Mike Slee
Director
Megastructures (2004)
Season 4
MegaStructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia. Each episode is an educational look of varying depth into the construction, operation, and staffing of various structures or construction projects, but not ordinary construction products. Generally containing interviews with designers and project managers, it presents the problems of construction and the methodology or techniques used to overcome obstacles. In some cases this involved the development of new materials or products that are now in general use within the construction industry. MegaStructures focuses on constructions that are extreme; in the sense that they are the biggest, tallest, longest, or deepest in the world. Alternatively, a project may appear if it had an element of novelty or are a world first. This type of project is known as a Megaproject.
Released Jan. 1, 2004
Episode 60 min
2+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.real-life, imdb.reenactment
Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV + 4 more, Magellan TV, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Xive TV Documentaries Amazon Channel
Production Companies: National Geographic
Network: National Geographic
Country: United States
Languages:
English,
Hungarian,
French
S4E1 - Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)
Megastructures heads to the tiny desert kingdom of Dubai to explore the remarkable engineering behind the seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel. Five years in the making, this striking building stands like a gigantic white sail off the shore of Dubai. As this programme reveals, a refusal to compromise on the part of the hotel’s young designers ensured that the project pushed the boundaries of design. The Burj Al-Arab was envisaged by Dubai’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as a means of diversifying the country’s economy away from oil into tourism. The Sheikh dreamt of a luxury hotel that would put Dubai on the world map, and surprised many by choosing a relatively inexperienced British firm to supply the design.
Aug. 25, 2007, midnight
S4E2 - Ultimate Structures: Super Copter
July 14, 2007, midnight
S4E3 - 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.
July 16, 2007, midnight
S4E4 - South Pole Station
Welcome to the South Pole, one of the most isolated places on the planet. For decades, the South Pole has been a haven for astronomy, climatology, and other science fields. Now, nearly 50 years after the first research station was built, a team of mega-builders is daring to construct a 21st century science research facility: the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Nov. 6, 2007, midnight
S4E5 - Beijing Water Cube
May 13, 2008, midnight
S4E6 - Episode 6
May 15, 2008, midnight
S4E7 - Episode 7
May 16, 2008, midnight
S4E8 - Episode 8
May 20, 2008, midnight
S4E9 - Deep Ocean Port (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.
May 27, 2008, midnight
S4E10 - Episode 10
May 29, 2008, midnight
S4E11 - The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
June 4, 2008, midnight
S4E12 - Beijing Olympic Stadium
Aug. 5, 2008, midnight
S4E13 - Episode 13
S4E14 - Episode 14
S4E15 - Future Trains
Feb. 7, 2012, midnight
S4E16 - 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.
July 23, 2007, midnight
S4E17 - Episode 17
S4E18 - 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.
S4E19 - Atom Smasher
July 31, 2008, midnight
S4E21 - Ultimate Structures: Super Sub
S4E22 - Sun Engine
S4E23 - Super Pipeline
S4E24 - Hawaii Superferry
Aug. 26, 2007, midnight
S4E25 - 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.
S4E26 - World Trade Center Bahrain
S4E27 - The World's Biggest Shredder
S4E28 - Impossible Hotels: Dubai
Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai.
S4E31 - Building Green Beijing
Nov. 30, 2011, midnight
S4E20 - Megabridges: China
Lupu Bridge in Shanghai, Runyang Bridge in Jiangsu Province, and Sutong Bridge near Suzhou.
Network: National Geographic
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1380 min.
Released: Jan. 1, 2004
Last Air Date: May 24, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G / 2+
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