Episode
How Do They Do It?: Power Tunnel, Pizza Ovens, Playhouses
Overview
How do they build tunnels to prevent blackouts in one of the world's biggest cities? How do they turn millions of hectares of pine forest into perfect pieces of timber?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2015-10-01
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Power Tunnel, Pizza Ovens, Playhouses is Episode 20 in Season 12 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2015-10-01. The runtime is 22 min.
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