In a space of less than a mile, seven bridges link Newcastle with Gateshead including the distinctive shape of the Tyne Bridge. But what kind of human endeavour goes into imagining and realising such ...

Between the Bering Strait land bridge theory—the idea that humans came to North America by crossing an ancient strip of land between Russia and Alaska—and archaeological evidence of arches that date ...

The 2008 Summer Olympics and the booming Chinese economy have created a frantic pace of construction in China. That provided a perfect laboratory for 18 Brigham Young University civil engineering ...

A history of the Berlin Wall, the “wall of shame” that divided East and West Germany from 1961 to 1989. The hour chronicles escape attempts and how East German authorities responded to them, and also ...

Writer Erica Wagner, engineer Sean Wilkinson and architect Simon Roberts discuss the vision and the practicalities involved in building bridges. Rana Mitter chairs. Show more In a space of less than a ...

'National Geographic Channel MegaStructures' takes a look at the construction history of Boston Big Dig project. Costing almost 15 billion dollars and taking almost 20 yrs to complete, the Boston's ...

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