Megastructures

- Season 3

(2005)

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Explore the engineering behind the Oresund Bridge linking Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark.

Worlds Largest dam at time of completion.

Mammoth machines. Trash piled twenty stories high. Man and technology in a battle against a tidal wave of waste. Uncover the gargantuan world of garbage at America's largest active Mega Dump: Puente Hills, California. Most landfills take in 2,000 tons of trash a day -- this one processes 2,000 tons an hour. How does it do it? With mega machines and mega ingenuity. Take a spin in the 120,000-pound Bomag Compactor, with its 55-inch garbage-crushing steel wheels. Power up with methane gas... Puente Hills powers over 100,000 homes and a fleet of vehicles with their ...

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A study of the Panama Canal, which ranks as one of the world's greatest engineering feats. Included: the technology and manpower required to build the waterway, which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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