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Practical Engineering is all about infrastructure and the human-made world around us. It is hosted, written, and produced by civil engineer, Grady Hillhouse. We have new videos posted every first and third Tuesday, so please subscribe for updates.

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16:11

Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?

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20:04

This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse

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16:29

All Dams Are Temporary

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20:19

A Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges

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13:10

What’s Inside a Manhole?

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22:20

Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?

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20:48

The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction

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16:56

The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

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13:31

What’s the Deal with Base Plates?

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23:17

Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?

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Shared 4 months ago

594K views

19:48

Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?

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1:36:35

1.5 Years of Heavy Construction in 1.5 Hours

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20:10

The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure

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19:38

Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?

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15:08

When Infrastructure Gets Hacked

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Shared 6 months ago

659K views

17:04

The Hidden Engineering of Landfills

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13:18

Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall?

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16:41

How French Drains Work

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16:27

When Natural Gas Had No Smell

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17:30

Why Bridges Don't Sink

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22:11

This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapsed

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22:07

The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid

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17:36

Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes

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28:45

How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions

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18:48

Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think

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16:18

Why Fish Ladders (Mostly) Work

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17:12

How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works

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22:22

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15:33

How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad

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16:18

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20:12

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17:48

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13:17

How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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15:53

Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints

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19:56

Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

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18:11

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5

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14:35

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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4

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530K views

14:53

Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?

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24:14

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3

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496K views

16:59

Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes

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20:37

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2

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563K views

16:39

Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?

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19:25

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 1

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705K views

17:21

Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes

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19:36

Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?

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16:54

Philadelphia I-95 Bridge Collapse Explained

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20:32

Why Is Desalination So Difficult?

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14:44

Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?

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13:54

How Flood Tunnels Work

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16:44

What Really Happened During the Gas Explosions in the Merrimack Valley?

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17:08

How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)

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657K views

17:28

East Palestine Train Derailment Explained

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15:53

Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers

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18:41

Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget

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17:48

Why Rivers Move

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The Only State Capital Where You Can’t Drink the Water

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15:53

Why Some Roads Are Made of Styrofoam

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