15 World's Funniest Engineering Fails 

Oh god, I lost it at the guy mimicking the jerky screwed-up animation of inserting the bank card in the ATM. I needed that laugh today. :D

Undocumented. Each of these has a story behind it, and these stories would have made a much better video. Some are photoshopped jokes, many are from remodels or repairs, some (like the trees) are planned to keep the trees, some are in-your-face "compliance" with handicapped access rules, and some are angry or bored construction workers. All have a reason for existing.

Those railways have probably been abandoned long ago, that's why there are structure on/next to them.

The tree "growing through the balconies" is ACTUALLY the balconies built around the tree to preserve it.

14:35 "where the blue walls are stretched out" pretty sure the walls are yellow

99% of this isn’t engineering mishaps they’re pictures taken during rehabilitation

Um engineers don't actually do the building. That would be the contractors, the architects draw the plans. All engineers do is tell you what you need to do the job or how to fix it. All of these are construction fails, not engineering.

The response of the guy at the screwy ATM @ 2:26 (at The Bank of Texas no less) was utterly priceless! A home run in improvisation comedy.

Many "mistakes/fails" happen when a building is remodeled & it's cheaper to leave it than remove it.

Almost all of these are either not due to the engineer or photoshopped

In one of the examples an exit door is obviously placed where a platform or floor once stood as you can see the exposed brickwork. Also in some old buildings windows get bricked up by the occupants, especially if it is a business. In England when you go along the canal tow paths you see lots of doors that seem to lead to death as they are on the upper floor. However, many used to have a hoist on them to lift cargo out of the barges and on the wall above you can sometimes see the remnants of the fixings. Also in England, windows were bricked up in many houses leaving just the outline with it's lovely shaped brickwork because at one time property owners were made to pay taxes for each window.

The second of the two low installed ATM machines is in my home city. It’s long since been removed and bricked up but you can see the outline in the brickwork where it used to be.

Exactly how can the workers on mis~aligned bridges roads and train tracks not see it coming before the problem ends get even close? Some of these are simply stairway doors closed off but the stairs remaining. Severe incline ramps perhaps for passifying ignorant inspectors.

This should be called poor quality photo shopping 🤦🏼‍♂️

Thank you for explaining how trains, doors and windows work. What an amazing service you provide.

Half a toilet?! Omg!🤣

#14 , Like the Winchester mansion

0:00, just wanted to say that the bridge is on a barge and is still being moved

I don't think I'm color blind, but there is no way those walls in the last clip are blue. A type of yellow yes, but definitely not blue.

The low ATM seemed to be designed so that you can withdraw cash while staying in your car like in a drive thru.....

“It’s estimated 245 million Americans ride an escalator daily” there are only 328 million Americans. This cannot be true. You could say 245 million trips are taken on American escalators.

There is no way anyone would keep bldg a bridge the didn't line from both sides !!This is BS.

engineers make a minimal (tolerable) errors but never fails!

2:25 really made me laugh :D

Numer 13 regarding the train lines, most of those rails look rusty. Chances are they are lines not being used anymore and they didn't want to pay to have the track ripped up so they just built over the track. Wouldn't call it a mishap or a fail.

Clllliiiiiiiicccckkkkkkbbbbbbaaaaaaiiiiitttttt, that I fell for..... Well played.

13:42 peeing outlets are great. Those engineers must be genius 😅

Half toilet: When my house was built, the upstairs was left unfinished until I could afford to finish it. The plumbing and walls were stubbed out. When I went to finish it, the toilet drain was too short for the toilet to clear the wall. I had to build a recess in the wall for the tank and back of the toilet. On a later house I had built, the contractor built a concrete porch and its roof. Unfortunately, the roof missed the porch by several feet. We had to close on the house unfinished, because we knew the contractor was going bankrupt. He left at least 12 houses unfinished. My employer built a new building. To save money on electricity, they installed motion-detector lighting switched---with too short time on. Ive carried a small flashlight ever since. They also made rooms between rooms that would lock automatically, trapping you in with no phone. Misplaced-timey clocks hung over outlets to hide the power source, and couldn be relcated. School and office clocks grequently were wired such that they could be controlled by a central office. I once built a clock into a wall, with the battery and controls on the other side of the wall. Interfeeing trees: too close to the foundation or driveway and the roots will destroy your foundationeering trees, and the tree will prbably die soon anyway and have to be taken down.

I don't blame only the engineers. I fault the guys who actually built/constructed the things. At some point, someone should have picked up on the blatant errors.

The picture showing the pole in between the train tracks: The tracks have obviously not be used for a long time. Note the grass and weeds growing between the tracks and the rust on the tracks themselves.

Most of these are either photoshopped BS or are after-the-fact modifications. Some are amusing though!

6:45 that one, I actually could excuse...

These made me laugh. But I really loved the trees coming up through the balconies. Thats really cool.

those train mishaps are a clear case of "not my job."

OMG! What were they thinking?! How could these things get approved?!

#2:25. Seriously funny!!! I love that type of simple and obvious humour.. :'-D

The low ATM is for wheelchair access, and the floating doors were originally in place for products from the factory the building used to be, to be dumped into trucks backed up at street level...

Hmmm. So MY question (about the wall splitting the toilet in half) is, who tf decided to cut the sheet rock and finish it absolutely perfectly around that toilet?? And no one saw the problem before actually beginning to build the wall?

I REFUSE to believe that those were the railroad engineers doing! I just flat out refuse. As far as im concerned most of those look like the work of lazy/spiteful city maintenance workers. I feel in most (if not all) of those botched RR track jobs were done after the fact! Either way it is HiLaRiOuS... *Except when the results are injury or death.

Those ramps make for great skating

2:27 absolutely KILLED me! Hahahahaha

Come on man, really?

Come on...who makes a half toilet and who installs one? Ridiculous

These are obviously fake, but non the less, entertaining

These are hilarious 😆🤣

the funniest engineering fail was the civil engineering final I took last week

These videos are classic I don’t know what happened to the head engineer at the end of that one

Lol people...these pics are BS. Most, if not ALL of them are photoshopped gags. You really gonna trust a narrator who doesn't even know what role engineers play in construction?

#15 oops now what do we do? 😂😂

2 minutes of explaining what escalators are for. 5 seconds of escalator fails.

Me when I forgot to bring my phone to the toilet: 7:20

Ah, the complete opposite of the balcony fail where instead of a balcony but no door leading to it, you have a door, but no balcony on the other side of the door

When I was in College, we had a building that everyone hated having classes because it was hard to find classrooms. Sometimes you would have to enter one classroom to get to the door for your classroom. I’m sure there is a floating door somewhere. The irony? It was the Engineering Building 😂🤣

Its construction/installation fails not Engineering fail. Unless that's how the Engineer drew the layout ?

The ATM card spasm made me die of laughter 😂

@8:05 Reminds me of the latrine we had in our circa WW2 barracks during Army basic training in the 1970's. Privacy! What privacy? A platoon that craps together becomes more of a fighting force I guess.

Still cracks me up when people say ATM machine. The M in ATM means Machine.

The way he says hallarious is hallarious XD

5:10, good lord

The toilet on 7:44 is art 👌👏

People are overly critical in this videos comment section jeez. It's just an entertaining list video, People need to enjoy themselves more in life...I enjoy your video thanks for Uploading💯👍

Construction crew maybe have a bad day before they went to work 😤😤😤🥵🥵🥵🥵🤪🤪

Half of these fails may be due to bad planning. The other half is more like: Did no construction worker ask, why he should build a wall over a toilet seat?

8:26 that toilet height tho!!

@8:16 it looks like a sports stadium men's restroom. great for half time.

That drywall job bisecting the toilet was fucking mint.

Good grief! The condos that I walk my dog through have the worst handicap parking. They're just next to curbs or bushes, or stairs, there's no ramps anywhere!

1:42 Heh.... how can anyone NOT see that? This is just bureaucracies that don't care one way or another.

7:36 " no one would build this on purpose" actually thats the only way it happened you just got trolled bro lmao

14:40-“blue walls”??? 😱🤦‍♀️Uh, they were YELLOW! 😬👍

I thinks that we should put in contact those who build the floating doors and those who make stairs for nothing! they would get along very well :D

Honestly the light pole is better then the tree, the tree will continue to grow and destroy the building. The light pole will never move.

we have a floating door at work lmao

Engineering and REAL WORLD stuff always clashes! Engineers don't understand that some things don't work!

I had te remove a handicap sign on a space and replace it with NO PARKING. It was right next to the garage that held the dumpster in a narrow alley. The big garbage truck needed to be able to get in and out and it was dangerous. I was worried someone might complain but no one did.

How does this happen 😂

I can't believe the word "handicap" is still being used.

ONLY ON A FLAT EARTH! LOL!

some wheelchair ramps and handicapped parking spaces were placed where they were to satisfy the ada act and nothing more.

The carpenter said to the architect, " Not my problem".

Our airport has escalators and it also has flat escalators that go the entire length of the airport basically

Stupid is as stupid does.

Yeah this has officially crippled me

Low positioned ATM machines are for wheelchair users - not placed there in error.

2/3 of the US population rides an escalator daily? 🤔 I’m not sure about that?

Wait is Chris Kane from Simple History is also narrator for Top 5 just like Simon for Top 10?

From Australia: being disabled, I am NOT "handicapped", so when are Americans going to stop using this highly offensive term!???

That bridge 'mistake' is definitely photoshopped. There's no way such misalignment can go undetected till the last few metres considering the advanced measuring instruments in use today.

How would you not notice a misalignment?

The last toilet on floor could be an old-style Japanese one.

Photoshop does wonders for misaligned bridges

Engineering fail, or construction fail?

I've actually seen a few houses with trees going through the middle of the living room going through the roof. But it was completely done on purpose and wasn't a fail. They looked awesome and thought they were the coolest thing.

Most of these fails are Architect fails, not Engineer fails.

which came first, the palm tree or the house? me:... build a house somewhere else duh

I have a hard time believing much of this is true. Most cities require permits and have inspectors Changes are often ordered before work can continue. However, it is possible that a construction company would complete the work knowing that they would be paid extra to fix the problem.

There USED to be an entry, but Chuck Norris slammed the revolving door.

I would really like to know how those misaligned bridges were fixed.

This is clickbait BS.

10:04 theres a door like that where i work they did renovations to the factory removing the second floor around where that door is. instead of removing the door they installed a dead bolt lock and bars in front of the door. i find that very silly and a waste of money. they could have removed the door put in a frame for a window there and installed a window without all that extra work to make the door unusable