Mega Builders

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Mega Builders
Country of origin Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes36
Production
Running time45 minutes (without commercials)
Production companies Barna-Alper Productions
Mega Builders III Productions
Original release
Network Discovery Channel
Release19 September 2005 (2005-09-19) 
16 December 2010 (2010-12-16)

Mega Builders is a documentary television series appearing on the Discovery Channel and Science Channel. Each episode takes a look into the people and the machines involved into the construction of many huge engineering projects.

Contents

Discovery Channel Taiwan broadcast a version of the series in 2022 that covered how the residential high-rise building Tao Zhu Yin Yuan was built over 11 years. [1]

Episode list

Season 1

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E01Spanning the Harlem19/Sep/2005
S01E02Fantasy Islands19/Sep/2005
S01E03The Big Collider [2] 24/Nov/2005
S01E04World's Fastest Wheels09/Dec/2005

Season 2

EpisodeNameAirdate
S02E01Racing to Power Up24/Aug/2006
S02E02Quake-Proofing an Icon25/Oct/2006
S02E03Roller Coaster09/Nov/2006
S02E04Mega Bridge [3] 22/Nov/2006
S02E05Moving Mountains29/Nov/2006
S02E06Madrid's Big Dig10/Jan/2007
S02E07Crossing Colorado17/Jan/2007
S02E08Sinking Wings24/Jan/2007
S02E09Extreme Elevation31/Jan/2007

Season 3

EpisodeNameAirdate
S03E01Raising The Roof05/Sep/2007
S03E02The Big Lift12/Sep/2007
S03E03Worlds Biggest Wave Machine19/Sep/2007
S03E04Stolen Power26/Sep/2007
S03E05Mighty Shovel03/Oct/2007
S03E06Ice Hotel10/Oct/2007
S03E07Arctic Ice Crusher17/Oct/2007

Season 4

EpisodeNameAirdate
S04E01Big Rig14/Oct/2009
S04E02Blockbuster Bridge21/Oct/2009
S04E03Floating Bridge28/Oct/2009
S04E04Glitz City04/Nov/2009
S04E05Hard Rock Park11/Nov/2009
S04E06 King of the Container Ships 18/Nov/2009
S04E07Venice Code Red25/Nov/2009

Season 5

EpisodeNameAirdate
S05-E01Bosphorus Tunnel28/Oct/2010
S05-E02Illogical Crossing04/Nov/2010
S05-E03Peak Power11/Nov/2010
S05-E04World Class Stadium18/Nov/2010
S05-E05Spanning the Saigon River02/Dec/2010
S05-E06London Aquatics Centre09/Dec/2010
S05-E07Gautrain16/Dec/2010

Reception

Noting that the show covers the Bhumibol Bridge, Gotthard Base Tunnel, and North American and Madrid initiatives to reduce traffic congestion, The Daily Telegraph 's Kirsty Heysen said, "This great series some of these hugely ambitious undertakings." [4] Brad Newsome of The Age praised the show, writing, "It's not your average construction-telly yawn tonight as we follow the annual building of Sweden's famed ice hotel." [5] The Sunday Mail stated, "Colourful characters and bigger-than Ben Hur projects fill this latest series about the world's largest and most mind-boggling engineering challenges." [6] The Brazilian newspaper Correio 24 Horas  [ pt ] wrote that Mega Builders "is quite enlightening about the reasons why Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic city, is currently left without any good-quality stadium in working order". [7]

See also

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