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- Travel to Canada's Northwest Territories where monster machines are moving mountains of gem-studded earth at the Ekati Diamond Mine. Here, in the brutal sub-Arctic, meet a trio of the world's most hardcore and mega mining machines.
- Worlds longest bridge over open water.
- Highway with no speed limit build by Germany during the great depression to increase employment.
- Looks at the design, planning and construction of the Boston Big Dig, in which a whole new transport network is built beneath the city of Boston, USA.
- French and English drillers meet in the middle to construct a long hi-speed train tunnel.
- Mammoth machines. Trash piled twenty stories high. Man and technology in a battle against a tidal wave of waste. Uncover the gargantuan world of garbage at America's largest active Mega Dump: Puente Hills, California. Most landfills take in 2,000 tons of trash a day -- this one processes 2,000 tons an hour. How does it do it? With mega machines and mega ingenuity. Take a spin in the 120,000-pound Bomag Compactor, with its 55-inch garbage-crushing steel wheels. Power up with methane gas... Puente Hills powers over 100,000 homes and a fleet of vehicles with their landfill gas. And find out what happens to your trash when you're not looking. You're going behind the scenes at LA's dirtiest suburb. Call it big, call it nasty, but don't you dare call it just a hole in the ground!
- Constructed with non government funding, which had to overcome numerous opposition.
- Worlds Largest dam at time of completion.
- Explore the engineering behind the Oresund Bridge linking Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Look at how one of Dubai's greatest engineering marvel came to be. Examining the Palm Island from it's design to method of construction, facing the problems like the effects from the September 11 fears to corrosion and weather.
- Largest dam in Brazil. Challenges included saving wild animals and buying farm land from long time residents.
- Kansai International Airport is a man made island which is threatened by the elements, which could sink into the sea.
- Climb aboard the cargo ship OOCL Atlanta as she journeys from Hong Kong to Singapore. How does a minimal crew keep this 1000 ft long vessel afloat in treacherous seas?