19 September 2005 (2005-09-19) – 16 December 2010 (2010-12-16)
Mega Builders is adocumentary television series appearing on theDiscovery Channel andScience Channel. Each episode takes a look into the people and the machines involved into the construction of many huge engineering projects.
Discovery Channel Taiwan broadcast a version of the series in 2022 that covered how the residential high-rise buildingTao Zhu Yin Yuan was built over 11 years.[1]
Noting that the show covers theBhumibol Bridge,Gotthard Base Tunnel, and North American and Madrid initiatives to reducetraffic congestion,The Daily Telegraph's Kirsty Heysen said, "This great series some of these hugely ambitious undertakings."[4] Brad Newsome ofThe 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] TheSunday 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 newspaperCorreio 24 Horas [pt] wrote thatMega Builders "is quite enlightening about the reasons whyRio de Janeiro, the Olympic city, is currently left without any good-quality stadium in working order".[7]
