MegaStructures — Season 5
19 episodesFirst aired 13 May 2008
E1Beijing Water Cube
May 20081h
- E2
Bridge Breakdown
May 20081h
A historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.
- E3
747 Destruction
May 20081h
- E4
Shanghai Super Tower
May 20081h
The design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.
- E5
China's Ultimate Port
May 20081h
- E6
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
May 20081h
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
- E7
The World's Biggest Cruise Liner
Jun 20081h
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
- E8
World's Biggest Casino
Jun 20081h
- E9
Icelandic Super Dam
Jun 20081h
This episode looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, the drilling of 30-mile-long tunnels and the construction of a gigantic underground power plant.
- E10
Beijing Olympic Stadium
Aug 20081h
- E12
Deep Earth Drillers
Dec 20081h
Mega Green Tech is in search of geothermal power.
- E14
World Trade Center Bahrain
1hNot yet aired
- E15
Atom Smasher
Jan 20081h
The Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.
- E21
South Pole Station
Jan 20081h
- E22
The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
Jun 20081h
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
- E24
Impossible Build
Sept 20081h
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
- E25
World Trade Center Bahrain
Jan 20091h
- E31
Grand Canyon Skywalk
Feb 20091h
- E32
Ultimate Skyscraper
Jan 20001h
