Season 4 · Episode 5 — Hawaii Superferry
MegaStructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia. Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products. Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry. MegaStructures focuses on constructions that are extreme; in the sense that they are the biggest, tallest, longest, or deepest in the world. Alternatively, a project may appear if it had an element of novelty or are a world first. This type of project is known as a Megaproject.
Season 4 episodes
E1E2Megastructures heads to the tiny desert kingdom of Dubai to explore the remarkable engineering behind the seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel. Fi…
E3E4Megastructures will take you on a voyage through the largest ocean liner ever built, from the cutting of the first steel panel to the insta…
E5E6Welcome to the South Pole, one of the most isolated places on the planet. For decades, the South Pole has been a haven for astronomy, clima…
E8E9In 2002 Chinese engineers and workers tackled one of the biggest construction projects on earth. Thirty kilometers out to sea in the middle…
E10E11Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
E12E13E14E15E16The engineering, design and construction of a man-made archipelago, built in the shape of a world map, just off the coast off Dubai, the pr…
E17E18Embarking on a quest to design and build a meeting place for athletes and their families at the Games, the designers of the Olympic Rendezv…
E19E20Lupu Bridge in Shanghai, Runyang Bridge in Jiangsu Province, and Sutong Bridge near Suzhou.
E21E22E23E24E25Building Extreme Alaska is about how nature engineered and built America's most rugged state, rock by rock. The State of Alaska is a vast a…
E26E27E28Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai.
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