Fails include a supermarket collapse, amusement parks ablaze and a tunnel rescue in India.
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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.
