S2007 E1 • Electric Ocean

Three teams of engineers are locked in a race to harness what may be the most powerful form of green energy: swift tidal currents and battering waves, the power of the oceans.

Première diffusion : 12 mai 2007

S2007 E2 • Queen Mary 2

Megastructures will take you on a voyage through the largest ocean liner ever built, from the cutting of the first steel panel to the installation of the iconic red and black funnel of this 800 million dollar giant of the seas.

Première diffusion : 16 juillet 2007

S2007 E3 • Building the World

The engineering, design and construction of a man-made archipelago, built in the shape of a world map, just off the coast off Dubai, the project of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Première diffusion : 23 juillet 2007

S2007 E4 • Impossible Hotels: Dubai

Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai.

Première diffusion : 12 août 2007

S2007 E5 • L’hôtel 7 étoiles de Dubaï

Après l'épuisement des ressources pétrolières, Dubaï tente de devenir la première destination touristique du monde. Le palace Burj al Arab, en construction sur une île artificielle, est la preuve d'innovations incroyables en matière d'ingénierie. Véritable icône architecturale du xxie siècle, cette tour, mesurant plus de 320 mètres de hauteur, émerge de la mer telle la voile d'un navire. Comment ses concepteurs, pourtant novices en la matière, ont-ils planifié et réalisé la construction du plus grand et du plus luxueux hôtel au monde ?

Première diffusion : 25 août 2007

S2007 E6 • Extreme Alaska

Building Extreme Alaska is about how nature engineered and built America's most rugged state, rock by rock. The State of Alaska is a vast and powerful natural structure forged over millions of years and boasts some of the world's most extreme environments. Alaska is raw and radical - natural engineering - taken to its limit. The construction zone of mountains, volcanoes, glaciers and earthquakes still keep Alaska humming. Building Extreme Alaska leads you through the working parts of this natural mechanical engineering machine.

S2007 E7 • China's Ultimate Port

In 2002 Chinese engineers and workers tackled one of the biggest construction projects on earth. Thirty kilometers out to sea in the middle of the ocean is the location for Yangshan Deep Water Port. With twenty kilometers of quay and fifty berths Yangshan is destined to become the biggest deepwater port ever built. Linked to China by the worlds second-longest ocean bridge Yangshans deep water allows the worlds biggest container ships to come calling. Its massive cranes cutting-edge control system and focused personnel are already shattering records for loading and unloading gigantic container ships and its not even finished being built.

S2007 E8 • Building Green Beijing

Embarking on a quest to design and build a meeting place for athletes and their families at the Games, the designers of the Olympic Rendezvous must come up with a design that genuinely reflects green ideas and complements the green themed games.

S2007 E9 • Super Sub (Ultimate Sub)

S2007 E10 • World's Biggest Casino

The Venetian Macao, the world's biggest casino in Macau.

S2007 E11 • Ice Hotel

S2007 E20 • Future Trains

The maglev train of Germany is investigated.