Embarrassing Moments in Engineering

By Miss Cellania in Architecture, Mentalfloss on Apr 10, 2008 at 9:47 am

Don’t you just hate it when you spend millions of dollars for a large construction, only to find out there is something fundamentally wrong underneath? Oh yeah, especially when the failure becomes apparent during a big public grand opening. It happens, and mental_floss has a look at four cases of embarrassing (and expensive) mistakes in huge projects. Link

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tabest
Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:58 am
You’re Fired!!
empty-minded
Apr 10th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I hope the project manager cashed his last paycheck before total systems failure.
Christophe
Apr 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Don’t forget the slab of concrete that fell on a car in Boston’s Big Dig.
CheeseDuck
Apr 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Ouch.
Thomas
Apr 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I’d never heard of the japanese airport on the water. Neat idea, but seems doomed to fail.
Alannah
Apr 11th, 2008 at 12:57 am
LeMessurier had a hell of a lot of guts and probably saved a whole lot of lives. Good man.
Will
Apr 13th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
As an aside, the design flaw that doomed the Tacoma Narrows bridge recently inspired budding inventor Shawn Frayne to conceive the Wind Belt concept for harnessing wind energy. I encourage tinkerers, greenies and the like to look it up and check it out.

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