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Civil engineering & construction Videos Recommended on Hacker News (70)

Civil engineering & construction is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 70 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 148 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Civil engineering: bridges, dams, skyscrapers, tunnels, building construction, infrastructure failures, structural engineering, architecture engineering, Practical Engineering, megaprojects.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]: “This video from the Not Just Bikes channel shows the stark difference between a street and a road” — an HN commenter, 2021.

2 mo on HN

Infrastructure: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HN

Are NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?

ADVChina
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)

About Here
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HN

Blower Door Test

Matt Risinger
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower?

Practical Engineering
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 46 : Five-over-Ones

Well There's Your Problem Podcast
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

Amazing: The Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze (Documentary)

PECG
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Commie Blocks Are Pretty Good, Actually

Adam Something
1 HN recommend · 2022–2024
1 mo on HN

8LU - Are we *really* engineers? by Hillel Wayne

8th Light Inc.
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

Fire test: wooden house vs. ordinary house

Paulius Milčius
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HN

BBC How They Dug the Victoria Line

Graham W
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

30-story building built in 15 days! Construction time lapse of J57, Changsha, China.

AI+R
1 HN recommend · 2012–2015
1 mo on HN

日本の家作り(据え付け作業)Japan builds house in 1 day

Rachel and Jun
1 HN recommend · 2016–2021
1 mo on HN

If these pumps ever stop, part of Germany floods.

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

Passive House - Fresh Air System Install & Costs (Zehnder)

Matt Risinger
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

The Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2017–2021
1 mo on HN

What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?

Practical Engineering
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HN

How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)

Practical Engineering
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

How the pyramids were built in Egypt

Geopolymer Institute
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

Practical Engineering
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
0 mo on HN

The wings on this Airbus flex way more than they should

Insider
0 HN recommender · 2018–2025
0 mo on HN

Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists

BicycleDutch
0 HN recommender · 2016–2022
0 mo on HN

Blasting down bad track Doubleheader on the ND&W Railway (Maumee and Western)

Scott Taipale
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026
0 mo on HN

The HYPERLOOP Will Never Work, Here's Why

Adam Something
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HN

Total Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall - Additional Camera Angles

What You Haven't Seen
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HN

Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé

British Pathé
0 HN recommender · 2015–2026
0 mo on HN

Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic

National Geographic
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11)

City of Cupertino
0 HN recommender · 2011–2020
0 mo on HN

The Energy Vault is a Dumb Idea, Here's Why

Adam Something
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HN

An elevator that actually goes sideways

Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HN

Margin Call (5/9) Movie CLIP - A Bridge (2011) HD

Movieclips
0 HN recommender · 2021–2023
0 mo on HN

3D-Printed Home Can Be Constructed For Under $4,000

Insider Tech
0 HN recommender · 2018–2019
0 mo on HN

Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster

The Onion
0 HN recommender · 2021–2023