YouTube description: The Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months ago • 1,280 views • 8:24

YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,035 views • 8:15

YouTube description: A quick overview of how we build underwater structures.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 week ago • 427 views • 8:18

YouTube description: Rising to a height of 1.3 kilometres, Dubai Creek Tower is set to become the tallest man-made structure in history. For more by The B1M subscribe now: http://ow.ly/GxW7y Read... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 693 views • 4:56

YouTube description: In an effort to retain heritage, reduce waste and overcome the challenge of finding sites in urban areas, architects, engineers and developers are breathing new life into existing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 628 views • 7:15

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 441 views • 4:19

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 449 views • 9:29

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 426 views • 10:05

YouTube description: From the dynamic Choy Li Fut martial art—made world famous by Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee—to the stunning dragon dance, Pun Keng Man takes great pride in building community through... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 259 views • 3:18

YouTube description: Joe Barnard left his background in videography and music production to launch his life of amateur rocketry, and he shares his DIY adventures in building rockets on his YouTube channel... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 915 views • 9:36

https://www.theb1m.com/video/the-worlds-most-remote-buildings

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,297 views • 10:45

This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading

posted by nanrod 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 528 views • 12:48

YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 138 views • 2:56

YouTube description: We take a field trip to the 2018 Summer Steam-up, an annual gathering of hobbyists who build and operate model trains with working steam engines! Tested meets up with two model... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 335 views • 14:32

We talked to the co-founder of Tesla, JB Straubel, about why giant batteries are crucial to the future of power grids everywhere. Batteries are becoming more useful at powering bigger things like bikes,... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 498 views • 6:15

YouTube description: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 824 views • 4:53

A low-tech tank with fragile armour, a tank that never saw the enemy, and the tank used to teach how not to build tanks.

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 74 views • 8:50

YouTube description: How do you cool a building without air conditioning? Using an approach called biomimicry, see how architect Mick Pearce harnessed the ingenuity of termites to design a natural cooling... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 583 views • 3:42

At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months ago • 406 views • 7:08