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Megastructures: Air Crane Helicopter
Take a look at the phenomenally powerful Air-Crane heavy-lift helicopter, capable of carrying out gruelling work with surgical precision.
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Megastructures: World's Tallest TV Tower
The elegant Guangzhou Sightseeing and TV Tower is one of the world's tallest buildings. Find out how it is designed to withstand Mother Nature.
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Megastructures: Super Ski Lift
Follow the staggering $25 million project to 'super size' the famous aerial tram at Jackson Hole, with some parts constructed at over 4,000ft.
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Megastructures: Reinventing The Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam is an iconic piece of American engineering. But how would modern engineers have tackled the project?
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Megastructures: Electric Ocean
The ocean could be our most valuable source of green energy. Three teams of engineers seek the best way to generate electricity using its power.
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Megastructures: Ice Breakers
Examine the vessels that keep the world's shipping lanes open and follow the construction of the largest commercial icebreaker ever built.
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Megastructures: Britain's New Railway
Explore one of the largest engineering projects in UK history: High Speed One, the groundbreaking high-speed rail link between London and Paris.
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Megastructures: Future Bridge
Follow the record-breaking effort to rebuild the Minneapolis I-35W bridge in only 17 months, with a focus on its unique engineering.
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Megastructures: The Grand Mosque
Containing both the world's largest chandelier and the world's biggest carpet, explore the remarkable Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
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Megastructures: The Round Skycraper
Following the construction of a truly remarkable building – the Aldar HQ building in Abu Dhabi – from conception to completion.
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Megastructures: The Leaning Tower Of Abu Dhabi
The Capital Gate building will create an iconic and avant-garde entrance to the city of Abu Dhabi, leaning at a record-breaking 18 degrees.
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Megastructures: The Round Skyscraper
Following the construction of a truly remarkable building – the Aldar HQ building in Abu Dhabi – from conception to completion.
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Megastructures: Queen Mary 2
In 1998, long after the golden age of ocean liner travel had ended, an American billionaire decides to fulfil his dream and build the largest ocean liner on the planet in record time.
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Megastructures: World's Fastest Roller Coaster
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Megastructures: Spaceport America
Time was, if you wanted to leave earth, you needed a government ride. But in the very desert that helped give birth to the Space Age, Spaceport America will rise. The space version of an airport, it's a revolution in travel, with a revolutionary design to match. Yet the spaceport faces a world of hurdles. "Probably the most complicated project I've ever been on," says an engineer. The site sits in the middle of nowhere: no roads, no water, no power. And the spaceport won't be built unless a rancher controlling the land for a runway changes her mind.
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Megastructures: Supertanker
Revealing the remarkable secrets of these gods of the seas: the size, the technology, the power and the incredible science behind the engineering and design. With exclusive access to the world's largest shipbuilders and shipyards.
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Megastructures: Queen Mary 2
In 1998, long after the golden age of ocean liner travel had ended, an American billionaire decides to fulfil his dream and build the largest ocean liner on the planet in record time.
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Megastructures: South Pole Station
For decades the South Pole has been a haven for astronomy and climatology. Now, despite the inhospitable conditions, a project is under way to build a 21st-century research facility.
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Megastructures: Ice Hotel
Every year thousands of tons of ice and snow are needed to build the Ice Hotel. Witness the construction and disappearance of this most unique megastructure.
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Megastructures: Atom Smasher
The Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.
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Megastructures: The Ultimate Rollercoaster
Follow the building of Kingda Ka, the world's fastest and tallest rollercoaster. Designed to go from 0 to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds and 45 stories tall, Kingda Ka is a structural giant.
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Megastructures: Deep Earth Drillers
Explore the world's largest geothermal power complex as scientists and visionaries try to expand the potential of geothermal power across the planet.
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Megastructures: The World's Busiest Port
Straddling one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, this is the port of call for a quarter of the world's containers and half the world's supply of oil. Now, imagine if something at this port were to go horribly wrong...
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Megastructures: Diamond Diggers
At the Ekati Diamond Mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, meet the world's most hardcore mining machines: the D90 rotary blast drill, the DeMag 655 hydraulic shovel, and the CAT 793C haul truck.
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Megastructures: Channel Tunnel
Construction of the most expensive railway tunnel in history suffered from flood and roof collapse, but technology finally saved the day.
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Megastructures: Future Trains
Speeding at 430 km/h, a futuristic magnetic levitation train turns a 30 km journey into an eight-minute joyride. Safe and efficient MAGLEV technology could change the way we travel in the future.
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Megastructures: Garbage Mountain
Uncover the giant world of garbage at America's largest active mega-dump in Puente Hills, California. Here, a record 2,000 tonnes of rubbish are processed in an hour.
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Megastructures: Money Factory
Explore America's mammoth money-making industry, a secretive world of monster machines, impenetrable vaults and an army of guards, all supporting the world's most powerful economy.
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Megastructures: Oil Mine
There is enough oil in the frozen wasteland of Canada's northern plains to free the US and Canada from dependence on Saudi Arabia within nine years. Extracting is a huge engineering project.
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Megastructures: Super Pipeline
A 1,200 km super pipeline connecting Norway and the UK is only part of the plan to tap into Norway's second largest gas deposit.
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Megastructures: World Trade Centre Bahrain
The Bahrain World Trade Centre stands proud at over 240 metres tall and is powered by a revolutionary method – wind. Explore the science behind this unique architectural marvel.
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Megastructures: Ferrari Rollercoaster
Find out how the world's most impressive buildings are constructed, as this series explores impressive engineering across the globe.
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Megastructures: Extreme Railway
Crossing some of the planet's toughest terrain at high altitude, the 1000km Qinghai-Tibet railway is an extraordinary feat of engineering.
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Megastructures: Itaipu Dam
The Itaipu Dam is the world's largest hydro-electric power plant and a triumph of engineering. Discover how it was built against impossible odds.
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Megastructures: Future Bridge
Follow the record-breaking effort to rebuild the Minneapolis I-35W bridge in only 17 months, with a focus on its unique engineering.
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Megastructures: Deep Sea Highway
South Korea never constructed a submerged tunnel, but now tackles the challenge of building one of the deepest immersed highways on Earth.
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Megastructures: Space Port America
Witness the plans and challenges of erecting a revolutionary space port in the middle of the desert in America.
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Megastructures: Pearl River Tower
Discover how a multitude of energy efficient technologies power China's Pearl River Tower, one of a new generation of super skyscrapers.
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Megastructures: Singapore Vegas
The secrets behind Singapore's Marina Bay Sands development, which includes hotels, a museum, casino, waterfront promenade and theatres.
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Megastructures: Dubai's 5-Star Racecourse
Built in the middle of the desert, the new Meydan racecourse will define raceday luxury. But will it be finished in time for the Dubai World Cup?
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Megastructures: Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge
To save one of the most iconic engineering wonders of all time requires the creation of another masterpiece: the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.
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Megastructures: Ferrari Rollercoaster
Find out how the world's most impressive buildings are constructed, as this series explores impressive engineering across the globe.
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Megastructures: World's Biggest Tent
World-renowned architect Norman Foster details his plans for a space-age entertainment centre in the capital of Kazakhstan.