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Engineering Catastrophes

Experts look at engineering blunders that have either caused catastrophes or are disasters waiting to happen. They use cutting-edge technology to examine what went wrong and to figure out if they can be fixed.
20186 episodes
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Stadium Disaster
    April 5, 2018
    42min
    TV-PG
    Air is all that supports a stadium roof in snowy Syracuse, New York. A drawbridge in Chile gets some key details backwards, and a metro line in congested Mexico City has some potentially disastrous design flaws.
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  2. S1 E2 - Peril at the Airport
    April 12, 2018
    42min
    TV-PG
    A towering symbol of Glasgow can't endure the windy Scottish weather, and a Japanese airport is slowly sinking into the sea. In Venice, Italy, a so-called pedestrian bridge is a slip-and-fall accident waiting to happen.
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  3. S1 E3 - Leaning Towers of Terror
    April 19, 2018
    42min
    TV-PG
    Serious construction shortcuts spell disaster at a Turkish ski resort, and hundreds of buildings lean perilously over a Brazilian city. Also, Mexico City's sewer system is overwhelmed by the subsiding metropolis.
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  4. S1 E4 - Death Ray Skyscraper
    April 26, 2018
    42min
    TV-PG
    A missed measurement imperils a pedestrian bridge in Calgary, Canada, and reflections off an office building in London can fry eggs in the street. Also, a stadium in Malaysia suffers repeated disasters.
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  5. S1 E5 - Disaster in Vegas
    May 3, 2018
    42min
    TV-PG
    Wind turbines off the coast of Denmark can't handle the elements, and signs in Argentina point drivers down a road to nowhere after a tunnel collapses. Also, a hotel in Las Vegas is so unsafe it never opened.
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  6. S1 E6 - Holes from Hell
    May 10, 2018
    42min
    TV-PG
    Louisiana has the most poorly-engineered roads in America, and improvements to Australia's busiest railway line made things much worse. Also, tunneling projects cause major problems in Italy and Seattle.
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English
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English [CC]
Starring
Jason Dietz
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