Account of one of the most dramatic construction disasters in recent history: two telescopic cranes collapsing, barges swaying and a 187-ton section of bridge crashing into a quiet residential neighborhood, causing the destruction of several buildings.
In Asia, we are seeing various construction site collapses: massive holes in the ground that implode spectacularly, throwing retaining walls, roads and equipment dozens of meters below. Poor soils and cleared land appear to be the main causes of these failures.
This episode chronicles the horrific fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in the spring of 2019. Several eyewitnesses filmed the raging flames with their phone cameras, but these images failed to show the frenzied confusion that reigned behind the scenes nor the weakness of infrastructure.
In construction, scaffolding is an essential structure. If something goes wrong, the consequences can be disastrous. But why do some scaffoldings collapse? We examine the causes of these accidents through multiple examples.
Glass is perhaps the most popular building material of the modern era. But building with glass is difficult and dangerous. It suffers spontaneous breakages and falls from skyscrapers, even crashing into warehouse workers. We examine the phenomenon of nickel sulfide inclusions in glass.
The vast majority of demolitions use an excavator to destroy the building. In this episode, we show you the perfect demolition, and we compare it to multiple cases where the operation failed. Operator error, unstable ground, unpredictable fall angles: we show it all.
