Construction Fails: When Projects Go Wrong
From Saudi Arabia's half-built megatall to New York's leaning skyscraper, this is what happens when some of the world's biggest construction projects go wrong. For more by The B1M subscribe now - bit.ly/the-b1m
0:00 - Intro
00:31 - Millennium Tower
09:03 - China's Ghostscraper
16:44 - Jeddah Tower
32:05 - Texas Harbor Bridge
40:59 - One Seaport
51:51 - California High Speed Rail
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Enjoy!! 🙌
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@@tomallen9791 He knows it. Why do you think he has over 3 million followers? Not everybody watches for the architectural goodies that are shown. But aging has kicked in and skipping the gym. So it goes..
Stupid.jeeeeews.
There’s other videos from the engineers on the millennium tower which they say the real problem was that it was originally designed to be a steel frame tower and after the foundations were laid they switched to concrete because steel was too expensive. So the foundation isn’t designed for the weight of the structure and the foundation slab is actually dishing under the weight. They said the building will eventually fail but everyone in power is pointing the blame at everyone else and nobody is taking responsibility when it should be torn down.
What's this video? It sounds interesting.
That’s just Disgusting! The most important part of a Building is the Foundation! They could be saved cost on the Building itself!
@@Iceyfire12 How cute of you (just a joke) to think that they didn't already cut cost for the building itself too!
The steel was too expensive for the billionaire builders, the fix was too expensive for the builders...
@@Iceyfire12 No, the most important part of a building is the profit. The foundations are other buildings issues.
I feel like a building should only receive a structural award after it's been up for at least 20 years without any integrity failures 🙄
1 hour of B1M on a sunday! It´s like finding money in your pockets
If we could buy stuff with B1M... :D :D
theyre just reuploads lol
It's Saturday you weirdo
Can we just appreciate that Ron Hamburger resisted the urge and didn't end up working for McDonalds?
He'd have f(kd that up too.
I hear you but there is absolutely no way a person with the last name Hamburger would have Ronald as a 1st name.
What do you mean? Ronald IS his first name.@@hilarity123
Ronald McDonald aka Ron Hamburger *sighs* was a joke.@@Klutech
McDonalds will become disastrous by then
Another worthy project for this list would be "The Harmon" built as a part of the multiple billion dollar City Center project in Las Vegas alongside the Aria, Waldorf Astoria and the Veer Towers. The Harmon was famously labeled the worlds most expensive billboard. The building was supposed to be 49 floors, until it was realized that faulty rebar and other construction work had gone unnoticed by inspectors and affected nearly 15 floors of the structure. So the building was topped off at 28 floors, and since it was 2009, right in the middle of the great recession and the vegas housing market was tanking, MGM decided to cut their losses and just abandoned the project. the building sat as an abandoned shell, and quickly caught the attention of advertisers who wasted no time plastering the shell with ads. it sat for 6 long years as evidence in a series lawsuits until it was finally demolished in 2015
That Simscale plug was quite possibly the smoothest, most legitimately relevant sponsor integration ever. Just another reason I love the B1M.
I watched that one through entirely and it felt like just another part of the segment, but Fred, you have to get rid of those art plugs. Not only is that a horrible investment strategy itself, but the synergy between your content and that offering is so juxtaposed that I can’t even see the benefit of having it as a sponsor.
Millenium Tower, back in June, the troubled tower became fully supported on the north and west sides by a total of 18 piles sunk into bedrock as part of the building's retrofit project. Monitoring data confirms the fix has successfully prevented further sinking.7 Sept 2023
A whole hour of Fred Mills?!!! And on a Sunday! I'm down for that! ❤❤
It's Saturday you weirdo
I am not an engineer, but it seems negligent to me that a tall, heavy sky scraper was not anchored to the bedrock to begin with.
Even you anchor it, foundation designed to carry the loads its either under or over design it will fail. Engineering is precise, no less no more. There are many factors to considered like windload, earthquake load and etc.
Plenty of skyscrapers around the world aren’t on bedrock.
There are many places where the bedrock is just too far away. For that matter, most buildings do not touch the bedrock. "A building does not so much sit on the ground as float in it."
Most are held by the surface friction of the piles along thier length not being supported from the bottom
@@honeyyu1474Earthquake code only applies to areas where that is a factor but the issue isn't the foundation its the change of the material make up of the building itself which the existing foundation was never designed to hold .I'd love to know who took the decision to go ahead with the new building without changing the foundation first .
It's just a bunch of old videos strung together, but it's still enjoyable.
Damn, hour long B1M video. Guess homework will have to wait
Haha, sorry!! You can blame it on us 😂
I remember being a child and going over the previous Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi. I was watching out the car window and we just kept going up and up and up. I was scared to death!
Great compilation! An update on how things are going now for these projects would be appreciated, though.
I lot of people have gotten rich off the California High Speed Train. Going from 10 Billion to 100 Billion is one of the greatest bait and switches in history.
Great to see longer videos coming out! Thank you ❤️
I was wondering when you were going to get to the Millennium Tower. I can attest to the bucking sidewalks, plumbing hook stories in our local news, and of course, the hilarious finger pointing shootouts between the city, developer, architects, engineers and, um, can I say unhappy condo buyers? Non-stop entertainment.
And the complicit inspectors who allowed the developer to not go all the way to the bedrock for support. ugh...
I love finger gun battles.
Construction on Jeddah Tower is being restarted. The developer is currently letting contractors bid on the contract to complete the tower. Deadline for the bids is the end of 2023. This was announced in September. (Source: MEED - Middle East Business Intelligence)
No better way to spend an entire hour than watching a surprise long-form B1M documentary 😀(my final exam is in 2 days, study will have to wait)
Good morning Fred, and thank you for an hour of B1M today! This was a much better way of enjoying my morning coffee. Cheers!
How come Hyperloop isn't in this list? It'll never become a reality and all associated companies have folded their projects.
We have to take a minute and remember Ron Hamburger. He didn't die, but his career definitely did.
Oh, Honey! Make more of these! This dropped perfectly on my no-obligations Sunday 🍿
I’ve wondered all my life how this doesn’t happen more regularly. And I always wonder what will happen as all of theses buildings age
Patch & repair. Tennants pay 😔
Especially in NYC
im a dockbuilder which is the union that does foundation work and drilling ....its sad to see cost cutting affect big buildings like this ...a foundation for a skyscraper should if anything be way over built beyond spec its the most important part the foundation
21:00 of course it works… hexagons are the bestagons!
I have an irrational hatred of seeing supertall structures in empty areas. Skyscrapers really should only exist when space is scarce.
they are in the monument-building stage of their cultural evolution. It's a sort of ego problem
Even in scarce land skyscrapers r not needed, not welcome...only benefits the tiniest portion of population,that is its owner. Its the races between those billionaire to come up with highest (or some super features) as the brags right amongst themselves while us the ordinary joe pretends to keeps up with the Joneses -paids all the bills/cost. Worst, once its becomes building with fault, the residents will bear mostt of its burden. Whats kind of weird world we living now, and sheeple keeps talking abt justice, rights and fairness. Is there still anything as such?
You know its a good day when B1M uploads
1:18 I get that the elevators would no longer work.. but the plumbing part caught me off guard
Why won't plumbing work?
Imagine you have all these utilities, high pressure water in, sewage out, electrical conduit, etc. and the whole tower's side starts shifting relative to the ground next to it. Now, as said in the video, some vertical motion (settlement) is expected, so the joints have some give, the flexy-couplers have some length to go, but if you start doubling and tripling the settlement that was anticipated, and the problems will start to spring up like mushrooms after a storm. Not just water and utilities, but cracks, water infiltration, window damage, doors not opening, and eventually damaged rebar and possibly failing retaining walls and in the worst case, failing columns and even partial, or in some freak accident of mega proportions, total collapse.
Plumbing drainage lines require a certain slope to drain property, usually a 1/4" per foot. As the building leans alot of these lines will start leveling out causing sewer to start back flowing to floor drains and toilets, also sinks will no longer drain. At that point the building is uninhabitable.
Construction by far had to be the most corrupted field in many industries compared. I somehow amazed we r not seeing more towers, skyscrapers tumbling down like dominos. Not saying im look forward to that , too many innocent lives perish yet not all the responsible person's head rolls. Not fair... Since most buildings generally expected to last half century easily, im worried we going to witness those unfortunate events soon. But, by then, most that involved and responsible to commit such mistakes to max the profits, are long gone. Just left the residents to deal with huge losses (materially or lost of lives) and the ppl in general (due to tax increased by govmt to cover the losses), and the only thing to avoids this, is to avoid those as residential or business property. Take away the feeling of nonsenses prides saying that u r almost there successful to owns a small parts of the building (which will never be yours due to one sided mortgage, leasing t&c and all)
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Where is the love for how hype that intro sequence was?!!
When I was quite a bit younger, I was told one of my legs was shorter than the other. That doesn't mean I want to live in a leaning building.
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Thanks B1M and Simscale, that’s the best hour I’ve spent in work in a long time 👍🏼
wtf are you talking about
@@Tom-sj3vn doughnuts
You should do a video on the Oceanwide plaza in downtown Los Angeles. It started but was haulted due to lawsuits and has been sitting incomplete for years now.
Popcorn? At this time of day!? Perfect doughnut and coffee video though
47:15 the very first moment this man appeared on screen, my respect for him became higher than for anyone else. I mean, look at that style!
Always happy to see a B1M video in my video feed!! Such great content, with a very high production level. Keep up the great work!
Regarding the lack of America having a high speed rail network: I've never actually even thought of that at all!🤔 I mean, high speed rail links are fairly common on this side of the pond (I'm talking about everywhere Eastwards, not exclusively the UK). But yeah, never crossed my mind that the US doesn't have something similar... 🤔 Plus, the state of a lot of the US rail track isn't exactly uniform, that I know from watching documentaries on here! 😐 But there must be so much track considering that it spans the US in all directions, and there's lots of privately owned track still too, leftover from the turn of the 20th century... (So train operators [state and/or privately owned companies] have to pay tolls/fees/rent to use certain privately owned sections in some places. And the quality of that track is the responsibility of the track owners, and that quality can be shoddy to say the least!)
Is the UKs network considered high speed? I know we have good connections but outside of HS2 I didn’t think it was considered high speed
The US rail lines were our local and state highways that tied into the interstate rail lines when people and products were moved by horse and wagon over dirt roads. The railroads subsidized their passenger service with the profits made from hauling freight. Railroads ended passenger service when paved roads and motor freight carriers reduced the amount of freight available to transport by rail. The small short lines returned their ROWs back to the state who then either took up the tracks or left them alone. The major railroads also abandoned ROWs back to the states where some tracks were removed to have walking and biking trails while others just sit and rust away. Some states are leasing the abandoned lines to small short line railroads that shuttle cars between the major carriers and provide storage yards for idle rolling stock. The US still has passenger service where needed and where there's enough ridership to pay for a good portion of the expense. Those use the freight lines but still need government subsidies to stay in business. The US doesn't have HSR crossing the nation since the cost would be astronomical just to transport a few people each day.
two of my favorites channels (the B1M and Kurzgesagt) drop a 60 minutes long video ! I don't know how, but I will watch until the end both of them .
Ron Hamburger Withdalot! What a guy! 😅
Another brilliant, breathtaking B1M show. Thank you!
in 1879 a 66 metre tall non reinforced Concrete tower was began & completed after 6 years of construction. According to the O/S it’s still 90 degrees vertical & it’s at the village of Sway 13 miles east of Bournemouth/Poole in SW England. It is alleged to be the tallest non reinforced concrete tower in Europe & offers views over the new forest & Solent to Portsmouth 22 miles east , the chalk downs of the Isle of Wight , the gateway to Englands’ Westcountry- Purbeck 22 miles west & if you know where to look , the illuminated red tip of Salisbury Cathedral 22 miles to the north. It offers Fantastic views on a clear day or night & nobody was exploited during its construction 😁👍
Are you sure you didn't confuse cm with inches, because as I understand it, it has tilted over 29 inches, which is something like 74 centimeters. What am I missing?
you're not missing anything. the channel owner is misinforming
Thanks. I am an aviation geek, but this is fascinating.......
80 % of them dont give a dam about buildings x D
I love the important message that needs to be heard by the people responsible and takes action immediately !!! Always an amazing video !!
there is a typo: Ron Hamburger is actually the chef engineer
1 Hour of B1M? Holy Moly.
Uh, the tower leaning in San Fran, while also sitting on the San Andreas fault. Lovely combination... Btw/ you forgot the Leaning Tower of New York!
I was fully expecting to see Brandenburg Airport here!
BER is a different matter needing its own video. It doesn’t fit into the skyscraper or bridge montage here
Solid video. Well done and detailed.
future prediction, you'll be doing an episode about the "The Line City" being built in the desert in a few years on it's failure
47:16 All this insane engineering and what really stands out in this video is this mans moustache.
41:38 when discussing One Seaport, the footage is looking from the east side of the building. The subsequent graphic shows the 3” lean “to the north” with an arrow that actually points south, if the provided footage is referenced.
Another candidate for this infamous list would have to be the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro power project in Aus. Tthe project has blown out in cost 6x to AUD$12bn and one of the TBMs only tunneled ~50m before a complex sinkhole bogged it. That was 7 months ago and it still hasn't moved. Fixing this could cost up to AUD$2bn by itself
Wtf how do you spend $12bn and only get 50 metres?
@@Lukeasz096they keep quiet about it mate.
Actually a couple days ago they finally got Florence moving again and running her in slurry mode which is what they should've done initially but I think the liars were trying to cut corners and dragging their feet. Perth was the same
The problem very few talk about is the fact Concrete towers don't absorb the sway meaning when under wind load they rock on their base this is the root cause as to why they lean. The Original World Trade Center towers had a 100% absorption rate meaning when they sway there was no movement at the base at all.
How do you build piles under an existing building without digging out a lot of soil and thus....further destabilising the building?
Keep in mind that the Millennium Tower is not only in earthquake country but in an area that has a lot of liquefaction in the case of an earthquake. They haven't had a largish earthquake in that area and I don't think that building will survive the next largish earthquake. I think they need to take that building down and start again. You put your foundation in first and it needs to go to bedrock, especially if you're building a huge building like that. No excuses. If you didn't put the building solidly on the bedrock, it's your fault that it's tilting and not the result of nearby construction, although I'm sure that didn't help since you built a building that is floating on clay, which is effectively quicksand if you get the right perturbation of the soil. This situation does not bode well for the future, especially when they get their next big earthquake. Luckily for them, we're more likely to get one down south but there will eventually be another great San Fransisco earthquake and this building and anyone around or under it is screwed when that earthquake happens.
What ever the argument and solutions will never b enough, since the developers already had a good deals with its financiers should anything bad happen. Ever heard a developer at this scales, who comes up with towers/skyscrapers proposals go bankrupt out of settlement? Nope?? then try research and if still not convinces, that means its rarely or almost never happened. They're coverED! The ones that bears the most losses, is the purchasers,residents and local citizens in general. Often times the financiers turns aways from loaners, insurances pays a sums thats absurds in figures, left the purchasers stranded in huge debts, while dealing with lost of lives if not unfortunate enough. Everything hints at the lost sides to the common ppl, never a win/win situation. Always, and if u denies this statement, its either u lacks of reading/ current world affairs, one 0f the cronies, or simply had too much hatred towards the humanity lol. And since all clues telling us to against it,and too many others ventures would benefits more than this...why then this craziness still happens worldwide. Maybe because simply, we are too Ignorant
Okay fellas nice job. Oh yeah and Mr. Hamburger will get things straight. Thumbs up!
16:05 they've been trying to do that since the 80's, and maybe even before. They wanted to build over the Amtrak railways and build new towers. Schuylkill Yards is coming to fruition, but not on a large scale. Which is fine for me and I believe suits West Philadelphia, but I'm sure taller buildings will come in the future
Ron Hamburger, what a name.
Great video again!! Thanks Fred!! Would definitely love to see an updated California High Speed rail section though! A lot of good has happened since these points😄
Both Texas and Cali, great High Speed Train constructions, we make this happen.
Do you mean to say that they have decided to stop wasting money on the project? The whole idea was built on a foundatio0n of lies after all. What do I mean? No taxpayer subsidy. Can you point to any high speed rail line that operates without subsidies? 220 Average speeds for the whole route including into S.F. and L.A. and not just the stretches in the desert. The biggest problem was bond money California was to have provided that never happened because the conditions for the bonds had not been met. The HSRA was relying on those funds to qualify for federal matching funds that have been the goal of the large contracting companies since the whole mess started. It was those companies who have been lobbing for decades to get the project going.
The Millenium Tower in Vienna by the Danube, is also sinking. Seems to be a thing with "Millenium"-named towers^^
Do you have source for that? I lived next to it for a few years and never have heard about it....
Ron's Hamburger sounds like an alias for Ronald McDonald.
1959 second narrows bridge in Vancouver collapsed mid construction killing 19 iron workers and one engineer. the new bridge is now called the iron workers memorial bridge
I’ll bet ya the wish they’d gone down to the bedrock in the first place. Gotta love “cost savings”
Millennium Tower already has PLUMBING probs according to reports
I kept getting distracted by the name of the engineer: Mr Ron Hamburger. They should rename the Millennium Tower to "Hamburger House". 🙂
1 hour of B1M? Yes please
bro can u have a look on the latest Elbtower in hamburg? something went catastrophically wrong on this one. (René Benko is involved).
San Francisco has much larger problems than a skyscraper. It's very sad to see actually.
"Enormous weight of the glass and steel" 01:57 shows a picture of exclusively aluminium 😂
Thank you for sharing construction many projects.
Haven't you heard? The Jeddah tower just restarted construction!
I suggest Ron himself goes to live in the Millenium Tower if it is safe to live. It is easy to say it is safe to live when you arent living in there.
Yeah, many ,many more should tell that straight into that man face
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A Sunday B1M 🤯
Not sure why anyone hires Figg to design and build bridges after the FIU fiasco and now this, in Corpus Christi.
VIDEO IDEA - You should do a video on Eugene Figg - the founder (RIP) of Figg Bridge Engineers - fascinating in his own right
Great line near the end - progress closer to a snail, than a bullet train.
These are just re runs with a ton of sponsors messages creatively woven in.
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@40:40 I would tell them to get in touch with the firms that built the *Millau viaduct* in *France.*
Now that is one beautiful construction The perfect marriage of English architecture and French construction.
In an ode to Idiocracy (2006), they should tie it to one of the nearby buildings. 2021 was the start toward Idiocracy, so that would be a good start in my opinion.
After seeing this, I'm having second thoughts about building the world's tallest, most luxurious hydroelectric dam at the South Pole.
As an engineer that works on mega towers, the thought that architects actually do any of the engineering is a joke
i dont know you but engineers dont have room to talk and a bunch owe me money for fixing their crap and making them look good without so much as a christmas card buddy
@@chrhadden yes because you would know how to calculate beam and column loadings for quatering....
Architect's are nothing but artists...They do pretty pictures 🫣
Fantastic, Thank you !
lol a high speed rail from dallas to houston just lmao
Your report on the Millennium Tower should have included much more content on the effect of the building's tilt on residents' apartments. As it was, it appeared to be dismissive of the problem caused by the developers and constructors.
Surely, a billion is nothing to complete Jeddah for these princes. Please build it!
what is the intro song? you guys always put great music in your videos, i would love it if there was a list in the description. thanks for all your effort Fred
The California High Speed rail is gonna take a massive effort to finish. And I dont see it happening saddly
It has to. We need passenger rail back in the United States. With the new Amtrak Corridors and highspeed coming in Las Vegas, Texas, the Northeast, and the Northwest, we need California High Speed rail to push public perception favorable to these projects. We need people to know that it can be done and that it is worth it.
I’ve always wondered why America never caught on with high speed rail, it’s so much better and more convenient and faster than driving everywhere, and better for the environment
It _is_ happening. There's at least one KZhead channel following its progress. Yes it's way too slow, but it's _happening._ All the talk about "I don't see it happening" is simply fed by, and further feeds, a narrative that's been _deliberately_ crafted and pushed by those who have _always_ opposed it happening, using various means (and lots of money).
If it happens it will be in 50 years. 1 trillion over budget. You'd think they would do all the studies and all the paperwork nonsense before they start any construction. America is huge btw. 100 miles for us is nothing. Public trams in the cites makes sense. But expensive rail between cities just isn't cost effective. Frieght trains take priority on American rails. So if you want high speed rail you have to do what California is doing. Build all new infastructure. Which as you can see costs more than it's worth.
At 54:00 : I dispute that. I have lived in California my whole life, and have frequently traveled between the bay area and Las Angeles. It is NOT a pain to do this trip. Flying or driving is not bad at all. Don't exaggerate.
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prof at Univ of Calf at Berkeley have written hugely indicting reports on Millennium Tower
An hour? Perfect!!!
France: vast high speed rail network since the 1980s. Stretching into the rest of Europe, taking lost of tickets from air travel. USA: can't figure it out still.
I took the Tokyo to Kyoto HSR. The Berlin HSR & Italian HSR. It is great for tourists to travel nearby city otherwise it would have been a skip. I hate traveling in plane. You have to drive to the airport, go through TSA, then wait for 2 hrs.
Or maybe it's because the distance between the UK and Germany is shorter than driving through Texas lol. Our country has states bigger than you all over
Yeah bigger be the problem when its can actually be an advantage. But the real problem esp when a country committed as a capitalism role model, is there's no monumental profits to those companies bidding for the project. 100% profit margin is never enough when u need to appoint a team of lobbyists, to 0rganised fund raising events, and more just to makes the relevant parties open an eyes to the proposals so on and forth. Other word, there will never b enough money to come up with a real projects that bring real benefits to masses, since there's not so much money in that,the best u could do is to come with half baked idea, pitch it with huge marketing and creates dreams, lobby it to the politicians, plastered it over with insane price tags and hopes the ppl didn't realized amid the fanfares,until its too late (approved by the Senate) then halts it half ways claims of under valued/running 0ver cost, asked for more money, twice or more..and hopes by then american accept it as their national heritage. Can someone tell me the last mega project done in america that generally accepted as brilliant project that many can claims benefits out of it, other than invading foreign country if that possible. Because many now argue the sole reason invading others country just to save its tanked economy, and the reasons are only come after, such as WMD threats and all. But its never wrong since its done right under its ppl blessing and nose.
Fill in the parking garage on the opposite side of the tilt with new beams attached to the opposite side columns - like a “ SEESAW “