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Massive Engineering Mistakes

Humans have been building for more than 10,000 years - we're engineering experts and yet every year, tales emerge of construction calamites from all over the world. From the extraordinary to the ridiculous, this series uncovers the epic fails and near misses engineers would rather not talk about. We analyse what went wrong with each building blunder.
201810 episodes7+
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  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1
    April 4, 2018
    45min
    7+
    Humans have been building for more than ten thousand years - we're engineering experts and yet every year, tales emerge of construction calamites from all over the world. From the extraordinary to the ridiculous, this series uncovers the epic fails and near misses engineers would rather not talk about. We analyse what went wrong with each building blunder.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2
    April 11, 2018
    45min
    7+
    In downtown San Francisco, what's causing a skyscraper to sink?
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode 3
    April 18, 2018
    45min
    7+
    What brought a Pennsylvania railroad bridge to its knees?
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  4. S1 E4 - Episode 4
    April 25, 2018
    45min
    7+
    Downtown Chicago is in the grip of an engineering emergency.
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  5. S1 E5 - Episode 5
    May 2, 2018
    45min
    7+
    In Dallas, a shining skyscraper is dazzling its neighbours, but why?
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  6. S1 E6 - Episode 6
    May 9, 2018
    45min
    7+
    Over a hundred thousand people evacuate their homes, as America's tallest dam struggles to hold back storm waters.
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  7. S1 E7 - Episode 7
    May 16, 2018
    45min
    7+
    An age-old engineering catastrophe is causing Baltimore's sewers to back up.
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  8. S1 E8 - Episode 8
    May 23, 2018
    45min
    7+
    Bolts the size of an arm fall from a London skyscraper, but what's causing them to crack?
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  9. S1 E9 - Episode 9
    May 30, 2018
    45min
    7+
    America's first space station, Skylab, was nearly destroyed on launch, then fell back to Earth.
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  10. S1 E10 - Episode 10
    June 6, 2018
    45min
    7+
    Thousands gather to watch two apartment blocks get blown to the ground, but one tower refused to fall.
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Subtitles
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Directors
Joel TinkerJames HowardWayne Derrick
Cast
Greg SzulgitSimon Foster
Studio
BriteSpark Films
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