MegaStructures – Season 5
Episodes
Beijing Water Cube
Bridge Breakdown
A historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.
747 Destruction
Shanghai Super Tower
The design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.
China's Ultimate Port
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
The World's Biggest Cruise Liner
The 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.
World's Biggest Casino
Icelandic Super Dam
This 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
Deep Earth Drillers
Mega Green Tech is in search of geothermal power.
World Trade Center Bahrain
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.
South Pole Station
The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
Impossible Build
The 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.