Megastructures Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

World's Tallest Hotel

Soaring 2716 feet about the city of Dubai, Burj Khalita took seven years to build and cost a staggering $1.5 billion.

Episode 2

The South Pole Project

Tue, Nov 6, 2007

Complete buildings including a lab and living quarters that rises on jacked up supports.

Episode 5

Beijing Water Cube

Tue, May 13, 200850 mins

China has erected some of the greatest monuments on Earth. When they held the Olympic games in Beijing, the main stadium was a feat of architectural beauty It was up to engineers to design the Beijing Water Cube to match it.

Episode 6

Sinking an Aircraft Carrier

Thu, May 29, 2008

An old aircraft carrier is sunk to create an artificial reef, firstly remove anything valuable and hazardous to marine environment.

Episode 7

Bridge Breakdown

Thu, May 15, 2008

Episode 8

Shanghai Super Tower

Wed, Jan 28, 202650 mins

Take 60,000 tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2,000 dedicated Chinese workers, and some of the best design brains in the business, and the Shanghai World Financial Center is what you get.

Episode 15

Atom Smasher

Tue, Jan 8, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, A look at the human interest and the technological innovation behind some of the world's most noteworthy structures.

Episode 17

Train Wreck

Wed, Mar 25, 2009

How to disassemble an old locomotive and thereby take full advantage of all the material and make good money.

Episode 19

SMART Tunnel

Wed, Jan 28, 2026

Episode 20

Future Trains

Wed, Jan 28, 202645 mins

Speeding at 430 km/h, a futuristic levitating train makes the 30 km journey from the Pudong to Shanghaiin in just 8 minutes. As the world's first operating electromagnetic levitation train system, the MAGLEV travels at lightning speed and could change the way we look at travel technology forever.