Fails include a supermarket collapse, amusement parks ablaze and a tunnel rescue in India.
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Concrete: when it fails, the very floor beneath your feet can collapse; asbestos was a miracle product that seemed too good to be true; tailings dams hold mining waste; two buildings explode sending flames and debris flying through the streets.
Italy's Morandi Bridge was an engineering marvel, until it was a national embarrassment; steam pipes keep New York; shopping malls have their problems, especially when the burden is too much to bear; when billboards come down, they come down hard.
The Hard Rock in the Big Easy suddenly crumples, turning construction into destruction; tunnels create direct routes from A to B, until they cave in; a bridge construction in Miami collapses, becoming the worst of its kind; electricity fails.
When this UK power station reached the end of the road it took all the power with it; crawler cranes lift heavy things, but operators can make errors; landslides; on axles, tires support mighty loads, but when axles fail, tires go rogue.
Glass: when it fails it's not all it's cracked up to be; excavators, these destroyers are the machines to get it done; the Georgia Dome dropped like a stone, but in Detroit, the Pontiac Silverdome roof fell, but the building didn't.
Construction relies on cranes to hoist the next high-rise, but when they fail, they make one big mess; amusement parks use intense G-forces to thrill us; hurricanes and typhoons; escalators are not so great when they fail.
How did Notre Dame catch fire? No one thinks about stairs until they make us; smokestacks push our junk into the sky, but when they become junk themselves, they get blown to bits; can a building be earthquake-proof?
When a Dutch city replaces a bridge, a breeze turns a bridge into a giant sail; controlled demolition seems simple, but why do some buildings just fail to fall? The world of sinkholes; buildings go down in seconds.
Earthquake-proof buildings fall down; a battery factory blows up; and a bridge collapses.
Flash floods, cable car calamity, car park fires and a train station collapse.
An oversized billboard falls in Mumbai, causing death and destruction; in Minnesota, excessive snowfall leads to multiple roof collapses, creating hazardous conditions.
Examine a condo collapse, India's dam distress and an aircraft's unwanted air.
Elevated highways fall, a bridge collapses, and houses plunge into the ocean.
When buildings fail, they fall, burn, sink into holes, or even lean.
Fails include a supermarket collapse, amusement parks ablaze and a tunnel rescue in India.
Fails include an overpass fire, a downed radio telescope and a sinking airport.
Fails include a disastrous shuttle mission, and an unwanted and very expensive airport.
Lightning causes construction mayhem, cities are sinking, and bridges are falling down.
Earthquake-proof buildings fall down; a battery factory blows up; and a bridge collapses.
Fails include a broken Baltimore bridge, a Manhattan crane fire and a ``poonami`` in China.
Examine a condo collapse, India's dam distress and an aircraft's unwanted air.
The reasons behind construction crane collapses in Seattle, Manhattan and Bangkok; an in-depth look at the destruction caused by Typhoon Mangkhut; perils of escalators.
Go behind the scenes of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire; a look at the reasons scaffolding fails; why some buildings crumble in an earthquake while others stay standing.
A look at what went wrong during the demolition of Michigan's Pontiac Silverdome; investigate the toppling of a turbine in Ontario; demolition by excavator.
The failed controlled demolition of The Clarion hotel in Las Vegas; substandard soil conditions and reclaimed land are among the reasons for construction site collapses; how construction, urbanization and heavy equipment contribute to sinkholes.
Fails include a broken Baltimore bridge, a Manhattan crane fire and a ``poonami`` in China.
Fails include a disastrous shuttle mission, and an unwanted and very expensive airport.
When buildings fail, they fall, burn, sink into holes, or even lean.
Fails include a supermarket collapse, amusement parks ablaze and a tunnel rescue in India.
Fails include an overpass fire, a downed radio telescope and a sinking airport.
Lightning causes construction mayhem, cities are sinking, and bridges are falling down.
Elevated highways fall, a bridge collapses, and houses plunge into the ocean.
A billboard falls, subway tunnels cave, and "ghost-scrapers" remain unfinished.
Flash floods, cable car calamity, car park fires and a train station collapse.
Go behind the scenes of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire; a look at the reasons scaffolding fails; why some buildings crumble in an earthquake while others stay standing.
The failed controlled demolition of The Clarion hotel in Las Vegas; substandard soil conditions and reclaimed land are among the reasons for construction site collapses; how construction, urbanization and heavy equipment contribute to sinkholes.
Glass: one of the most versatile materials in the construction world; it's both practical and beautiful, but when it fails it's not all it's cracked up to be; excavators: when what goes up, must come down, these destroyers are the machines to get it done; Atlanta's Georgia Dome dropped like a stone, but in Detroit, the Pontiac Silverdome roof fell, but the building didn't. Two cranes, fifty tons of steel, the pesky laws of gravity and one giant hole. What could go wrong? Everything.
The reasons behind construction crane collapses in Seattle, Manhattan and Bangkok; an in-depth look at the destruction caused by Typhoon Mangkhut; perils of escalators.
The construction of the Hard Rock in the Big Easy suddenly crumples, turning construction into destruction; tunnels are engineering marvels; cutting through the landscape, they create direct routes from A to B, until they cave in; a bridge construction in Miami, hailed as the first of its kind, suddenly collapses, becoming the worst of its kind; electricity is a miracle of modern science, until the power fails, and when our infrastructure fails, things go off with a bang!
When this UK power station reached the end of the road, it took all the power with it; the crawler crane: these giants lift heavy things, but sometimes operators make errors, mistakes that can bring the mightiest crawler down to earth; landslides: whether it's the weather or just bad timing, when soil gets wet, the ground is no longer solid and everything goes downhill from there; construction tires: on axles they support mighty loads, but when axles fail, tires go rogue, and stuff gets broken.
Concrete: the most prolific building material on Earth, but when it fails, the very floor beneath your feet can collapse; waterproof, fireproof, soundproof; asbestos was a miracle product that seemed too good to be true, because it was; tailings dams hold mining waste, or at least they should, because when they fail, the results are catastrophic; in New York, two buildings explode sending flames and debris flying through the streets, and create a mystery for emergency workers to solve.
Italy's Morandi Bridge was an engineering marvel, until it was a national embarrassment; miles of steam pipe keep New York City warm, but that doesn't mean the Big Apple doesn't sometimes blow its stack; the shopping mall: a benign place where you go to buy stuff in comfort and security, but malls have their problems, especially when the burden is too much to bear; billboards are the highest form of advertising; they come in all shapes and sizes, and when they come down, they come down hard.
