Mega Builders

With a price tag of 6 Billion American Dollars, The Gotthard Base Tunnel, between Lucerne and Milan, is a mega project by any standard. With 3,000 meter-high mountains in their path, the geology under the Alps remains unknown, no matter how much exploration is done it can present surprises right up to the last minute.

At Six Flags Magic Mountain the worlds longest, fastest and tallest Flying Roller Coaster is under construction. If the Park can't get the ride up, tested and ready for the Spring break crowds 2007 this 21 million dollar investment won't be worth a penny.

Under a sweltering sun in the heart of Madrid, Spanish construction workers are working non-stop on the job of a lifetime... the M-30 Madrid project. At a cost of 3.7 billion Euros it is the largest urban tunneling system ever undertaken, and one of the most challenging.

The goal is to turn the coastal waters off southern British Columbia in Canada into the wreck-diving capital of the world by sinking massive objects, wait a few years for the fi sh to move in, and the corals to grow. This time they are sinking a retired Boeing 737.

The new 13-km Industrial Ring Road will be a combination of elevated roads, bridges and tunnels, designed to help ease the congestion in Bangkok. The centerpiece of this construction project is a bridge so huge and so awesome, that its creators have named it The Bangkok Mega Bridge.

In a rugged canyon, just downriver from the Hoover Dam, a team of construction veterans is hard at work, building the biggest concrete-arch bridge on the continent. This spectacular structure will stretch almost two thousand feet across the Colorado River, between Nevada and Arizona.

An international team of the best construction engineers on the planet are building the world's tallest skyscraper in the United Arab Emirate city of Dubai.