El rascacielos de Texas que se HUNDIÓ recién terminado… y hubo que VOLARLO
CONSTRUCTUM
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In 2006, construction began on the most ambitious building on the entire coast of South Padre Island, Texas: a 31-story tower with 151 luxury apartments facing the Gulf of Mexico. It never opened. Before completion, its core had sunk 40 centimeters into the ground, the beams and columns were cracked, and the $65 million already spent could not be recovered.
This video explains why the Ocean Tower collapsed and why the only way to finish it was to demolish it with explosives. We'll see the foundation of 801 piles that seemed impossible to move, the layer of clay that no one saw beneath the sand, the differential settlement that destroyed the structure from within, the $125 million lawsuit that ultimately went nowhere, and the controlled demolition that set a world record: the tallest reinforced concrete building ever brought down with explosives.
Forensic Engineering in Spanish: What Fails, Why It Fails, and What It Teaches Us.
CHAPTERS
00:00 A Skyscraper That Never Opened
01:56 The South Padre Dream
03:53 The Invisible Part: 801 Piles
05:33 The Cracks and the Glass Simile
07:40 The $125 Million Lawsuit
09:28 Repair or Abandon?
10:51 The impossible demolition
13:56 December 13, 2009
15:50 What really destroyed her
IMAGE CREDITS
Skyline of South Padre Island, SPI skyline — Theunderratedtaco (CC BY-SA 4.0)
An aerial view of South Padre Island with people parked and driving on the beach — Matthew T Rader (CC BY-SA 4.0)
South Padre Island — Satx usa (CC BY-SA 4.0)
City of spi, palms and skyline — Chenarr (CC BY-SA 4.0)
South Padre Island Sunset 2024 — 8bit12man (CC BY-SA 4.0)
From-Port-Isabel Lighthouse — Valerie Bates (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Laguna Madre — Terry Ross (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Dust Cloud — David Richards, West Haven, CT (CC BY 2.0)
South Padre Island beach — DRAMOS19 (CC BY 2.0)
Rippled sand, South Padre Island — Stuart Seeger (CC BY 2.0)
Entrance to South Padre Island — Shannon247 (public domain)
Padre Island National Seashore, fishing in Laguna Madre — Johntex (public domain)
Cinergy Field Implosion — ShelbyBell (public domain)
FEMA 37263, A home damaged by Hurricane Dolly on South Padre Island — Barry Bahler (public domain)
Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
CASE IMAGES (cited with on-screen credit)
Photograph of structural damage — Walter P Moore, forensic engineering case
Photographs of the tower prepared for demolition — Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Construction and implosion photos from December 13, 2009 — A Geotechnical Engineer's Blog
VIDEO CREDITS
Implosion footage from December 13, 2009 — Will Carlson (CC BY) Ocean tower-2009-12-13-08-59-07
DOCUMENTS
Memorandum Opinion, US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas (case 13-07026, 2014) — public domain, govinfo.gov
#engineering #construction #texas
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El rascacielos de Texas que se HUNDIÓ recién terminado… y hubo que VOLARLO
CONSTRUCTUM
253,600 views
In 2006, construction began on the most ambitious building on the entire coast of South Padre Island, Texas: a 31-story tower with 151 luxury apartments facing the Gulf of Mexico. It never opened. Before completion, its core had sunk 40 centimeters into the ground, the beams and columns were cracked, and the $65 million already spent could not be recovered.
This video explains why the Ocean Tower collapsed and why the only way to finish it was to demolish it with explosives. We'll see the foundation of 801 piles that seemed impossible to move, the layer of clay that no one saw beneath the sand, the differential settlement that destroyed the structure from within, the $125 million lawsuit that ultimately went nowhere, and the controlled demolition that set a world record: the tallest reinforced concrete building ever brought down with explosives.
Forensic Engineering in Spanish: What Fails, Why It Fails, and What It Teaches Us.
CHAPTERS
00:00 A Skyscraper That Never Opened
01:56 The South Padre Dream
03:53 The Invisible Part: 801 Piles
05:33 The Cracks and the Glass Simile
07:40 The $125 Million Lawsuit
09:28 Repair or Abandon?
10:51 The impossible demolition
13:56 December 13, 2009
15:50 What really destroyed her
IMAGE CREDITS
Skyline of South Padre Island, SPI skyline — Theunderratedtaco (CC BY-SA 4.0)
An aerial view of South Padre Island with people parked and driving on the beach — Matthew T Rader (CC BY-SA 4.0)
South Padre Island — Satx usa (CC BY-SA 4.0)
City of spi, palms and skyline — Chenarr (CC BY-SA 4.0)
South Padre Island Sunset 2024 — 8bit12man (CC BY-SA 4.0)
From-Port-Isabel Lighthouse — Valerie Bates (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Laguna Madre — Terry Ross (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Dust Cloud — David Richards, West Haven, CT (CC BY 2.0)
South Padre Island beach — DRAMOS19 (CC BY 2.0)
Rippled sand, South Padre Island — Stuart Seeger (CC BY 2.0)
Entrance to South Padre Island — Shannon247 (public domain)
Padre Island National Seashore, fishing in Laguna Madre — Johntex (public domain)
Cinergy Field Implosion — ShelbyBell (public domain)
FEMA 37263, A home damaged by Hurricane Dolly on South Padre Island — Barry Bahler (public domain)
Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
CASE IMAGES (cited with on-screen credit)
Photograph of structural damage — Walter P Moore, forensic engineering case
Photographs of the tower prepared for demolition — Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Construction and implosion photos from December 13, 2009 — A Geotechnical Engineer's Blog
VIDEO CREDITS
Implosion footage from December 13, 2009 — Will Carlson (CC BY) Ocean tower-2009-12-13-08-59-07
DOCUMENTS
Memorandum Opinion, US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas (case 13-07026, 2014) — public domain, govinfo.gov
#engineering #construction #texas
Si el edificio sólo se inclina, se puede enderezar, pero si la estructura está quebrada, hay que demoler, aunque ponerse a Demoler son Ganas de Moler... 😁😁😁.