worlds biggest fish tank fail

[motorbiking]

Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes

Two people are injured as the Berlin aquarium, containing a million litres of water, bursts open.

www.bbc.co.uk

I always wonder how the architects design and test these structures. There are quite a few roof top swimming pools that overhang buildings that must surely have similar design challenges.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes

Two people are injured as the Berlin aquarium, containing a million litres of water, bursts open.

www.bbc.co.uk

I always wonder how the architects design and test these structures. There are quite a few roof top swimming pools that overhang buildings that must surely have similar design challenges.

The old saying 'our life in their hands' is true on a daily basis. We trust that architectural and engineering designs and the materials used to create them are all fit for purpose. Unfortunately when things do go wrong, it can often be catastrophic failure.

 

[Stivino]

1,000 tonnes of water plus the weight of the glass etc. Whooosh!

 

[Notch7]

fish are worse off in the EU

 

[motorbiking]

Here's another that I would not be wanting a swim in:

 

[Ihavenojob]

Acrylic, not glass.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Here's another that I would not be wanting a swim in:

Yeah you wouldn't get me near that! Mind you, I do the glass walk thing at Blackpool Tower, have a mate that point blank refuses. Maybe he's the sensible one!

 

[Stivino]

Acrylic, not glass.

Wotevva.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Wotevva.

Standard lazy journalism. They should have built it with transparent aluminium.

 

[Stivino]

Standard lazy journalism. They should have built it with transparent aluminium.

Bl00dy good idea.

 

[jeds]

I always wonder how the architects design and test these structures.

At the risk of sounding a bit glib, I can guarantee you that architects design and test nowt to do with structures like this, they defer to specialists.

So, how do big tank structure type specialists go about designing and testing these big tank type structures? Good question. I hope this particular big tank specialist has got some decent pi insurance though.

 

[Old Salt]

It looks to be out of warranty, installed in 2003 and modernised in 2020. Article hints that it may have been the cold so force majeur in good insurance company fall back position.

 

[johnny2007]

Must've been designed by an engineer tenant of one of my former customers.
Amongst other silly jobs, I was asked to change lightbulbs.
WTF!?!?
He could not change a lightbulb!
A civil engineer designing bridges and road structures.
I deliberately overcharged the customer and told him to find normal tenants, not halfwit imbecils.
God help us!

 

[motorbiking]

Quite a few glass roofed buildings have problems with the panels falling out, but that is more due to the solar gain stretching the frame and then the panel shrinking back at night. An office I used to work at had the roof fall in at 2AM.

 

[Dork Lard]

Should've got the Victorians to build it.