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Jan 12, 2022 · Genoa Bridge of Tragedy: A tragic bridge collapse takes down a symbolic crossing and becomes one of Italy's deadliest engineering disasters; experts investigate and uncover years of slow deterioration to the structure's heavily corroded concrete encased cables.
- Documentary
- 60
- 2022-01-12
Oct 8, 2021 · Doomed from the Start: With Rob Bell, Luke Bisby, Davide Capello, Daniel Dickrell. Italy suffers one of the worst engineering disasters when the Morandi bridge suddenly collapses; examining what failures of a Brazilian dam, a Manila high rise, and a building in Jerusalem reveal about the collapse.
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- 2021-10-08
- History, Reality-TV
- 40
May 23, 2023 · An Italian trial into the 2018 Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43 people has heard it was known for years there was a risk it might collapse. "I didn't do anything and it's my greatest regret ...
Aug 3, 2020 · Genoa readies new bridge two years after tragic collapse. Renzo Piano peers up at his creation - an elegant sweep of steel and concrete spanning more than a kilometre. "When you finish a job there ...
- 3 min
- Mark Lowen
- The dam was built during Italy’s postwar boom. The construction of the Vajont Dam was undertaken during the postwar boom in Italy, which is also known as the Italian economic miracle by historians.
- Warnings about the construction were ignored. Vajont Dam was built to create a reservoir from a mountain stream in order to generate hydroelectric power.
- The disaster started with a landslide. Towards the end of construction, a landslide behind the dam began to seem inevitable. However, the impact and size of the landslide were vastly underestimated.
- The ensuing wave destroyed entire villages. The enormous wave caused flash flooding in the Piave valley, below the dam, and destroyed the villages of Longarone, Pirago, Rivalta, Villanova and Faè.
Engineering Catastrophes Series 5 Part 8 Genoa Bridge of Tragedy The Genoa bridge collapse takes down a symbolic crossing and becomes one of Italy's deadliest engineering disasters; experts investigate and uncover years of slow deterioration to the structure's heavily corroded concrete-encased cables.
Stream Engineering Catastrophes (2022) online with DIRECTV The Genoa bridge collapse takes down a symbolic crossing and becomes one of Italy's deadliest engineering disasters; experts investigate and uncover years of slow deterioration to the structure's heavily corroded concrete encased cables.
