Do you know of similar construction mistakes in your country? 🏗🤔

'More than 300 countries around the world use Nuclear power' ~Having 193 countries in the whole world, this is quite impressive

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.

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.

I sold a couple properties in 2020 and I'm waiting for a house crash to happen so I buy cheap. In the meantime, I've been looking at stocks as an alt., any idea if it's a good time to buy? I hear people say it's a madhouse and a dead cat bounce right now but on the other hand, I still see and read articles of people pulling over $225k by the weeks in trades, how come?

"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.

Fun Fact : Biggest mistake in the world is when the world estimated the number of countries to be 300 but it actually is 196...

" *About 300 countries around the world* " Guys he's off-script

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

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.

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!

Shoddy work. Numerous mistakes. One: A picture of the state capitol building of Utah described as the city hall of San Francisco.

I watched the Harmon go up, and watched its subsequent dismantling. As for sinking buildings, mention could have been made of Mandalay Bay here in Las Vegas. According to Wikipedia: "The problem was solved by installing 536 micropiles (200-foot-long metal pipes filled with grout, each capped with a hydraulic jack) below the building, at an estimated cost of $8 million to $10 million."

4:26 ‘More than 300 countries around the world use nuclear power’ the 196 countries: cool fact bro

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.

The Ayalon Highway between Tel Aviv and Rishon Letzion in Israel was rebuilt for limited access over the last 20 years. One of the goals of the project was building room for a train line in middle of the highway. However, the company building one of the interchanges neglected to consider this during construction, requiring major reconstruction of that interchange just 10 years after it was completed. I don't know the cost of the mistake, but I could update with the intersection name, if you're interested.

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.

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.

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

The new Berlin airport should have been on this list.

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.

If you do future videos on expensive failures, suggest you look into the Ottawa, Canada LRT system. Its 1st phase opened a couple of years ago way over budget and has since been riddled with severe problems.

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.

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.

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.

My parents always said I was a mega project that didn't turned out as planned.

I lived in San Francisco during the entire construction of the New Bay Bridge Eastern Spann. There was nothing actually wrong with the original cantilever spann. The only damaged to the bridge, by the Loma Prieta Earthquake, was the slipping off of ONE of the roadway sections at ONE end. The slip-off occurred as the cantilever web expanded and contracted during the quake. The roadway consisted of several INDEPENDENT flat slab-sections, NO damage to the Cantilever Web actually occurred: Only ONE raodway sections slipped off one of its end -supports! Re-enforcement could have easily been carried out. The new spann, (seven billion dollars later), is ugly by comparison. It was a tremendous waste of money!

I worked with a construction cost consultant who told me about a project he worked on in the early 2000s (2002-2006). He described it as a 120+ floor mixed commercial-residential high-rise with 5-8 levels of underground parking that was to be located at 400 North Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, right next to the Chicago River. The entire area was contained by sheet piles and a massive cofferdam was built in anticipation of excavation starting (est. $150M USD). The highway and road infrastructure as well as storms, sewers, watermains, etc., were also constructed (est. $80M USD) when 2007-8 hit and the project was quashed. I don't know who owns the land today but the massive circular cofferdam remains. Type in the address above and hit aerial view.

The first one is why you should do your homework (meaning checking the area/finding a good architectural space to put the buildings, etc.) With the Millennium tower, it needed less weight and some stronger and better materials to work with. It was definitely a big mistake.

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.

as a civil engineer, seeing number 6 getting demolished like that broke my heart, all that hard work gone to waste

"More than 300 countries in the world use nuclear power" Lmao

Respect to all engineering inspectors , all over the world 🌎. Heroes

I never had a price for a nuclear reactor in mind, but now that I know it's around a few billion it's just one more thing on the list of stuff Bezos could afford.

The Millennium Tower was supposed to be built into the sand and not on bedrock btw, its standard practice in the Bay Area

You should look into the North/South metro line in Amsterdam. That thing went way over budget, doubled the time for completion and made a city(or at least the areas near the building sites) that is built on stilts in a swamp sink at an increased rate where everything in going crooked.

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, more than 300 countries hey? I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many in total let alone ones that use nuclear power.

About the San Francisco oakland bridge. It was fixed but was deemed too old and one of the footings was moved a few inches on the oakland side. The cantilever section was a well known problem since construction

I used to valet cars at the millennium tower and their parking lots are in the very bottom part . I always felt weirded out going all the way in the bottom. Didn’t know how bad the condition of the building until i saw this video.

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.

Ooh! There's also the Montreal Olympic Stadium, which was another "mega project failure", as it suffered construction delays, remodelings, a retractable roof that can’t withstand Montreal winters and snow accumulations, pieces of concrete falling off, etc… (basically a giant toilet bowl, if you ask me very subjectively!) 😇😷😏

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.

It would be nice to learn more about the Olkiluoto Reaktor building. It is an EPR type which promisses highest safety of all reactor architectures, because a great core melting is controlled by an core catching room, which is not existing in any other architecture. This needs additional building volume, concrete and high tempurature proof material for the molten core, which may reach over 2000 K. Also in France in Flammenville an EPR was build with very high costs. In China two EPR's are build with no problems. Like it is typical for nowadays China. If Germany would decide to build new nuclear power station (low probabilty), EPR's could be build too. The EPR (European Pressurized water Reaktor) was a joint development from France, Germany and other european nations. Planning an reactor of highest safety. But only a few modells are build and the costs are tremendously. But please make an own video about the EPR, its intention and realizations in China, France and Finnland !

The Zilwaukee Bridge in Michigan was a construction boondoggle. It was supposed to take only 3 years to complete, and it took 9 years due to construction issues and such.

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.

I grew up in the bay and going to San Francisco half the week my whole life. I remember always driving past the construction of the new bay bridge for YEARS and then all of a sudden it started getting taken down and replaced with the now new bridge and they finished the new bridge super quickly and it’s a skinny little thang so I don’t know how safe it is tbh loll … ALSOO about Millennium Tower, I remember local radio stations constantly updating on it and making jokes about it and how the whole bay was reacting to the tower and we all literally think it’s so funny that they fucked up that bad and are trying so hard to fix it but it keeps getting worse 😂 the bay had hella people saying they’re gonna go over there and just put books under it to prop it up 😂

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.

All I've learned is that proper planning, open communication, and never cutting corners is key to building crazy structures.

My wife is planning a kitchen remodel. It should be stiff competition for everything in this video.

i was part of the crew that worked on the demolition of the Harmon Tower. the place felt haunted lol and it was full of cracks on the walls and ceiling.

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.

most of the pictures of the San Francisco Bay Bridge are actually of the replacement of the Tappan Zee bridge in the suburbs of New York City , a construction project which was completed without serious problems roughly 15 years ago.

TRshowrs 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.

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.

I remember when I used to live in California that bridge was always under construction. Younger me was so confused on why there was half a bridge next to the completed one.

The Newfoundland (Canada) Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Damn is years behind and billions over budget. It's set to double/triple hydro rates in the province. There have been university research papers detailing it as a case study in how _not_ to do mega projects.

Update on Olkiluoto 3. It opened few months back but now they found large cracks on the reactor and it had to be stopped

Hidroituango in Colombia. It was planned to be the largest hidroelectric in the country, but in the construction landslides blocked the tunnels of water evacuation and the damn started to flood. Then they had to flood the house of machines with all the equipment inside. There are some incredible videos of what happened there.

The new Bay bridge also had a big problem with bolts cracking.

"An earthquake in 1989 drew attention to it's faults" I see what you did there.

California’s East Bay bridge was a huge overrun in expense, but that is common in a project undertaken in one of the most expensive areas in the world.

here in germany we also have "stuttgart 21".... i've been in stuttgart last week and the whole city is damaged by large construction sites. nearly impossible to drive or walk around at the main station stuttgart 😂

The Hospital City in Panama, was meant to be a huge hospital area but it was stoped because financial investigation in 2013 or so and still stoped

I'm somewhat glad to see no projects from my country are on there considering our governments inability to cost a project!

"...weren't ready for the exacting standards for building a nuclear reactor." Wow.

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%

Not sure which video this could count towards, but in Minneapolis, we had the highway 35 bridge collapse and the metrodome roof collapse. The metrodome roof was fixed for like $8 million (I think) only to be torn down to make room for the vikings stadium. 😑

Imagine living in a nearby building and missing the memo about the demolition then suddenly half your city explodes.

Ah, yes. The train tunnel through Hallandsåsen... The construction was started the same year I was born. It finished just it time for me to use it when I needed to travel north for an interview with my first employer after uni.

You could do a whole video on Bay Bridge span or sales force plaza, each, alone. There was also a $1,000,000 grand opening party for the bridge that was cancelled for no good reason. I personally, due to rumors, would not set foot in any building near the salesforce tower.

That Millennium Tower was probably an attempt to build real-life Glass Tower from Towering Inferno. And in real life they made it even more dangerous than Bill Holden and Richard Chamberlain :D

4:26 "More than 300 countries around the world use nuclear power" Yeah believable

The Hamburg Elbe Philharmonic Hall was planed to cost EUR 77 million. Actually it had a price label of EUR 866 million.

I don't know how it was planned to go but the ih-10/loop 410 interchange on the north side of San Antonio was started when I was a preschooler and wasn't finished until long after I finished school. Over 20 years and it screwed up traffic the whole time

Might want to look into 161 Maiden Lane in NYC. I’m in high rise construction and this project is ongoing for more than 5 years. Approximately 60 stories and located right by south street seaport. Building is leaning about 16 inches at the top. Not all the piles were driven to the ground at the start in order to save some $$$. If you look you will find plenty of info on the project and current lawsuits

The Bay Bridge Eastern Span (no. 2) wasn’t a failure, it was just far more expensive than necessary due to choosing a type only because it looked cool.

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"

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.

It's the damage which makes me a little sad but thinking about the people who lead these makes me much more sad

Not the "most expensive," but IAH airport in Houston, Texas had contractors redo several taxiways along the 15L/33R runway. Upon completion, it was noticed that several patches of the new taxiways were cracking and breaking apart. Several million dollars later, they were broken up (again) and new concrete was poured, again. Different contractors were used the 2nd time. This occurred about 5 years ago.

Watching as a geotechnical engineer I got so much anxiety watching this I almost started sweating

Well, I started landscaping my yard this Spring. It's now October and my cost over run is out of sight!

Number 4: As of October 22 Olkiluoto 3 haven't opened for regular power generation. It's in test use, but there has been some issues. Now they think that it might go fully online at the end of December.

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)!

According to the Guinness World of Records, the Ryugyong Hotel in N Korea is said to be the tallest unoccupied building in the world.

The bridge along on the high way to Thunder Bay lifted about 6 years ago by about 3 feet in the winter so the bridge was closed and construction to fix it up began immediately

North South subway in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was supposed to open in 2010. Due to many construction problems it took 8 years longer. Estimated about 1,5 billion guilders it has cost more than 4,5 billion euros (about 10 billion guilders)

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

13:03 I like how that one building didn't collapse. Like, hey where did everyone go?

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.

i had a friend i grew up with who was a surveyor on the new bay bridge. He would openly brag about doing methamphetamines with his co workers on the construction site. He would stay up days on end and go to work. He told me about many mistakes on the construction that never made it publicly. He said OCIE was either lacking in inspection or just paid off.

You should look at the new Airport at Berlin in Germany. Way higher Production cost than estimated, as well as Production time. There is even a tunnel for a trainstation, where a train has to go through regularly, even though there are no people, to keep the air from being to stagnant.

You should talk about the Montreal's olympic stadium, that cost over 3x the original price and that wasn't ready for olympics

In a while we will hear about how that tower in San Francisco just fell into the tower next to it.

Wow it’s a shame how these workers aren’t as careful as they should be with certain buildings that crazy to hear how frequently tht happens

4:29! 😂 The quote "More than 300 countries use nuclear power..." Made my day 😁

I have a question, on the Millennium Tower, if the building is out by 558mm (58 cm or 22inch) how much slope is on the floors? because surely those floors aren't flat anymore?

My professor worked on the forensic structural analysis for the Harmon Hotel. He was just telling us about it the other day!

What about the Ocean Tower in South Padre Island? That building was demolished after a construction error made the building sink. It was never completed.