@@FlesHBoX I enjoy the long form because I can always save and pause the video for viewing later. Short form, you always have the intro and exit added to them.
this long format was a delight to watch from start to end. one feedback would be to utilize more graphics to explain the plan first and then move onto construction.
If there had been a choice between the 90 minute video and episodes in the first place I would've watched it over the episodes. But I've already seen the episodes, so I probably won't now.
The step-deck trailers in the video can legally haul around 48,000 lbs before needing an overweight permit. Most of the time, the load is between 43,000 and 47,000 lbs. Concrete is like a pour-able rock --- it's ridiculously heavy!
These videos should be mandatory in schools across the world! I am shocked by how many people have no idea how the most basic systems in their city / society work. As always, you did a stellar job Grady. Salutations from Romania!
@mimaitm perhaps because they have not been to a university to learn Engineering? Our youth in the US have the opportunity more than I did 40 years ago. I took radio and TV repair VOpp in high-school because there was nothing else to introduce me. My own interest in electronics is what drove me. Today, anyone with an interest in Engineering can certainly test the waters on TH-cam.
You missed the point my friend. You don't need to be an engineer to know how water flows through a pipe, or what a pump does etc. I was talking about BASIC sistems, the simple ones.
As someone who worked waste water (summers a long time ago)... no, no it's not. The NC state lab says the discharge from the plant is "clean", but I'm not about to drink it. ('tho we are. the discharge is into a river used by other towns as the input to their water system.)
Grady, hi from Calgary, Alberta , Canada. The perfect channel for us construction/civil engineering geeks. Although I work for civil engineering consultant and see work sites every day I still find the channel a must watch. Great series.
Goodness, that was really incredible to watch. Thanks for pulling it together and many thanks to the San Antonio River Authority for supporting you for letting it be filmed and made public. I never knew how much went into something like that. Stay safe.
I’ve seen a lot of Grady’s videos and I find them all very interesting and informative. Being a plumber for the last 12 years plus my interest in seeing how things are built and operated makes this video even more captivating. TH-cam auto played this from whatever I watched prior and I saw the run time of 1.5 hrs and thought initially kinda long but my new thoughts after watching it’s over already that felt like 20 mins. Anyways thanks Grady and Grady’s team for all your hard work and effort in making the videos you make especially this one. Thank you San Antonio River Authority, Utility Engineering Group, and MGC for your participation.
This has been a great video, coming from a wastewater operator/plant manager of 24 years this is very informative. Choosing Flygt is a win for me. 4 pump stations, and another 9 pumps in my plant, I wouldn’t spec another centrifugal pump.
Normally, when I see a video that's over 1.5 hours, it's an automatic skip. But, I gave this one a shot....and, boy howdy, I'm glad I did!! It was so interesting that I got perturbed when a commercial would come on. PLEASE continue to do more just like this one!
Fantastic! Its great to see all the steps of a large project like this. Great work capturing this!All the hard work that went into presentation, production and editing...Professional
The bag, string, and vaccum trick is a common thing to do when the conduit run is extremely long. We use the string to pull a very strong rope called "mule tape" through the conduit. We then attach the mule tape to the wires being pulled with a series of knots called "half-hitching." The really thick conductors are pulled using a very strong rope which is attached to a pulling machine. Right now, I'm in school and we are currently learning about motor control systems and how to read ladder diagrams. This was a great video and I hope you make more of these!
OMG.... I had one of the projects almost like this so I was super excited to watch it all. It's almost like soothing as Grady's voice is so calm... As I was heading this project and it was much more cahotic than this one (and because it was in China), I freaking enjoyed this video from beginning to end :D By the way, that hinges idea for the pumps, is a freaking brilliant idea. Only difference is that in my project, we had to precommission all pipes when delivered onsite because you could find lots of surprises in the pipes like gloves, safety hats, metal rods, cloth....
I remember going on field trips from school, my absolute favorite was to the wastewater treatment plant in Carlsbad/ Oceanside...❤ the skimming ponds ..😮 the intake had 4 12' wide x 24' deep fast moving water. Scary how fast the flow was... A different area had aeration tanks... at the end the river of treated water went to the ocean where a little test sample retriving station was... for the laboratory on site. They had a system to collect sewer gas and generate electricity from generators run on it!
I’m a woman and I love these videos! I’m fascinated watching complex projects come together, whether it’s seeing the precision of heavy machinery, the problem-solving required in tricky situations, as in the backfill stage, or the transformation of raw materials into something new. These construction videos offer a mix of engineering, creativity, and teamwork in action, making them both educational and highly satisfying to watch.
This just makes me appreciate construction so much more. I was completely ignorant to how many steps and complex it is…all the considerations. Just amazing
Totally worth ever min & sec of the entire 1:36:34. I soldiered through endless adverts thrown in by TH-cam. Bravo 👏🏾 what a well put together video and narration.
Very, very, very impressive. More of these please. This was rivetting to watch. The awesomeness of all the engineers and tradesmen. The test gauges, the seals. Just the best.
Superb work on everyone's part. Really enyoyed this. I was surprised and amazed at just how well all the construction tasks were completed and that everyone got everything done. Well filmed, edited and voiced. All very professional and a lot of hard work. Many thanks for this!
That was absolutely fantastic. I'm such an Umarell already, but mostdef in 2052 when i turn 72 for sure :D Many thanks to you and your team for make such a great dicumentry of all processes involved all the way down to the "mundane" or funny (pizza break) around that site. It is truly hi-tech engineering, planning und careful execution. Are more of these in the works? This is informative and relaxing alike. ♥
That was awesome! And no doubt a lot of work. I'd love to see more of these documenteries on civil projects ( the construction of a municipal water tower, for example, would be very interesting).
This was an awesome video that showed great detail and great explanation of each facet of a wastewater project and the role each piece of the project takes in the function of the pump station. I used to be a PM in the heavy civil/wastewater construction industry and have since switched to another industry but I have very fond memories of my experience in that sector. Most people would have never seen this type of work unless they have worked in it and you captured the complexity and process of this work, perfectly. This video made me miss it, thanks for sharing!
Also a fitting name for someone in the Civil Engineering field considering how much grading has to be done. It's like having the surname Smith while having a job forging knives or something.
Very cool, I was an apprentice rod buster on a big new build like this 20 years ago in south west Michigan. That shoring system is new to me and impressive. Nothing like repetitive hard work to perfect process. Thanks
Hi Mr. Hillhouse, fantastic series! But I wonder, what do you think if it is possible to make a small aeries about the sewage treatment facility of San Antonio?! It would be a logical follow-up to this series. Sure not everybody wants to see where their excretions finally end up. But modern sewage treatment plants are more sophisticated than those 30 years ago! I always wondered what happens to the stick of digested food after I push the flush button!? I don't see many reports about how a modern sewage treatment facility works! Can you help, please!?
There all kinds of videos about construction projects available on the Internet, of course, but as an engineer, this is probably the best I have ever seen. It's all the detail that makes it so interesting - the details usually glossed over in the other videos. I know it was 1.5 hours long, but it certainly didn't seem like it. Well done, Grady. By the way, the book is great too!
Thank you for the video. I enjoy watching stuff like this. I can see all the expertise needed in projects like this plus I like watching workers with tools and equipment making things work. Maybe you could do a future video on the engineering and designing of these projects on how they approach something like this and what kind of issues they have to take into consideration in the design process.
Retired environmental engineer after 40 years in this industry. You did an excellent job explaining how this lift station works and showing the important details. Congratulations to the entire project team. Job well done.
I first watched this in the episodic fashion when in was first uploaded. It was nice to see it again uninterrupted from start to finish. I look forward to viewing more construction videos like this.
Incredible video, raising the seemingly mundane construction of a lift-station to an inspiring display of engineering and construction. I would never have thought such a video would capture my attention like this one did. It really makes me appreciate the hard work these guys do to put together society's critical infrastructure.
This was fascinating! I have a friend who does design for commercial projects and we were just talking about one of his lift stations yesterday. Great timing. This really helped give me a visual for what’s going on. Thank you so much.
I Worked on lots of these projects big and small all over Washington state in my 40 plus year pump repair and sales career. A great trip down memory lane.
Great video all building videos should be done like this . Here you get the detailed information on why things are done the way they are . Most programs skip the detail and tell you nothing useful or interesting . Great work keep it coming .
I did electrical and controls on sites exactly like this. very good description of it all. even at a sped up high level overview, you got all the major points. including things like thrust blocks are good details.
Grady, I greatly enjoy your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious, and this long video was a real eye-opening look at the huge amount of design and engineering that goes into infrastructure projects. Wow!
new video! oh just combined old videos that I watched as soon as they released. it was a really nice series and I hope this helps more people to watch it
Having worked in construction much of my life, I can certainly attest to the great satisfaction of seeing a project come together. Thanks for piecing the previous videos into this documentary.
Great episode. When I saw it’s more than an hour long I thought it will be boring but once I started watching I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent. Not yet retired but enjoy the long format versions of these. Hopefully more to come. Interesting to see the similarities and differences between US, UK, and European civil engineering projects. I have limited experience with Asian projects but that's a different kettle of fish altogether.
I love your practical construction series, Grady! I've been putting it on in the background while I do things around the house, it's oddly relaxing. It feels like How It's Made!
Fantastic production, great to have it all in one video! Thank you for providing this incredible content, free of charge, for all of us to enjoy. Many thanks from the UK!
Yes I am a retired person and watching videos and learning about other jobs. But, I enjoyed all about the different stages that you have to go through for building secondary pumping station. But, did I miss the part after testing was done. How did you cut in the new pumping station to the existing pipeline? I scrolled back several times and did not see that. But, thanks again for a great video on all things needed to add a new pumping station! Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I have been around industrial-level construction for almost 4 years, now, and it's amazing all the effort that goes into making large facilities, or even just many interconnected facilities (like a subdivision). One note: most of the concrete that gets poured needs a site-engineer or similar around to make sure the finishers don't keep asking for more water (especially after collecting the test-wheelbarrow). The truck drivers will do what they're told, so it's pretty frequent to see a tester get concrete to test, then the truck be released to a pump and ... immediately add 10-20 gallons of water. It's not great, but it makes the concrete more easily worked. Having someone to ride herd on the crew who cares about the finished work is important because concrete is frequently foundational (lol) to the stability of the structure(s).
Just wow! I can't believe how much planning, preparation and work goes into something as innocently sounding as a "sewage lift station". What a fantastic video, hope to see more of this kind in the future. 👍 Side note, I'm also surprised about the amount of rain. As an ignorant European, I always thought all of Texas was about as dry as a desert. 😉
This is an amazing video. Thank you everyone involved for moving the sewage. And thank you for taking so many precautions in ensuring a long lasting safe sawage system
That vacuum trick with the string is absolutely witchcraft. I'm immediately looking around for a conduit to try it on. Possibly one of the best construction documentaries I've ever seen. The minimal abstractions like drawings and animations were perfect, just enough to clarify what we're looking at, while leaving the practical elements intact. The shoring panels being the prime example.
This is exactly the kind of content I watched as a kid on VHS, Discovery and Science Channels. I loved watching shows of construction and how things were built. Thanks for this Grady, please please do another video like this of another project!
A thoroughly comprehensive overview with detailed explanation sections of a very interesting process. Thank you. I'll share this to my son who will hopefully share this within his high school construction class.
Thanks to Grady and the PC team and all those involved in producing this entertaining and informative documentary. I also think that documentaries like this are not only necessary but essential for a well informed public. Not everyone would find this fascinating but it is brilliant to know there are people like Grady and the PC crew producing content like this so that the general public can get an insight into the essential services that are provided so that we can live in a functioning society relatively stress free. Cheers.
Thanks! Well done. A super tiny annoying thing is when presenting a group of units is interleaving conversion between systems. For example, “50 kw to pump 800 per minute gallons up to 30 feet”, it is to follow I feel if they’re all narrated in one system at once and then narrating the equivalent values in another system. Enjoyed the video immensely.
I have watched two of this type of lift built in NE Ohio over my career on my drive by to work each day but I never saw it all like you showed it. Thank you for filling in hundreds of the missing spots.
A great presentation with understandable explanations. My ten y.o. grandson throughly enjoys watching your programs with me. Gotta expose these new engineers and tradesmen early!
Please please please 🙏 make content like this I know its a very long production production, but it's fantastic. I watched it start to finish without stopping
Thanks for putting this into one video. I hadn’t actually paid attention that you put them out little by little, but I saw this and clicked quickly. Thank you, this was really nice to watch.
Love all your vids and your passion for civil engineering and how you explain things. I really enjoyed the longer format and hope you sprinkle them in amongst your usual stuff at a future date, though I realize they take way more time and effort to produce and edit. Gonna be a good hour and a half watching it all in one go
Loved watching all the episodes together like this. I've always enjoyed watching construction and getting to see all of the details was a real treat for this old pensioner 😊
great video, we need more pratical construction videos like this to bridge the gap between engineers and the public, I often see complaints about how long certain projects are taking, and its because there is a disconnect between the public, the construction crews, and the engineers.
Congratulations, excellent work Grady and Team! I'm sure I am not the only one usually skipping 90m+ videos... But somehow I knew this will be worth watching; and I wasn't disappointed the least. Nice job!
Being a developer, I also cannot help myself admiring your excellent name choice. :-) Ps this stoobid app is rather buggy when it comes to addressing someone…
An absolutely amazing video, Grady. Thanks so much for sharing this project with us. All that effort for a largely-subsurface sewage lift station in Central Texas. I had no idea. 😃
This is great! Really gives a good understanding of what comes into play with this real kind of projects. Real practical engineering. Thx so much for posting
Amazing!! A really well presented series, easy to follow, understand and appreciate. I am from the UK and a few decades ago when the Discovery channel came to these shores, this is what I thought it would be like; how wrong I was!!
Thank you for all your efforts! I really enjoyed this video and will be looking for video about other large construction projects. I've enjoyed every one of the "Practical Engineering" videos I've seen.
Just finished rewatching this and it was just as enjoyable the second time, perhaps even more so now that it's all out in one go rather than the piecemeal fashion the first time! The guided tour of this work site is fascinating :)
Quite the video! What a project to get together, Grady! I imagine that removing the shoring system is heck on the excavator's bearing system with all those hard pulls.
Thank you! I very much enjoy watching your excellent videos. I appreciate that you share with everyone how much work and engineering go into all the "seemingly" simple things that we all take for granted!
This was awesome to watch. I've been doing IT for the last 20 years, but my first real job was doing precast concrete shop drawings. I would take the engineers plans and translate that to something our workers could build. We did all kinds of sewage and drainage, but I remember lift stations as one of the more interesting things I got to work on. I never got to see it all put together like this! Thank you so much. :D
I loved this series so much when you first posted it and I'm looking forward to giving it a rewatch now that it's all in one place. It's just so cool to get this look into how the big stuff gets put together!
Totally worth re-watching all of this again, since having it all in one shot makes it a lot easier to connect previous details.
I'm pretty sure it's not all one *shot.* Grady did try, but the "Birdman" crew was busy. 😜
@RFC3514 agree, Very good document. I might enjoy watching it again 6 months from now. Depends on my memory?
@@FlesHBoX I enjoy the long form because I can always save and pause the video for viewing later. Short form, you always have the intro and exit added to them.
this long format was a delight to watch from start to end.
one feedback would be to utilize more graphics to explain the plan first and then move onto construction.
I'm hoping enough viewers agree with me and give this a(nother) watch and we can see more of this in future!
If there had been a choice between the 90 minute video and episodes in the first place I would've watched it over the episodes. But I've already seen the episodes, so I probably won't now.
@@PrivateMemo The long format allows full picture that is getting rare nowadays
I enjoyed both the original episodes and this long form video.
I enjoy the long form because I can always save and pause the video for viewing later. Short form, you always have the intro and exit added to them.
He's got 3.97 million subscribers I think he's doing okay
I hope you do more content like this series in the future!
As as annual holiday special would be cool
IIRC they said it didn't get enough views to justify doing more, which is a shame.
What a fantastic documentary! Pure distilled civil engineering, non-stop. The fill _and_ the narrator's voice are hypnotic
Did I watch every episode of this series as they released? Yes.
Did I rewatch the entire project in a single video anyway? Also yes.
Did i drink vodka? Yea
You've practically engineered one of the best educational channels on TH-cam
Watching the suspension on the trucks when they take off each concrete well segment really conveys just how much weight they're handling.
The step-deck trailers in the video can legally haul around 48,000 lbs before needing an overweight permit. Most of the time, the load is between 43,000 and 47,000 lbs. Concrete is like a pour-able rock --- it's ridiculously heavy!
These videos should be mandatory in schools across the world! I am shocked by how many people have no idea how the most basic systems in their city / society work.
As always, you did a stellar job Grady. Salutations from Romania!
@mimaitm perhaps because they have not been to a university to learn Engineering? Our youth in the US have the opportunity more than I did 40 years ago. I took radio and TV repair VOpp in high-school because there was nothing else to introduce me. My own interest in electronics is what drove me. Today, anyone with an interest in Engineering can certainly test the waters on TH-cam.
You missed the point my friend.
You don't need to be an engineer to know how water flows through a pipe, or what a pump does etc.
I was talking about BASIC sistems, the simple ones.
I don't have any construction experience but after watching this video I have applied to several construction companies for a superintendent role
Average KPMG consultant behaviour
@30:23 "it almost looks good enough to drink"
You're a sick man Grady.
i think it looks like a milkshake
As someone who worked waste water (summers a long time ago)... no, no it's not. The NC state lab says the discharge from the plant is "clean", but I'm not about to drink it. ('tho we are. the discharge is into a river used by other towns as the input to their water system.)
@@jfbeam the timestamp is for low strength fill, which is concrete not the output of the treatment plant
Grady, hi from Calgary, Alberta , Canada. The perfect channel for us construction/civil engineering geeks. Although I work for civil engineering consultant and see work sites every day I still find the channel a must watch. Great series.
Happy to give this entire series a rewatch in one whole video!
On *hole* video
Agreed 😊
Goodness, that was really incredible to watch. Thanks for pulling it together and many thanks to the San Antonio River Authority for supporting you for letting it be filmed and made public. I never knew how much went into something like that. Stay safe.
I’ve seen a lot of Grady’s videos and I find them all very interesting and informative. Being a plumber for the last 12 years plus my interest in seeing how things are built and operated makes this video even more captivating. TH-cam auto played this from whatever I watched prior and I saw the run time of 1.5 hrs and thought initially kinda long but my new thoughts after watching it’s over already that felt like 20 mins. Anyways thanks Grady and Grady’s team for all your hard work and effort in making the videos you make especially this one. Thank you San Antonio River Authority, Utility Engineering Group, and MGC for your participation.
This has been a great video, coming from a wastewater operator/plant manager of 24 years this is very informative. Choosing Flygt is a win for me. 4 pump stations, and another 9 pumps in my plant, I wouldn’t spec another centrifugal pump.
Normally, when I see a video that's over 1.5 hours, it's an automatic skip. But, I gave this one a shot....and, boy howdy, I'm glad I did!! It was so interesting that I got perturbed when a commercial would come on. PLEASE continue to do more just like this one!
Omg omg omg omg an hour of practical engineering!!!
Excellent! Why am I excited about a re-run about sewage processing?!?!
Pumping. Processing is a different thing. :-) (See also: PBS Terra: Where Does the Poop Go? - waste water treatment at McMurdo.)
One of the more fascinating videos you've posted.
Watching this from the beginning to the end felt so interesting and effortless. This is just amazing content I'd want to watch over and over again
Thanks! Amazing work. Really enjoyed your high quality presentation. Have to ask for more!
Fantastic! Its great to see all the steps of a large project like this. Great work capturing this!All the hard work that went into presentation, production and editing...Professional
The bag, string, and vaccum trick is a common thing to do when the conduit run is extremely long. We use the string to pull a very strong rope called "mule tape" through the conduit. We then attach the mule tape to the wires being pulled with a series of knots called "half-hitching." The really thick conductors are pulled using a very strong rope which is attached to a pulling machine. Right now, I'm in school and we are currently learning about motor control systems and how to read ladder diagrams.
This was a great video and I hope you make more of these!
OMG.... I had one of the projects almost like this so I was super excited to watch it all. It's almost like soothing as Grady's voice is so calm... As I was heading this project and it was much more cahotic than this one (and because it was in China), I freaking enjoyed this video from beginning to end :D By the way, that hinges idea for the pumps, is a freaking brilliant idea.
Only difference is that in my project, we had to precommission all pipes when delivered onsite because you could find lots of surprises in the pipes like gloves, safety hats, metal rods, cloth....
I remember going on field trips from school, my absolute favorite was to the wastewater treatment plant in Carlsbad/ Oceanside...❤ the skimming ponds ..😮 the intake had 4 12' wide x 24' deep fast moving water. Scary how fast the flow was... A different area had aeration tanks... at the end the river of treated water went to the ocean where a little test sample retriving station was... for the laboratory on site. They had a system to collect sewer gas and generate electricity from generators run on it!
I’m a woman and I love these videos! I’m fascinated watching complex projects come together, whether it’s seeing the precision of heavy machinery, the problem-solving required in tricky situations, as in the backfill stage, or the transformation of raw materials into something new. These construction videos offer a mix of engineering, creativity, and teamwork in action, making them both educational and highly satisfying to watch.
This just makes me appreciate construction so much more. I was completely ignorant to how many steps and complex it is…all the considerations. Just amazing
Please please please do more things like this, I had so much fun learning about this!
I am a car guy, but this civil engineering stuff is so cool, i am mindblown.
Totally worth ever min & sec of the entire 1:36:34. I soldiered through endless adverts thrown in by TH-cam. Bravo 👏🏾 what a well put together video and narration.
Very, very, very impressive. More of these please. This was rivetting to watch. The awesomeness of all the engineers and tradesmen. The test gauges, the seals. Just the best.
You have managed to educate and entertain at the same time. Thank you.
Superb work on everyone's part. Really enyoyed this. I was surprised and amazed at just how well all the construction tasks were completed and that everyone got everything done. Well filmed, edited and voiced. All very professional and a lot of hard work. Many thanks for this!
That was absolutely fantastic.
I'm such an Umarell already, but mostdef in 2052 when i turn 72 for sure :D
Many thanks to you and your team for make such a great dicumentry of all processes involved all the way down to the "mundane" or funny (pizza break) around that site.
It is truly hi-tech engineering, planning und careful execution.
Are more of these in the works? This is informative and relaxing alike.
♥
That was awesome! And no doubt a lot of work. I'd love to see more of these documenteries on civil projects ( the construction of a municipal water tower, for example, would be very interesting).
This was an awesome series! I hope to see more of these. I'm sure San Antonio likes the advertising and public relations part of these videos!
No sh.. Sherlock!
This was an awesome video that showed great detail and great explanation of each facet of a wastewater project and the role each piece of the project takes in the function of the pump station. I used to be a PM in the heavy civil/wastewater construction industry and have since switched to another industry but I have very fond memories of my experience in that sector. Most people would have never seen this type of work unless they have worked in it and you captured the complexity and process of this work, perfectly. This video made me miss it, thanks for sharing!
This documentation deserves the utmost respect. Fabulous work! Thank you very much.
Remind me of this in 4-5 years so I can let my future children watch it. Kids love wholesome construction videos.
Never noticed that Grady has the perfect last name for school Textbooks books 😂
Also a fitting name for someone in the Civil Engineering field considering how much grading has to be done. It's like having the surname Smith while having a job forging knives or something.
Very cool, I was an apprentice rod buster on a big new build like this 20 years ago in south west Michigan. That shoring system is new to me and impressive. Nothing like repetitive hard work to perfect process. Thanks
Hi Mr. Hillhouse, fantastic series! But I wonder, what do you think if it is possible to make a small aeries about the sewage treatment facility of San Antonio?! It would be a logical follow-up to this series. Sure not everybody wants to see where their excretions finally end up. But modern sewage treatment plants are more sophisticated than those 30 years ago! I always wondered what happens to the stick of digested food after I push the flush button!? I don't see many reports about how a modern sewage treatment facility works! Can you help, please!?
There all kinds of videos about construction projects available on the Internet, of course, but as an engineer, this is probably the best I have ever seen. It's all the detail that makes it so interesting - the details usually glossed over in the other videos. I know it was 1.5 hours long, but it certainly didn't seem like it. Well done, Grady. By the way, the book is great too!
Thank you for the video. I enjoy watching stuff like this. I can see all the expertise needed in projects like this plus I like watching workers with tools and equipment making things work. Maybe you could do a future video on the engineering and designing of these projects on how they approach something like this and what kind of issues they have to take into consideration in the design process.
Retired environmental engineer after 40 years in this industry. You did an excellent job explaining how this lift station works and showing the important details. Congratulations to the entire project team. Job well done.
I first watched this in the episodic fashion when in was first uploaded. It was nice to see it again uninterrupted from start to finish.
I look forward to viewing more construction videos like this.
Incredible video, raising the seemingly mundane construction of a lift-station to an inspiring display of engineering and construction. I would never have thought such a video would capture my attention like this one did. It really makes me appreciate the hard work these guys do to put together society's critical infrastructure.
This was fascinating! I have a friend who does design for commercial projects and we were just talking about one of his lift stations yesterday. Great timing.
This really helped give me a visual for what’s going on. Thank you so much.
I Worked on lots of these projects big and small all over Washington state in my 40 plus year pump repair and sales career. A great trip down memory lane.
Great video all building videos should be done like this .
Here you get the detailed information on why things are done the way they are .
Most programs skip the detail and tell you nothing useful or interesting .
Great work keep it coming .
I did electrical and controls on sites exactly like this. very good description of it all. even at a sped up high level overview, you got all the major points. including things like thrust blocks are good details.
Grady, I greatly enjoy your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious, and this long video was a real eye-opening look at the huge amount of design and engineering that goes into infrastructure projects. Wow!
new video! oh just combined old videos that I watched as soon as they released. it was a really nice series and I hope this helps more people to watch it
Having worked in construction much of my life, I can certainly attest to the great satisfaction of seeing a project come together. Thanks for piecing the previous videos into this documentary.
Great episode. When I saw it’s more than an hour long I thought it will be boring but once I started watching I enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent. Not yet retired but enjoy the long format versions of these. Hopefully more to come. Interesting to see the similarities and differences between US, UK, and European civil engineering projects. I have limited experience with Asian projects but that's a different kettle of fish altogether.
I love your practical construction series, Grady! I've been putting it on in the background while I do things around the house, it's oddly relaxing. It feels like How It's Made!
Fantastic production, great to have it all in one video! Thank you for providing this incredible content, free of charge, for all of us to enjoy. Many thanks from the UK!
Yes I am a retired person and watching videos and learning about other jobs.
But, I enjoyed all about the different stages that you have to go through for building secondary pumping station. But, did I miss the part after testing was done. How did you cut in the new pumping station to the existing pipeline?
I scrolled back several times and did not see that.
But, thanks again for a great video on all things needed to add a new pumping station! Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I have been around industrial-level construction for almost 4 years, now, and it's amazing all the effort that goes into making large facilities, or even just many interconnected facilities (like a subdivision). One note: most of the concrete that gets poured needs a site-engineer or similar around to make sure the finishers don't keep asking for more water (especially after collecting the test-wheelbarrow). The truck drivers will do what they're told, so it's pretty frequent to see a tester get concrete to test, then the truck be released to a pump and ... immediately add 10-20 gallons of water. It's not great, but it makes the concrete more easily worked. Having someone to ride herd on the crew who cares about the finished work is important because concrete is frequently foundational (lol) to the stability of the structure(s).
Just wow! I can't believe how much planning, preparation and work goes into something as innocently sounding as a "sewage lift station". What a fantastic video, hope to see more of this kind in the future. 👍
Side note, I'm also surprised about the amount of rain. As an ignorant European, I always thought all of Texas was about as dry as a desert. 😉
This is an amazing video. Thank you everyone involved for moving the sewage. And thank you for taking so many precautions in ensuring a long lasting safe sawage system
That vacuum trick with the string is absolutely witchcraft. I'm immediately looking around for a conduit to try it on.
Possibly one of the best construction documentaries I've ever seen. The minimal abstractions like drawings and animations were perfect, just enough to clarify what we're looking at, while leaving the practical elements intact. The shoring panels being the prime example.
The automated 'tube' the drive thru bank uses....
I've been watching each tid bit you've put out and good to see a culmination of it all here.
This is exactly the kind of content I watched as a kid on VHS, Discovery and Science Channels. I loved watching shows of construction and how things were built. Thanks for this Grady, please please do another video like this of another project!
A thoroughly comprehensive overview with detailed explanation sections of a very interesting process. Thank you. I'll share this to my son who will hopefully share this within his high school construction class.
The theme of the music combined with the time lapse reminds me of playing SimCity.
Thanks to Grady and the PC team and all those involved in producing this entertaining and informative documentary. I also think that documentaries like this are not only necessary but essential for a well informed public. Not everyone would find this fascinating but it is brilliant to know there are people like Grady and the PC crew producing content like this so that the general public can get an insight into the essential services that are provided so that we can live in a functioning society relatively stress free. Cheers.
Thanks! Well done.
A super tiny annoying thing is when presenting a group of units is interleaving conversion between systems. For example, “50 kw to pump 800 per minute gallons up to 30 feet”, it is to follow I feel if they’re all narrated in one system at once and then narrating the equivalent values in another system.
Enjoyed the video immensely.
I have watched two of this type of lift built in NE Ohio over my career on my drive by to work each day but I never saw it all like you showed it. Thank you for filling in hundreds of the missing spots.
A great presentation with understandable explanations. My ten y.o. grandson throughly enjoys watching your programs with me.
Gotta expose these new engineers and tradesmen early!
New video format. Great idea.
Wow. Never realized how much work goes into such a project.
Please please please 🙏 make content like this I know its a very long production production, but it's fantastic.
I watched it start to finish without stopping
Thank you for having a really nice 1.5 hour video to just shut off my brain to. I watched these when they came out initially. all in one vid is great.
Thanks for putting this into one video. I hadn’t actually paid attention that you put them out little by little, but I saw this and clicked quickly. Thank you, this was really nice to watch.
Love all your vids and your passion for civil engineering and how you explain things. I really enjoyed the longer format and hope you sprinkle them in amongst your usual stuff at a future date, though I realize they take way more time and effort to produce and edit. Gonna be a good hour and a half watching it all in one go
Loved watching all the episodes together like this. I've always enjoyed watching construction and getting to see all of the details was a real treat for this old pensioner 😊
great video, we need more pratical construction videos like this to bridge the gap between engineers and the public, I often see complaints about how long certain projects are taking, and its because there is a disconnect between the public, the construction crews, and the engineers.
Congratulations, excellent work Grady and Team! I'm sure I am not the only one usually skipping 90m+ videos...
But somehow I knew this will be worth watching; and I wasn't disappointed the least. Nice job!
You can't skip it when you know it's Practical Engineering.
Being a developer, I also cannot help myself admiring your excellent name choice. :-)
Ps this stoobid app is rather buggy when it comes to addressing someone…
Wow Grady. What a fantastic job you have done with this. Unreal. I'm blown away by this level of your breakdown of this sophisticated engineering.
An absolutely amazing video, Grady. Thanks so much for sharing this project with us. All that effort for a largely-subsurface sewage lift station in Central Texas. I had no idea. 😃
This is great! Really gives a good understanding of what comes into play with this real kind of projects. Real practical engineering. Thx so much for posting
Amazing!! A really well presented series, easy to follow, understand and appreciate. I am from the UK and a few decades ago when the Discovery channel came to these shores, this is what I thought it would be like; how wrong I was!!
This is what Discovery Channel USED to be. Unfortunately, they’ve given up on their original content of interesting edu-tainment.
I was just starting my career as a pump station mechanic when he did these videos and I watched them it helped me understand things a lot better
thank you very much for such an amazing video. I love to see how really construction projects go
Thank you for all your efforts!
I really enjoyed this video and will be looking for video about other large construction projects.
I've enjoyed every one of the "Practical Engineering" videos I've seen.
Amazing project. With ALL that work and material, I am surprised that it is an affordable solution. But also glad that it is!!! Great Video, Thanx
Cameras everywhere, filming every detail. A huge effort and a great result. Thanks
I absolutely LOVE these series!
Just finished rewatching this and it was just as enjoyable the second time, perhaps even more so now that it's all out in one go rather than the piecemeal fashion the first time! The guided tour of this work site is fascinating :)
Thanks for all the awesome videos
Quite the video! What a project to get together, Grady!
I imagine that removing the shoring system is heck on the excavator's bearing system with all those hard pulls.
Thank you! I very much enjoy watching your excellent videos. I appreciate that you share with everyone how much work and engineering go into all the "seemingly" simple things that we all take for granted!
This was awesome to watch. I've been doing IT for the last 20 years, but my first real job was doing precast concrete shop drawings. I would take the engineers plans and translate that to something our workers could build. We did all kinds of sewage and drainage, but I remember lift stations as one of the more interesting things I got to work on. I never got to see it all put together like this! Thank you so much. :D
Amazing work on this video! Whole new appreciation for construction and engineering.
The attention to detail and mechanical engineering required for, such a seemingly innocuous civil engineering project is astounding!
I loved this series so much when you first posted it and I'm looking forward to giving it a rewatch now that it's all in one place. It's just so cool to get this look into how the big stuff gets put together!
Fantasic video! Really well made and very interesting. Would love to see more content like this!
Love the mega video. I loved watching the first time.