MegaBuilders

Capturing the biggest, most complex, most stressful and most dangerous engineering projects around the world, Megabuilders chronicles the most awe-inspiring construction projects in modern engineering.
IMDb 6.920056 episodes7+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Spanning the Harlem (aka New York Bridge)
    September 17, 2005
    46min
    7+
    Glen Aitken and his team from Cambridge, Ontario will use a 288-wheel extreme machine, called the Transporter to lift a massive bridge span off the ocean barge that carried it to New York from Alabama where it was built.
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  2. S1 E2 - Jet Car
    September 21, 2005
    7+
    Racecar driver, Ed Shadle, begins a very dangerous quest - a quest to go faster on land than any man in history.
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  3. S1 E3 - Quake Proofing an Icon (aka San Francisco Bridge)
    September 28, 2005
    7+
    The challenges of the new San Francisco Bay Bridge are huge: How to build a strong foundation when there's no bedrock - only a sea of mud that quivers like jello in an earthquake. How to construct a bridge that will bend but won't break. And how to get it all finished before the next quake hits.
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  4. S1 E4 - Fantasy Islands (aka Dubai)
    September 17, 2005
    7+
    This documentary follows a pair of marine engineers as they stage manage a fleet of monster dredger ships and a 24-hour convoy of mega-trucks moving 14 million tons of rocks for the world's longest breakwater to protect the emerging island from the ravages of the sea.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Big Collider
    November 23, 2005
    7+
    No one knows what The World's Largest Machine will discover, but scientists around the world hope it might answer the big question: How was the universe created?
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  6. S1 E6 - Racing to Power Up (aka Algeria)
    October 12, 2005
    7+
    Esber Bitar specializes in daunting construction projects, but this time he's really under pressure.
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