The Biggest Construction Mistakes in the World

Do you know similar construction mistakes in your country?🤔👇

We constructed a sandcastle on the beach. Unfortunatly, we built it too close to the shoreline, and surge of waves came in during high tide and washed it all away...two whole hours of work gone in a few moments. Fortunately no one was injured except the pride of my daughter whom to this day is still struggling with the drama that unfolded that day at the beach.

You forgot to mention that the Tower of Pisa is not only tilted, it's also slightly curved, because architects tried to compensate the tilt by making one side of the upper floors taller.

The only problem with the Intempo Building seems to be financial issues, nothing compared to the collapsing or possible collapse of the other examples...

I would say that all the fish dying is more tragic than the hotel's floor getting destroyed.

The Swedish warship "Wasa" was ready built in 1628 set sail the 28th of august that year and sank 10 minutes later...we have a whole museum about it. It's very famous. Well worth a look.

What is worse? A: Buying off plan in a building that falls over weeks before you are meant to move in? B: Moving into one of the other blocks and seeing the remains of an entire IDENTICAL block sitting on its side outside your bedroom window?

I saw a shopping complex built in a Chinese community in Los Angeles. It was a huge corner complex at a major intersection. Working as a telecom tech back then, I saw all the faults of the structure. Sub basement walls were never waterproofed, resulting in year round wet walls and floors in the lower parking lot. The first level floor didn't have the proper concrete reinforcement so it sank when tenants started moving in with their equipment. Then I found out that this was the first concrete building this architect had ever designed in his career and yet it still passed the local city inspections. Someone's pocket got lined.

It's not necessarily a big mistake, but my parents lived in an apartment building up in Halifax Canada that had an empty pool on the roof. The engineers had accounted for the weight of everything needed for the pool except the water so it had to stay empty.

10 years of imprisonment for the loss of 502 innocent people's souls,is not a strict penalty.

I was a bricklayer for 25yrs, if you don`t get your foundation right you`ll chase the mistake all the way through the roof, it works the same with people too, raise em up wrong and they`ll be a mess when they`re all grown up.

The least surprising was the Aquadom. People always underestimate water.

You need to cover the Millennium Tower in San Francisco! It has tilted TWO FEET since its opening in 2009! The skyscraper is 645 feet tall and nothing so far has stopped its tilting!

And what’s the point of add music so loud that it’s difficult to understand the voice?

According to Seconds from Disaster documentary, Sampoong's cracks isn't just from construction failure, but also accelerated it via the air conditioners, instead of using cranes to move them, the management orders a cheapter roller system to easily move it on the roof, right on top one of the straining column, 5E. It also comes from the vibration of turning on also contributes to the failure until collapse.

I got two for you: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge which collapsed 4 months after it was finished and the San Francis dam that collapsed 12 hrs after Mulholland inspected it and 450 people were killed.

I used to work on the top floor of the Aquadom building. To watch the fishes during breaks was really enjoyable and relaxing.

The Pisa tower started tilting very soon after construction started. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t start over and instead continued building a tower they knew would never stand straight.

As someone from Alicante, I remember hearing rumors that the Intempo, or the M building, as we call it, was actually abandoned because the construction company presold many flats already and decided to run away with the money

Sometimes, you don't expect much from YT, but I was pleasantly surprised by how many different angles we were shown the famous tower in Pisa. First time I've ever seen a bit of the surrounding town. Nice touch, whoever chose the clips and photos. Did not know the area around the tower was mostly open. Not lost in a city, almost a rural setting.