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MegaStructures: Specials

37 episodes · premiered Jun 6, 2003

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  1. Episode 1: World's Biggest Tent Jun 6, 2003 · 1h With its vibrant diversity of attractions and facilities and the ground-breaking design that creates maximum visual impact, Singapore's Marina Bay Sands development is bound to become a…
  2. Episode 2: Machines of War: Tanks Mar 8, 2006 · 1h NGC steps into the world of garbage in California's Puente Hills landfill, America's biggest landfill, to uncover the inner-workings at LA's filthiest suburb.
  3. Episode 3: World Island Wonder 1h Dubai is on a mission: to become to top tourist destination on the planet. This Emirate has almost tripled its coast line, by building a palm-shaped city at sea. Now Dubai plans to put…
  4. Episode 4: Super Pipeline 1h We look at one of the gas industry’s riskiest projects ever undertaken. By 2008, Britain will be connected to Norway via a 1,200 km super pipeline. It’s composed of over one million tonnes…
  5. Episode 5: Hawaii Super Ferry 1h A team of workers in Alabama is creating the largest aluminium vessel of its kind for the waves of Hawaii. This 'super ferry' will hold shops, restaurants and 300 cars.
  6. Episode 6: South Africa Stadiums Jun 6, 2003 · 1h Take an eye-popping look at the greatest structures and machines ever created as we focus on some of the world's modern-day miracles of construction. Go behind the terraces to see how…
  7. Episode 7: China's Ultimate Port (Yangshan Deep Ocean Port) 1h In 2002, Chinese engineers and workers tackled one of the biggest construction projects on earth, the Yangshan Deep Water Port. Thirty km out to sea, with 20 km of quay and fifty berths…
  8. Episode 8: 747 Breakdown 1h World's Largest Casino follows the construction of the world's biggest casino and its second biggest building. It's being sited in Macau, in Southern China, which is being groomed to be…
  9. Episode 9: 747 Breakdown 1h For years, when a jumbo jet reached the end of its 30-year lifespan, it'd end up in a scrap yard, or rotting at the end of a runway. But at the Evergreen Air Center in Marana, Arizona…
  10. Episode 10: Money Factory 1h One hundred billion dollars in bullion. Monster money-making machines, impenetrable subterranean vaults. An army of protectors. All supporting the world's most powerful economy. Explore…
  11. Episode 11: China's Ultimate Port (Yangshan Deep Ocean Port) 1h The Piacenza bridge, 40 miles south of Milan. This steel and concrete bridge3 has connected the cities of Piacenza and Lodi, spanning a remarkable 3,300 feet across the Po River. But in…
  12. Episode 12: World's Biggest Casino 1h Go inside the construction of China's three ultimate bridges: the Lupu, the world's longest arch bridge; the Runyang, the country's largest suspension bridge; and the Sutong, soon to be…
  13. Episode 13: Constantinople Rescue 1h It is one of the most ambitious construction projects of modern times: building the world’s deepest submarine tunnel beneath one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet, just 12 miles…
  14. Episode 14: Sun Engine (Man Made Sun) 1h The world of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), an evolving technology to harness the sun's rays on a massive scale to power entire communities.
  15. Episode 15: Mega Breakdown: Italian Bridge 1h In the intense glare of the Texas sun, a team of demolition experts attempt to cut down and recycle the Navy's "first and finest fast attack oiler," the U.S.S. Savannah AOR-4. This tough…
  16. Episode 16: Impossible Bridges: China 1h Go inside the construction of China's three ultimate bridges: the Lupu, the world's longest arch bridge; the Runyang, the country's largest suspension bridge; and the Sutong, soon to be…
  17. Episode 17: Deep Earth Drillers 1h Behind the scenes of geothermal power complexes in California and Iceland, and a look at how scientists hope to expand its use by digging deeper into the Earth's crust.
  18. Episode 18: Mega Breakdown: Navy Tanker 1h
  19. Episode 19: Smart Tunnel Jun 3, 2012 · 1h National Geographic Megastructures: Mega Breakdown - Yankee Stadium: Home to the New York Yankees for more than eight decades, host to 37 World Series and a Mecca for baseball fans…
  20. Episode 20: Deep Earth Drillers Dec 20, 2008 · 1h Behind the scenes of geothermal power complexes in California and Iceland, and a look at how scientists hope to expand its use by digging deeper into the Earth's crust.
  21. Episode 21: Dubai Mega Mall 1h Central to Dubai’s reputation as a leisure capital is: the Dubai Mall. With an indoor aquarium, ice rink, roller coaster and 1,200 shops, it must be completed by a nearly impossible…
  22. Episode 22: Mega Breakdown: Yankee Stadium 1h For over 12 years, more than 2500 people have been working at temperatures above 40 degrees centigrade, on a project that’s intended to become a national icon. The construction of the…
  23. Episode 23: World's Biggest Shredder Jan 20, 2013 · 1h This metal-chomping monster takes up the floor space of an entire factory and it can reduce the equivalent of 450 cars an hour to little more than pulp.
  24. Episode 24: Building Green Beijing 1h Engineers discuss the construction of the Bahrain World Trade Centre's two 50-storey, sail-shaped skyscrapers and the ambitious plan to power the buildings using wind turbines.
  25. Episode 25: Dubai Mega Mall 1h Hoover Dam is regarded as an engineering masterpiece and an American icon. But what if it did not exist today? How would engineers build it today? In this one-hour program, we ask a team…
  26. Episode 26: Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque 1h Megastructures: Deep Sea Drillers follows an attempt to tap some of the most inaccessible natural gas on the planet, in which five high-tech mega vessels will complete a 1,800 square mile…
  27. Episode 27: World's Biggest Shredder Jan 20, 2013 · 1h This metal-chomping monster takes up the floor space of an entire factory and it can reduce the equivalent of 450 cars an hour to little more than pulp.
  28. Episode 28: Reinventing the Hoover Dam 1h Hoover Dam is regarded as an engineering masterpiece and an American icon. But what if it did not exist today? How would engineers build it today? In this one-hour program, we ask a team…
  29. Episode 29: Mega Breakdown: Speed 1h It's one of the flattest places in North America, a giant expanse of salt so vast you can see the curvature of the earth. Each year thousands of hot-rudders make the pilgrimage to the…
  30. Episode 30: Deep Sea Drillers Jan 20, 2013 · 1h The F-4 Phantom has flown in Air Force squadrons from the United States, Europe and Asia. Its speed, agility, and firepower make it one of the most accurate and lethal fighter jets in the…
  31. Episode 31: Earthquake Glasshouse 1h 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?
  32. Episode 32: Extreme Railway 1h This is the story of the battle to build a railway across one of the most extreme environments on Earth. To lay down over a thousand kilometres of track in a remote wilderness. To drive 7…
  33. Episode 33: Mega Breakdown: Speed 1h It's one of the flattest places in North America, a giant expanse of salt so vast you can see the curvature of the earth. Each year thousands of hot-rudders make the pilgrimage to the…
  34. Episode 34: Mega Breakdown: Phantom Jet 1h The F-4 Phantom has flown in Air Force squadrons from the United States, Europe and Asia. Its speed, agility, and firepower make it one of the most accurate and lethal fighter jets in the…
  35. Episode 35: The Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi Jan 28, 2011 · 1h
  36. Episode 36: Dubai's 5-Star Racecourse May 10, 2012 · 1h 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?
  37. Episode 41: World Record Cruise Ship Nov 18, 2010 · 1h Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, one of the world's largest cruise ships, which features 16 decks and can accommodate 5400 passengers.