PickVidsBest Civil engineering & construction Videos
The 70 Civil engineering & construction videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 2 intermediate, 65 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Practical Engineering, Tom Scott, Kirsten Dirksen.
30-story building built in 15 days! Construction time lapse of J57, Changsha, China.
Time-lapse of Broad Group erecting a 30-story prefabricated hotel (J57) in Changsha, China in about 15 days.
日本の家作り（据え付け作業）Japan builds house in 1 day
Rachel and Jun film Toyota Home Aichi installing a prefabricated house unit in Japan, with the assembly and roof waterproofing completed in about half a day.
If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods.
Tom Scott explains how decades of deep coal mining sank parts of Germany's Ruhr Valley and changed its drainage.
Passive House - Fresh Air System Install & Costs (Zehnder)
Matt Risinger covers installing a Zehnder ERV fresh-air system in a tight passive house, explaining balanced ventilation, the benefits of heat recovery and the costs involved.
The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
A Tom Scott guest video by Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering on the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
Practical Engineering summarizes the 2017 Oroville Dam spillway failure, explaining the engineering details behind the incident.
How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)
Practical Engineering explains how engineers and agencies put a dollar value on a human life to weigh cost against safety.
How the pyramids were built in Egypt
The Geopolymer Institute presents Joseph Davidovits's theory that the Egyptian pyramids were built from cast artificial limestone, a geopolymer concrete, rather than carved blocks.
Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
Practical Engineering explains how continuous welded rail copes with thermal expansion by restraining it, using the relationship between temperature, stress and strain.
The wings on this Airbus flex way more than they should
A one-minute clip from Insider showing an Airbus airliner's wings flexing far more than most people expect during a wing load test.
Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists
A short BicycleDutch episode showing how Dutch junctions with protected cycle paths are laid out.
Blasting down bad track Doubleheader on the ND&W Railway (Maumee and Western)
Footage of a doubleheader of locomotives crawling over badly maintained track on a former Wabash Railroad line, now the ND&W Railway.
The HYPERLOOP Will Never Work, Here's Why
Adam Something argues that the Hyperloop is impractical, covering the costs and engineering problems of running trains in a near vacuum compared with conventional rail and metros.
Total Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall - Additional Camera Angles
Additional camera angles of the 1988 Sandia National Laboratories rocket-sled test in which an F-4 Phantom was crashed at about 500 mph into a block of reinforced concrete.
Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé
Short British Pathe newsreel footage of the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as it twisted and swayed in the wind.
Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
A one-minute National Geographic clip of researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo testing a theory that Easter Islanders used ropes to rock the moai statues upright to walk them to their platforms.
Steve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11)
Steve Jobs presents Apple's proposal for a new campus to the Cupertino City Council in June 2011, answering council members' questions about the plan.
The Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why
Adam Something argues in four minutes that gravity batteries like Energy Vault, which lift concrete blocks with cranes, are a poor energy storage idea.
An elevator that actually goes sideways
Tom Scott visits ThyssenKrupp's test tower in Rottweil to see the Multi, a rope-free elevator that uses linear motors to move cabins sideways as well as vertically.
Margin Call (5/9) Movie CLIP - A Bridge (2011) HD
A Margin Call clip in which Will Emerson tries to persuade Eric Dale to return to the firm, and Dale recounts calculating the lifetimes saved by a bridge he helped build.
3D-Printed Home Can Be Constructed For Under $4,000
A short Insider Tech video on New Story and ICON building 3D-printed homes that can go up in under 24 hours for around $4,000.
Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
An Onion News Network satirical segment about a memorial dedicated to the future victims of a dam that officials know will fail.