Massive Engineering Mistakes

West, Texas is a small rustic farming town that could have been lifted straight from a John Ford film. One day disaster struck when the local fertilizer factory burst into flames.

A violent earthquake wreaks havoc on an iconic bridge in San Francisco. Experts are using the latest science to uncover a weakened expansion joint caused by catastrophic shock waves.

New York City is one of the largest construction markets in the US, and towering cranes are a part of the iconic skyline. One day, a crane carrying out upgrades on a twenty five storey tower was buffeted by strong winds.

The Almuñecár bridge is a key link in Spain's highway, which connects cities along its Mediterranean coast.

The double arches of the Hernando De Soto Bridge are a Mississippi icon, carrying I-40 - one of the nation's busiest freight corridors - over the mighty river.

Corpus Christi is a major crude oil-hub comprising six refineries. During a routine dredging operation, a forty centimetre wide underwater pipeline was severed, releasing a geyser of propane.

When it opened in the thirties, Vienna's Reichsbrücke was an incredible feat of civil engineering, a more than five hundred metre long magnificent chain bridge supported by two thirty metre high pylons.

A large scale earthquake rocked Christchurch, sending violent shockwaves through the city. Amidst the chaos, one building failed more catastrophically than the rest.

The Rocky Mountain National Park is famed for its majestic landscapes and towering mountains. Lawn Lake Dam enlarged a natural lake into a reservoir at an almost three thousand metre elevation.

The vast Trans-Canada highway is the only road connecting Eastern and Western Canada.