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Building Giants

Building Giants

They tower over urban landscapes, spread across city blocks and span mountainous regions, each a modern marvel of technological innovation. But how are the world's most remarkable superstructures built? This series showcases key aspects, with footage filmed during construction along with CGI to reveal building processes with astonishing detail. Take, for example, the 71,000 seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The $1.4 billion stadium is hailed as an architectural wonder because of its eight-petal retractable roof. Other episodes include a look at a cruise ship that holds more than 7,000 passengers and crew members; a flood barrier in Venice designed to prevent the ancient city from sinking into the ocean; an ambitious circular subway system running directly underneath Copenhagen, Denmark; and the world's longest suspension bridge ever built in the Arctic Circle.
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Season 510 of 10 Episodes

  • They tower over urban landscapes, spread across city blocks and span mountainous regions, each a modern marvel. This series showcases how the world's most remarkable superstructures are built, with construction footage and CGI.

  • Tackle icy seas and powerful currents in Denmark as crews build a four-kilometre-long megabridge; watch engineers swing 4,000-tonne girders over a shipping lane and install tensioned cables on a span that will connect Scandinavia to mainland Europe.

  • In Liverpool, England, a 52,000-seat stadium is under construction on a former dock.

  • In Germany, engineers battle groundwater, tight spaces and complex logistics to build Frankfurt Airport's Terminal Three, a mega hub designed to handle 19 million passengers a year.

  • The engineers in the Netherlands race to build a state-of-the-art cargo ship designed to supply the remote islands in the South Pacific.

  • Navigate crushing pressure and unstable geology beneath the Alps as crews carve the world's longest railway tunnel; tag along as engineers use 2,300-tonne tunneling machines and explosives to create a 57-kilometer rail link between Lyon and Turin.

  • Following the race to build the world's next generation of engineering wonders - structures and machines that are more ambitious and more advanced than anything that has ever been seen.

  • In Poland, engineers contend with unstable mountains and methane gas while constructing a new high-speed railway through the Carpathian foothills.

  • In Colorado, engineers contend with drought, extreme weather conditions and water pressure to raise a 70-year-old dam to a record height.

  • In Greece, engineers want to build the country's first real skyscraper; they have to take into account earthquakes, unstable ground, and strong winds from the Mediterranean.
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They tower over urban landscapes, spread across city blocks and span mountainous regions, each a modern marvel of technological innovation. But how are the world's most remarkable superstructures built? This series showcases key aspects, with footage filmed during construction along with CGI to reveal building processes with astonishing detail. Take, for example, the 71,000 seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The $1.4 billion stadium is hailed as an architectural wonder because of its eight-petal retractable roof. Other episodes include a look at a cruise ship that holds more than 7,000 passengers and crew members; a flood barrier in Venice designed to prevent the ancient city from sinking into the ocean; an ambitious circular subway system running directly underneath Copenhagen, Denmark; and the world's longest suspension bridge ever built in the Arctic Circle.

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Julian Barratt, Erleen Hatfield, Avrey Martin

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