repaired and re-opened a month after Loma Prieta. It was the retrofit that was considered too expensive, and thus plans to replace the Eastern span moved forward.
Yeah all that talk with the video that was shown is very misleading. Also it wasn't the city (not sure which city, San Francisco?) who's problem was replacing the bridge, that was a a California project. Unfortunately politicians who's eyes were bigger than their wallets decided the eastern span should be a symbol (which usually translates to overly expensive) instead of doing a simple (and MUCH cheaper) causeway type design similar to the San Mateo bridge. It still had lots of cost overruns, but something tells me a simple concrete deck cause way would have been more than sufficient with not much of an overrun.
@@Mike__B Of course it became part of the GS Warriors logo, so there's that.
@@travisfinucane Oh damn didn't even realize that.
@@Mike__B That was the CalTrans proposal, but it's the Oakland side so what got built is what the Oakland City Council wanted...
I love this series!
Berlin Airport is also a very interesting topic..;)
I'm from Finland and I would have told you about Olkiluoto, but it was already there... :D
I just want to say how amazing it is that over 300 countries use nuclear power. That fact is even more amazing since there are only 195 countries on Earth.
Haha
Clean energy seems to have come a long way. A few years ago only 15% of countries had nuclear power, now that number is 150%
All South African mega projects would definitely make this list. All of them.
Impressive
Thermal power plant Šoštanj (Slovenia) Estimated construction cost in 2006, 440 000 0000 euros, final construction costs 1.412.655.460 euros. In the best scenario investments spent on the construction of Teša 6 will be repaid in 23 years, not in 16 years, as envisaged in the plan.
I would almost subscribe to this channel if it were not named “Top Luxury”
yeah, same
The thing with nuclear power plants, at least here in Europe, is that everyone said they wanted to move away from nuclear energy. Although it's meant to be a reduction over a long time, there's a major side effect: nobody in those countries will want to specialize in this field, so after only a few years, there's a critical lack of engineers, not just in case you want to build new stuff, but for maintenance and repairs. And there's quiet a few nuclear power plants that are in poor condition already.
All I've learned is that proper planning, open communication, and never cutting corners is key to building crazy structures.
You forgot competent workers and professional engineers.
When you're talking about the problems with construction of the Eastern Span, all your video clips are of them taking down the OLD span, not building the new span.
@Kim Jorgensen Yes I know. That to me was less obviously misleading, because I didn't think anyone would mistake it for the bridge.
Also it was the Eastern span that had the collapse during the earthquake, yet when he introduces it he says it was the Western span and shows photos, map, and statistics of the Western span.
Yes as a Brit I am totally confused by the SF bridge segment, I will have to google what bridge is actually standing in SF now to understand better.
@@chatteyj Oh, well, it's not actually complicated; I can explain it. There is an island in the middle of the Bay, Yerba Buena Island. The bridge goes through that island. So there's the western span that goes from the island into the city, and the eastern span that goes from the island into Oakland. The western span is two huge suspension bridges connected together in the middle. The eastern span used to be a simple ugly box girder bridge. That's the part that fell down during the earthquake. That's the part they finally replaced
More of these videos please
300 countries!?! Can I trust this channel?
In my fictional world, all projects in this video already finished and successful
The Site C dam in British Columbia, Canada, was estimated to cost 8.3 billion. So far, it's cost 16 billion and still isn't close to being finished. Only about double the estimate, but so far more expensive than anything in this video. But that's what happens when you try to build a dam on soft soil that isn't suited to keeping a dam in place.
That money could have been used to build much more worthwhile structures and infrastructure instead of wasted like that.
They just keep throwing good money after bad. None of the politicians involved from either party is willing to say it was a mistake and cut their (our) losses.
Muskrat Falls, Labrador. Estimated $6 B then increased to $8B. Already well over $13B & still not operating due to software concerns.
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They sure know how to screw Canadians both west coast and east coast
I´m missing BER Airport Germany in this list.
There’s an abandon project of several buildings in Panajachel, Guatemala. Well, it’s been many years since the last time I was there. I even went to the top of those (very tall) and took pictures in the 1990’s. I have no idea if they were completed after many years, but that’s all I remember.
This made me realize I’ve been laughing at the wrong skyscraper. My parents point out millennium tower every time we drive past it on the highway and since I’ve never seen a picture of it before I didn’t know what it actually looks like until this video. (I thought it was the one next to it, but no they are very visually different ) lol.
MGM spent $450 million for absolutely nothing, That sums up Las Vegas!
despite the economic crisis i still think this is a right time to start up an investment
Stocks are good but crypto is more profitable
Most intelligent words I've heard.
Crypto is the new gold
I wanted to trade Crypto but got discouraged by the fluctuations in price
That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Mr Brian Walter
The Olkiluoto 3 powerplant mentioned here, was finally finished and started working in late 2021.
At 4:28, when you said, there are more than 300 countries use nuclear power. Up until that point, I was only aware of 197 countries . Thanks for sharing this out of the world information with me.
There's a high school in my home town that was built backwards, meaning the entrance was supposed to face a busy street but instead faces a side street. Although it wasn't as expensive as some of those featured in the video, the engineer in charge of the project took this failure to heart and committed suicide because of it.
Yeah, my neighbor told her contractor that the garage was supposed to be on the RH side not the left. Compromise got her a landscaped backyard.
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Did the contractor too- take his own life?
"Most Corrupted Construction Mistakes" I fixed the title for you.
Kudos to Harmon for dismantling the building,other companies won't even bother to look into the matter.
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4:20 Everybody wanted Nuclear power gone after Fukushima, but these days nuclear power is a very efficient source that saves on CO2 pollution. Sadly according to that project, nobody knows how to build a nuclear powerplant anymore...
Honestly we really need to standardise a lot more, it’d basically fix all issues for nuclear reactors
I mean nuclear power have gotten subsidies for decades and they still are hella expensive and also take way too long to build. It's money that held back nuclear power, not environmentalism. I mean China also has issues with the same nuclear power plant technology Olkiluoto uses and I need not remind you that China is not known for stellar environmentalism or construction safety to explain for the cost of nuclear plants. Also MSR and thorium are not even viable at this time.
"An earthquake in 1989 drew attention to it's faults" I see what you did there.
You should check the interstate upgrade & repair in downtown Chicago. The project was suppose to take one and a half years. It's now in the fourth year of continuing year round construction and it's hoped to be finished in the Summer of 2022. The cost overrun is almost double the almost $1b estimate. Cost is now estimated at $ 3b but no one knows for sure. They aren't talking.
You tried to play me a 52-MINUTE ad at the halfway mark! 😆
Imagine living in a nearby building and missing the memo about the demolition then suddenly half your city explodes.
Sounds like 911!
@@danielhickmott5800 none of the planes, all of the fun
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i'm dying bro, he said that more than 300 countries around he world use nuclear power but if i am not mistaken there are only around 195 countries in the world so where in the world did he get the additional 105 countries hahaha!!!
The segment on the Oakland Bay Bridge was so filled with misinformation (the visual of the collapsed freeway was about 3 miles away from the bridge) that I lost faith in the rest of the video.