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@nyengster Says:
Biggest crime, was tearing down the old church.
@MassFreedomLover Says:
This story is a good example of why the Romans forced builders to sleep under their structures.
@ItBePolicy Says:
11:00, 15:00 bolts instead of welds to save cost created the danger. Gross.
@Ok_Taste_2097 Says:
How can you expand such a small question to half an hour?
@FordWinchester Says:
Why didn’t they build the old church ⛪️ again.
@FordWinchester Says:
That’s horrifying.
@brianl1440 Says:
All I can say is the Empire state building is 95 years old and still standing.
@banktun.8549 Says:
ดีจัง มีเสียงภาษาไทยด้วย😊
@HedzerTails Says:
21:53 This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Skyscrapers in NYC fall straight down on to themselves. I learned that in Sept. 2001.
@AcarboseHealth Says:
Amazing. ❤🎉
@valiantvanadium6996 Says:
There have been pagodas in Japan for over 1000 years. Only 8 have ever collapsed. A lot use techniques similar to the damper and bracing. There is nothing new under the sun.
@dewaard3301 Says:
He should have said nothing, and just short the construction company the night before a major storm from the right direction.
@orangewarm1 Says:
everyone is so risk averse these days -- to negative stories that could affect the bottom line -- rents.
@olafseidel6635 Says:
Der Schönste Citycorb Center
@kenboydart Says:
Hubris
@JDorrberg Says:
Zuviele sachliche Fehler im deutschen Text.
@CharlesLouisRosario Says:
Literally cutting corners. Ridiculous design.
@bkim7000 Says:
Putting the building in stilts sounds like the dumbest idea ever
@Mtlmshr Says:
I heard about this years ago and I must give that engineer credit for taking responsibility and then taking action to fix the problem at hand.
@crumblehumble Says:
> anonymous student
come on
@wokshuh Says:
the biggest error here was deciding to remove the old gothic church instead of restoring its original design Zzzz
@jaybefaulky4902 Says:
the student was a woman named Dianne Heartly
@Takahanazawa Says:
28:10 what's a tin God
@Takahanazawa Says:
20:14 why did he think about killing himself in a way that damages infrastructure lmfao.
@icsn3 Says:
Thanks!
@chrisduncan2626 Says:
Id prefer the Gothic style church still being there instead of history being erased............but its a good thing that he realized there was an issue....maybe because the church was there he had a dream, who knows 🤷🏻♂️
@cogitoergospud1 Says:
Kudos to Bill for stepping forward.
@susanhaas3179 Says:
The student was a woman, yes? Seems that info was lost ...
@LeonNobles Says:
What about earthquakes
@TineBeo Says:
Owning your mistakes. A foreign concept in todays fake news World I'm afraid. To err is human, to forgive divine. I'll add, to remedy noble.
@Neil-yh8uu Says:
The ancients lived in circular huts because wind passes round rather than straight into a face or corners
Perhaps the new architects would use this again ,or is it that a circular building lasts longer,needs less maintenance,handles weather easier, or are they square for price per square foot make money from space in unused footage
@ConstructionFiles.9 Says:
Accepting whats wrong take a character which can save countless lives, we need more of that
@wap69692 Says:
18:53 67
@AJ-jc7sl Says:
Boeing is doing this cost cutting thing while manufacturing their planes
@SergeantMalaise Says:
replace the "old crumbling gothic church" with that brutalist monstrosity? this is why we can't have nice things...
@pnadh2 Says:
32:31 👍
@ramblingfool9220 Says:
great video
@sunriseboy4837 Says:
LeMessurier's name ought to be pronounced - LeMessyooreeay!
@jaypoling9147 Says:
Fascinating
@user-ke1km9bt4s Says:
👋 I commend the engineer and all who owned up to the error and acted immediately. I know the bldg and church in its "shade" as I lived in New York. The fact that bolts were used instead of the welding was a major error. It was truly hair raising that a student's questions were the whistle to the catastrophic possibility of collapse., This discovery was heaven sent. Good job everyone. That was the right way to go. And since on my part I'm a Believer.., I also add : thanks Lord, the tragedy was averted., believers or not bless every body dear master of heaven's and earth.🙏✌️
@walterhernandez9867 Says:
If the Columbia Disaster SRB designer Morton Thiokol was the contractor the would have blamed the collapse of the building on a hit by a bird over a faulty brick at 20 degrees farenheit...
@ombhetwal7121 Says:
why didnt he use the wind tunnel first, what a fing assh?
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@nothing-alt.m Says:
was you with stark when this video came out 8:01
im a year late
@tonytonytony1967 Says:
$4M repair 😂 the welding outfits would charge $400M these days without a doubt
@FalenAnjel2 Says:
It is also why you need to have the engineer sign off on changes even small ones. Welding change should have been told.
@garypippenger202 Says:
I'm glad the industry saw this as an opportunity to teach the disciplines involved about the CitiCorp building case. It well illustrates how complex the factors are when solutions are devised for novel building challenges, and how we must plan for the human element always.. I wonder if AI could be used to routinely supplement the reviews and analyses invovled.
@clopyify Says:
👍
@marksman48 Says:
Today, AI would have caught it.Why AI Would Likely Catch It
Systematic Load Case Checking
Modern structural engineering AI/tools (finite element analysis + automated load generators) would run all relevant wind directions as standard, including 45-degree increments. Today's building codes and software (like ETABS, SAP2000, or advanced parametric tools) don't let you easily "forget" quartering winds the way 1970s manual/hand-calculator methods did.
Change Management Detection
AI-integrated BIM (Building Information Modeling) systems flag discrepancies between design intent and as-built conditions. A switch from welded to bolted connections on critical braces would trigger automatic warnings about reduced capacity, especially if connected to wind tunnel data.
Holistic Simulation
Current AI can:
Run thousands of wind scenarios quickly (including directionality, turbulence, and climate data).
@giordanoa.avellanedaa.5746 Says:
this was the video that made me unsubscribe , weak civil engineering explanations...
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