Most Expensive Construction Mistakes in the World (Part 3)

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

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

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

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?

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

"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.

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 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!

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.

The new Berlin airport should have been on this list.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

You should include Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines Construction Cost : $US 2.3 billion Issues: 1. Plant revealed over 4,000 defects. 2. Was built near a major geological fault line. 3. Close to Volcanic Mount Pinatubo.