Sydney Tower's Sudden Fall - Massive Engineering Mistakes - S06 EP601 - Engineering Documentary 

CLICKBAIT title. The video was interesting but the Sydney tower segment did not appear until the end. The tower did not fall. It was still a serious problem for the residents but the video title is totally misleading. Most of the segments were very interesting and a lot more interesting than the Sydney tower.

The cracking due to "differential settlement" of Mascot Towers (1-5 Bourke St, Mascot) seemed to have coincidentally happened soon after major roadworks (associated with Westoconnex) and more appartment construction right next to it. Of course, there will be the claim that "coincidence doesn't mean causality", although this does seem to get the road and appartment construction companies, along with the NSW State Government "off the hook" for accidentally undermining Mascot Towers and all three having to pay damages to the suddenly homeless appartment dwellers.

No tower in Sydney has collapsed. Are you a master baiter mate???

I heard that it would've cost the MGM GRAND around $21 000 to put sprinklers into the restaurant. The amount that MGM had to pay was around $400m to the victims of the fire.

There was an earlier failure in Sydney, the OPAL, I believe it was called. Large cracks were found in that one too. Bits of it were falling off. I think it had something to do with a sinkhole or undermining from other construction work.

23:46 Canberra hospital 'implosion'

The video description titled "Sydney Tower's Sudden Fall" does not accurately depict the building referred to in the video. The description suggests Sydney Tower Eye, also known as Sydney Tower or Centrepoint Tower. The structure shown in the video is the Mascot Tower. The correct building that should be referred to in the video's title and description is the Mascot Tower or Mascot Tower complex.

The bridge can fail at any minute and yet the Chief Engineer Jason is standing just underneath!!!

The neighbours basement level parking area was flooded during construction and they simply pumped out all the water which disrupted the stability provided by an undisrupted water table

only as strong as it's weakest link

The Bridge is always going to fail because of the mudslides and the landslides etc. What I believe you need to do is excavate where the landslides happen and then cement it working around the Bridge so that it's strong to withstand future landslides. Also after the Bridge is up cement underneath the Bridge so that it's strong don't let soil and dirt and water ruin it because that means the Bridge will always be taken over by natural events.

If engineers don't take the terrain and natural angle of repose into account in their calculations, the result is exactly what happens with high angles of repose and water erosion, it appears that was not factored into the design of the column and foundation design.

The biggest problem is nothing is made to last because there's no money in it. Tenders are given to the lowest contractors and instead of making this bridge bigger wider & strong enough to last 150 to 200 years these engineers think I'll be gone by then not my problem. Australia is the worst at road planning and construction we have road construction companies who started out as soil and garden suppliers they want to branch out into road construction meaning they will only need a few pieces of new equipment to do the job but have no experience road construction experience they win the tender because it was the cheapest tender by far do the job then within 2 to 3 years the road is falling to bits and its receiving major road works, 10 years later its being ripped up and all re-done again. They build a new HWY putting in overpasses just wide enough for 4 lanes underneath instead of moving the headwalls out wide enough to take 8 lanes for future traffic numbers this is not rocket science populations dont get smaller & housing divisions are being constructed all the time. Instead of factoring in an expansion for the next 100 years they couldn't give a shit their just worried about their job and giving the government a good price instead of telling them the obvious & that in the long run billions will be saved. I've seen cable barriers run for tens of km only to be grubbed out 12 months later to widen the road because planning and future thinking doesn't factor into it. Why wouldn't you install all the infrastructure knowing in 5 years an extra lane or two will need to go in because of the increase in the population growth but cater for 50 to 80 years so why wouldn't you install all the infrastructure while you have the equipment there in the first place because in 10 to 20 years the cost of materials would triple then when this HWY can't cope with the increase in traffic all that is needed is to put in the road surface. By infrastructure I mean things like electric cables to cover 8 lanes & not just 2 piping for drainage out where the edge of 8 lanes would go, culverts extending all the way across for an 8 lane HWY, headwalls for overpasses made wide enough to cater for 8 lanes beneath them & protective barries all could be extended to cater for future increase in traffic les chance of them being damaged and a 6 lane leeway for vehicles running out of their no trees no poles to hit apert from barriers 60 to 80 meters away then when that time comes it's only the road surface that needs doing saving billions to the tax payer America does this right as far as roads go their suburban streets are 3 times as wide as ours their freeways are 300 meters across with a 80 meter between north and south bound lanes trees within 50 to 80 meters from the outside edges of their new roads. Australian government has this stupid saying that country people get killed on country roads yes because they hit unmoveable objects namely trees. We are a throw away society that's another reason nothing lasts Why build another wooden house in tornado alley. Why do structures built by smart men a 100 years ago still stand today. It blows my mind

Mascot Towers is not a catastrophe, but just brilliand illustration for GREED! Nothing collapsed there even for now, but all owners lost their money. Problem is that in Australia you can not just foreclosure mortgage and go ahead free, if your building lost value - you are in deep debt and no way out. And insurance is so insurance, it never works here. The same with Opal tower. Our tech manager installed there new firmware to intercom... and next day it cracked for 15 floors out of 35. Residents were kicked out and returned mostly in half a year.

Has this building colapsed, No, its still there and will not fall, its authorities crying Wolf, and government allowing builders to get away with highway robbery over and over again

The question is: Why did Council allow the DA to be passed. Who would build on swamp land anyway, no matter how many tonnes of cement filled in the excavation cavity, doil that was taken out in the first place transformed the mass of geological density. The surrounding soil mass would continue to move and settle. Developers make these apartments look so delightful but the prospective buyer never gets to see the short cuts taken.

Yet the Mascot building is still there all this time later . Really doubt anything will ever happen there. Neither will it fall nor will the government take responsibility for its shady deals with developers .

Regarding the Mascot Towers. The CFMEU now has the balls to demand that construction workers be paid a base salary of $240k. Look at the quality of construction in Australia both residential and commercial. It's disgusting. $240k for a menial job.

it was built to the code of that times

The major problem is the Engineers . Here in Australia they are not help accountable for there mistakes . They make things so complicated to makes them look smart . Never meet a smart Engineer yet

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Arecebo was a discusting loss Honestly why was that bridge made from steel in the first place

dont they ring train wheels daily anymore ?

Nobody guilty of any wrongdoing ,that happen all the time ,just the residentes back luck

Yes not the Sydney Center Point tower but a residential building so no real story herr

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'Fuzzing out' the views of Las Vegas' street signs was just silly and unnecessary. I have never seen this done before and so presume that this was your decision. My apologies if I am wrong!

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Yeah but mascot is fukn swamp land lol same for eastlakes and Rosebery lol.

Stop headlining with a fake title. The Sydney Tower is never in any problem...it's engineering is fine. A Sydney apartment complex did sink but it was a privately owned smaller building...

With Sydney, it is west african/middle eastern corruption that takes some of the reinforcing steel from a checked and certified floor and carries it to the next floor. It is a risk to buy a building in Sydney built after 1985 - that's when they immigrated.

Every building every road every important structure, processing plant should have backups in place. A cell tower goes down leaving people with phones, internet lines are damaged businesses, hospitals, doctors, emergency workers, all unable to operate your unable to shop buy your groceries heaven help us in the 3rd world war it will be every man woman & child for themselves while politicians and rich will all be hiding deep underground in structures we built for them with our money.

You said that the Sydney Tower's fell. That turns out to be clickbait, so I have to give you a thumbs down for lying ! Aarre Peltomaa

Australia is not capable of building top quality standard buildings. Just do a web search and there are more than a dozen balcony collapse incidents. Some are very serious and incurred loss of lives. Australia is moving backwards as far as building construction is concern. Very shameful for a so call modern or developed country.

What a load of bullshit