Mega Builders

A team of 120 men will swing 2300 tons of steel into the Harlem River, turn it 90 degrees, hoist it eight stories in the air, park it, wire it and float it into place - all in the heart of the busiest city on Earth.

The most ambitious land reclamation project in history: 3.5 BILLION dollars worth. The Palm consists of the world’s two largest man-made islands. The world’s biggest dredgers, and about 80 million cubic meters of sand and rock are needed.

One man’s obsession to build and drive the fastest car on Earth takes a team of ex-NASA and Boeing engineers to building a rocket on wheels, meant to measure 56 feet and to go 1300 kilometers per hour at Mach 1.05.

Heavily damaged in the ‘89 earthquake, the race is on to get the San Francisco Bay bridge replacement built before the next quake hits. Everything about this project is gigantic, and involves the most powerful machines on the planet.

How about powering up an entire country? Run by gas and steam turbines, this huge power plant will be one of the most massive ever built – and it will be done in a remote and inhospitable environment within a time-frame some say is impossible.

The Hadron Collider is a gigantic particle-smasher, designed to discover the origins of the universe. Awe-inspiring in vision and scope, it’s also the most expensive physics experiment in history with a price-tag of 4 billion dollars.