Construction Fails - Episode Guide

Construction fails happen every day, but sometimes the damage is catastrophic. Investigate the most spectacular mishaps - and how the disaster could have been averted.

How Notre Dame cathedral caught fire despite state-of-the-art smoke detection equipment. Plus, is there such a thing as an earthquake-proof building?

Glass is one of the most versatile materials in the construction world. It's both practical and beautiful, but when it fails, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Urban construction relies on two types of cranes to hoist the next high-rise - but when they fail, they make one big mess. Plus, discover the bad side of escalators.

Tunnels are engineering marvels, cutting through the landscape and creating direct routes - until they cave in. Plus, a sudden bridge collapse in Miami.

Asbestos was a product that seemed too good to be true - because it was. Meanwhile, in New York, two buildings explode sending debris flying through the streets.

A ship breaks a Baltimore bridge, a Dutch stadium loses its top, and a Manhattan crane catches fire. Plus, a crooked English pub and a 'poonami' in China.

Earthquake-proof buildings fall down in Turkey, two gantry cranes bump into each other, a battery factory blows up, and a bridge collapses in Dresden.

An overpass on Philadelphia's busy Interstate 95 highway sets ablaze after a tanker truck rollover

Take a tour of the world's most expensive and useless airports and learn why a Shanghai apartment tower dropped like a slab.

Lightning bolts cause construction mayhem, cities all over the world are sinking, cooling towers are collapsing, and India's bridges are falling down.

Featuring an Italian supermarket collapse, amusement parks ablaze, India's tunnel rescue, a light rail fail and a roofless stadium.

A highway bridge collapse sparks a probe into hidden structural flaws from sinking roads to a leaning skyscraper.

Brace for disaster as highways fall, bridges collapse and buildings crumble in a global tour of shocking engineering failures.

Brace for disaster as dams fail, buildings collapse and engineers race to stop towering structures from falling apart.

Investigators try to work out why the only Bangkok building to collapse in an earthquake was the newest one. Plus, a devastating Danish fire and a deadly wind from a tall tower.

An oversized billboard falls in Mumbai, too much snow collapses roofs in Minnesota, São Paulo subway tunnels cave in, and eerie 'ghost-scrapers' remain unfinished.

Investigation into sudden structural disasters as floods, fires, eruptions and collapses expose deadly failures in design, weather and engineering.