Builders tackle unique challenges and elevate engineering to new heights, constructing super structures such as Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium, Los Angeles' Wilshire Grand Center, and the Bayonne Bridge in New York and New Jersey.
To save our great cities from catastrophic flooding, engineers are raising some of the biggest sea defenses in history. Venice MOSE Wall, Delta Flume, Japan Tsunami Barrier, New Jersey Storm Defense.
Across the world, engineers are going to extreme lengths to keep the lights on. Gemini Wind Station, Iceland's Geothermal Power Plant, SmartHydro Turbine in the Amazon.
As humans push even further into the world's most extreme environments, the question is: how far can we go? A new breed of tools allows man to face deadly forces once thought impossible. On this episode: polar survival suit; thermal imaging fire fighter mask; big wave surfing emergency vest.
Across America, a new generation of projects are reshaping the country's infrastructure. In this episode: Los Angeles Subway, New Orleans Flood Defense, Tappan Zee Bridge, Mount Rushmore Preservation.
Brand new machines are helping explorers reveal mysteries once thought lost forever. Searching for the lost German submarine U-576, digging up one of Europe's largest buried artifacts, the Cochno Stone.
New technology is allowing us to build underground structures that far surpass any building on earth. Sanford Underground Research Lab, London Cross Rail and Mail Rail, Mexico City Emisor Oriente.
What does it takes to build in the world's coldest conditions? Russian nuclear icebreakers, laying fiber optic cable in the arctic ocean, building an arctic airport, constructing the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
A revolution in engineering is making today's technology as outdated as the horse and buggy. Lightning LS-218 electric motorcycle, the Hyperloop, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER.
