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Megastructures Season 2008

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2008x01 Super Pipeline airdate unknown

Super Pipeline looks at one of the gas industry’s riskiest projects ever undertaken. By 2008, Britain will be connected to Norway via a 1,200 km super pipeli... read more

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2008x02 Atom Smasher aired Jan 08, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.

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2008x03 South Pole Station aired Jan 09, 2008

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 ... read more

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2008x04 Shanghai Super Tower aired May 14, 2008

The design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.

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2008x05 Beijing Water Cube aired May 21, 2008

Just in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, workers are feverishly putting the finishing touches on the National Aquatics Centre – the Beijing Water Cube. A ... read more

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2008x06 Bridge Breakdown aired May 15, 2008

Demolition of the (1927) Carquinez Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area

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2008x07 Sinking an Aircraft Carrier aired May 29, 2008

A specialist demolition team attempt to create the largest artificial reef in the world by sinking the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. As they battle through ... read more

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2008x08 The World's Biggest Cruiseliner aired Jun 04, 2008

Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".

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2008x09 North Branch Correctional Institution (Hi-Tech Prison) aired Jun 15, 2008

The North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI) will house 2,000 violent criminals. Its security measures are much more than technological marvels they are... read more

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2008x10 Icelandic Super Dam aired Jun 18, 2008

This episode looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, th... read more

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2008x11 Beijing Olympic Stadium (Building Green Beijing) aired Aug 05, 2008

2010 environmental improvement plan in Beijing, China

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2008x12 Impossible Build aired Sep 03, 2008

The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the ai... read more

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2008x13 Mega Breakdown: Italian Bridge aired Sep 10, 2008

A historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.

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2008x14 Deep Earth Drillers aired Dec 20, 2008

Mega Green Tech is in search of geothermal power.

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2008x15 Dam Busters aired Dec 30, 2008

A team of experts mobilises to demolish, excavate and recycle a 25,000 ton dam built of concrete and steel. The pressure is on: they have just half the time ... read more

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2008x16 Power Tower aired Jan 03, 2009

Witness the Bahrain World Trade Center. Two 50-story glass "sails" rise over 240 meters into the sky along the shores of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. This uni... read more

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2008x17 Hawaii Superferry airdate unknown

A team of workers in Alabama is creating the largest aluminium vessel of its kind for the waves of Hawaii. This 'super ferry' will hold shops, restaurants an... read more

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2008x18 Steam Drillers airdate unknown

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2008x19 Sun Engine airdate unknown

With fluctuating energy prices and concerns over global warming, solar power as a renewable energy is being seen in a new, more urgent, light.

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2008x20 World's Biggest Shredder airdate unknown

The world's largest recycling machine is the size of a factory. It reduces the equivalent of 450 cars an hour to an unrecognisable pulp, shredding 9 million ... read more

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2008x21 747 Breakdown airdate unknown

AeroTurbine in Goodyear, AZ breaks down and recycles a 747.

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2008x22 World Trade Centre Bahrain aired Jul 12, 2014

There are no such similar Buildings in the world. The Bahrain World Trade Center (also called Bahrain WTC or BWTC) is a 240-metre-high (787 ft), 50-floor, tw... read more

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2008x23 Hoover Dam Reinvented airdate unknown

Hoover Dam is regarded as an engineering masterpiece and an America icon. But what if it did not exist today? How would engineers build it today? In this one... read more

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