Name: Extreme Engineering
Uploaded: 2025-04-19T03:37:00.000Z
Description: Engineering feats around the globe keep getting bigger and more ambitious. The most awe-inspiring modern achievements ever conceived are explored as builders design and construct projects so huge they're almost beyond imagination.

Engineering feats around the globe keep getting bigger and more ambitious. The most awe-inspiring modern achievements ever conceived are explored as builders design and construct projects so huge they're almost beyond imagination.

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Turning Torso not only aims to be the tallest building in Northern Europe, but it's designed to make a stunning, 90-degree turn before reaching it's final floor, 600 feet up.

Turning Torso

To prevent catastrophic flooding in Venice, Italy, a barrier must be constructed to hold off the Adriatic Sea. The enormous project calls for 79 steel floodgates, each bigger than a football field and weighing over 300 tons.

Venice Flood Gates

A new wave of mega-sized container ships are now under construction and changing the shipping industry. These new ships are so massive they will require retrofitting of the world's cargo ports and canals.

Container Ships

The Oakland Bay Bridge is an earthquake-proof span that's the largest construction project in California history. The bridge will link San Francisco to Oakland, replacing the most heavily trafficked bridge in the US.

Oakland Bay Bridge

Engineers face the extreme challenge of carving a 45-mile tunnel in Iceland, at a dangerous site. The tunnel is part of a project to construct one of the world's largest dams, and the construction comes with enormous costs.

Iceland Tunnels

Construction crews at a Mississippi shipyard are tasked with taking thousands of tons of steel and building a state-of-the-art oil rig. Crews must work quickly to stay on time and on budget, but one false move could be fatal.

Off-Shore Oil Platforms

The longest, cable-stayed bridge in the US is constructed at one of the most difficult sites imaginable, in Charleston, South Carolina, where hurricanes, earthquakes and the world's biggest container ships are a constant threat.

Cooper River Bridge

French engineers are erecting the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct. When complete, the massive cable-stayed bridge will solve enormous traffic issues in France and will be Europe's largest engineering project.

Milau Viaduct

Open-pit mine crews work around the clock digging up iron ore to meet the global demand for steel production. To meet their demands, engineers have developed the fastest, most technologically advanced excavator ever built.

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