From the Great Pyramids of Giza to the Panama Canal: audacious building projects have been moulding history for millennia. These awe-inspiring undertakings are testament to the dizzying scale of human ambition and imagination, every megastructure a marker in the long story of human progress. Today''s world is no different. In Mega Builds , YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world. Nations and corporations are competing in an extraordinary bid to redraw the global geopolitical order and reset the boundaries of what might be possible for humanity. Whether it''s reporting from inside a hollowed-out mountain in a corner of Japan, on the world''s longest rail tunnel or the first-ever undersea roundabout deep beneath the remote Faroe Islands, this is science fiction made real. And Fred gives us a front row seat to a fascinating, fact-packed guided tour around the world , shining a spotlight on the incredible multi-trillion-dollar feats of engineering that serve as new chapters in the story of what''s to come.

Autorentext

Fred Mills is a British filmmaker and founder of The B1M YouTube channel, the largest and most subscribed-to construction channel in the world with over 3.7 million subscribers.

From California to Japan, Fred has had unprecedented on-the-ground access inside some of our planet's biggest megaprojects - no one else has travelled to so many. From walking into a nuclear fusion reactor, to climbing a megatall skyscraper and becoming the industry's leading mental health advocate, Fred's experiences and insights have made him the top construction influencer worldwide.

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Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on - all of it was built and enabled by construction.

In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world.

Fred gives us a front row seat to a fascinating, fact-packed guided tour around the world, shining a spotlight on the incredible feats of engineering that serve as new chapters in the story of what's to come.

By the end of this book, you'll learn:

• Why the world's biggest city has been built in the worst place imaginable.
• Where the vision of a single ruler in the desert is rewriting our understanding of what's possible.
• What drives us to build ever-higher buildings and design ever-faster trains.
• And above all, how the dizzying scale of human imagination will inform the future of the man-made world. The trajectory of our civilisation is being authored today, all around us, not in words on a page but in steel and concrete, by an industry that most people completely overlook.