This documentary series focuses on extreme construction projects -- be they the biggest, tallest, longest or deepest in the world -- and the machines used to create extraordinary structures.
Where to Watch Megastructures • Seizoen 5
19 Episodes
Beijing Water Cube
A1
Beijing Water Cube
Bridge Breakdown
A2
Bridge BreakdownA historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
A3
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
Shanghai Super Tower
A4
Shanghai Super TowerThe design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.
Beijing Water Cube
A5
Beijing Water Cube
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
A6
Sinking an Aircraft CarrierLooks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
Shanghai Super Tower
A7
Shanghai Super TowerThe renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
Icelandic Super Dam
A8
Icelandic Super Dam
Icelandic Super Dam
A9
Icelandic Super DamThis episode looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, the drilling of 30-mile-long tunnels and the construction of a gigantic underground power plant.
Beijing Olympic Stadium (Building Green Beijing)
A10
Beijing Olympic Stadium (Building Green Beijing)
Deep Earth Drillers
A12
Deep Earth DrillersMega Green Tech is in search of geothermal power.
World Trade Center Bahrain
A14
World Trade Center Bahrain
Atom Smasher
A15
Atom SmasherThe Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.
South Pole Station
A21
South Pole Station
The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
A22
The World's Biggest CruiselinerLooks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
Impossible Build
A24
Impossible BuildThe renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
