Is Your Architecture a Marvel or a Disaster?
Two of my favorite streaming shows are Engineering Marvels and Engineering Disasters.
Engineering Marvels “reveals the extraordinary feats of engineering inside the world’s most spectacular man-made constructions.” Each episode identifies significant challenges and showcases how innovative engineering design and execution overcame them.
Engineering Disasters takes the opposite tack, with each episode examining something that went seriously wrong, such as a bridge failure, a dam rupture, or a building collapse. Generally, these were due to errors of omission caused by unforeseen factors that the engineers failed to consider or errors of commission where missed requirements, incorrect assumptions, mistaken calculations, or faulty materials led to a catastrophic outcome.
Read the full article by Robert Eve, via Solutions Review.
