MegaStructures: Season 4

Tập 1 2007-05-17 | 60 min Tập 2 2007-07-09 | 60 min Megastructures heads to the tiny desert kingdom of Dubai to explore the remarkable engineering behind the seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel. Five years in the making, this striking building stands like a gigantic white sail off the shore of Dubai. As this programme reveals, a refusal to compromise on the part of the hotel’s young designers ensured that the project pushed the boundaries of design. The Burj Al-Arab was envisaged by Dubai’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as a means of diversifying the country’s economy away from oil into tourism. The Sheikh dreamt of a luxury hotel that would put Dubai on the world map, and surprised many by choosing a relatively inexperienced British firm to supply the design. Tập 3 2007-07-14 | 60 min Tập 4 2007-07-16 | 60 min Megastructures will take you on a voyage through the largest ocean liner ever built, from the cutting of the first steel panel to the installation of the iconic red and black funnel of this 800 million dollar giant of the seas. Tập 5 2008-08-26 | 60 min Tập 6 2007-11-06 | 60 min Welcome to the South Pole, one of the most isolated places on the planet. For decades, the South Pole has been a haven for astronomy, climatology, and other science fields. Now, nearly 50 years after the first research station was built, a team of mega-builders is daring to construct a 21st century science research facility: the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Tập 8 2008-05-20 | 60 min Tập 9 2008-05-27 | 60 min In 2002 Chinese engineers and workers tackled one of the biggest construction projects on earth. Thirty kilometers out to sea in the middle of the ocean is the location for Yangshan Deep Water Port. With twenty kilometers of quay and fifty berths Yangshan is destined to become the biggest deepwater port ever built. Linked to China by the worlds second-longest ocean bridge Yangshans deep water allows the worlds biggest container ships to come calling. Its massive cranes cutting-edge control system and focused personnel are already shattering records for loading and unloading gigantic container ships and its not even finished being built. Tập 10 2008-05-29 | 60 min Tập 11 2008-06-04 | 60 min Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas". Tập 12 2008-08-05 | 60 min Tập 13 60 min Tập 14 60 min Tập 15 2012-02-07 | 60 min Tập 16 2007-07-23 | 60 min The engineering, design and construction of a man-made archipelago, built in the shape of a world map, just off the coast off Dubai, the project of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Tập 17 60 min Tập 18 60 min Embarking on a quest to design and build a meeting place for athletes and their families at the Games, the designers of the Olympic Rendezvous must come up with a design that genuinely reflects green ideas and complements the green themed games. Tập 19 2008-07-31 | 60 min Tập 20 60 min Lupu Bridge in Shanghai, Runyang Bridge in Jiangsu Province, and Sutong Bridge near Suzhou. Tập 21 60 min Tập 22 60 min Tập 23 60 min Tập 24 2007-08-26 | 60 min Tập 25 60 min Building Extreme Alaska is about how nature engineered and built America's most rugged state, rock by rock. The State of Alaska is a vast and powerful natural structure forged over millions of years and boasts some of the world's most extreme environments. Alaska is raw and radical - natural engineering - taken to its limit. The construction zone of mountains, volcanoes, glaciers and earthquakes still keep Alaska humming. Building Extreme Alaska leads you through the working parts of this natural mechanical engineering machine. Tập 26 60 min Tập 27 60 min Tập 28 60 min Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai. Tập 31 2011-11-30 | 60 min Tập 107 2008-05-16 | 60 min