Season 5
200819 episodes
A historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.
Episode 4
Shanghai Super Tower
May 20, 2008
The design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.
Episode 6
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
May 29, 2008
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
Episode 7
The World's Biggest Cruise Liner
June 4, 2008
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
Episode 9
Icelandic Super Dam
June 18, 2008
This episode looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, the drilling of 30-mile-long tunnels and the construction of a gigantic underground power plant.
Episode 14
World Trade Center Bahrain
Episode 15
Atom Smasher
January 8, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.
Episode 22
The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
June 4, 2008
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
Episode 24
Impossible Build
September 3, 2008
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.
