Engineering feats around the globe keep getting bigger and more ambitious. The most awe-inspiring modern achievements ever conceived are explored as builders design and construct projects so huge they're almost beyond imagination.
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Turning Torso
In Sweden, the construction of the world's largest residential structure is underway.
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Venice Flood Gates
Find out what measures are required of Venetians as experts attempt to keep the world's most beautiful city from going underwater.
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Container Ships
New cargo vessels are changing the industry. Shipbuilders are making them so huge, they require the re-dredging and retrofitting of the world's cargo ports and canals.
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Oakland Bay Bridge
The New Bay Bridge is the biggest construction project in California history. This two-mile, earthquake-proof road will replace the most heavily trafficked bridge in the country; the span linking San Francisco to Oakland and the East Bay.
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Iceland Tunnels
The Eastern Highland, a vast plateau 100 miles south of the Artic Circle, is the site of a bold challenge of extreme engineering. World-class tunnel diggers are carving more than 45 miles of tunnels through solid rock hundreds of feet underground.
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Off-Shore Oil Platforms
America runs on oil. One-third of that oil gets pumped from wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Follow the dangerous construction of the real workhorses of America's offshore drilling industry; the massive and mobile contraptions known as jack-up rigs.
Danny Forster
Pip Gilmour
Joel Olicker
Tug Yourgrau
Rebecca Donahue
