19 September 2005 (2005-09-19) – 16 December 2010 (2010-12-16)
Mega Builders is a documentary television series appearing on the Discovery Channel and Science 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 building Tao Zhu Yin Yuan was built over 11 years.[1]
Noting that the show covers the Bhumibol Bridge, Gotthard Base Tunnel, and North American and Madrid initiatives to reduce traffic congestion, The Daily Telegraph's Kirsty Heysen said, "This great series some of these hugely ambitious undertakings."[4] Brad Newsome of The 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] The Sunday 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 newspaper Correio 24 Horas [pt] wrote that Mega Builders "is quite enlightening about the reasons why Rio de Janeiro, the Olympic city, is currently left without any good-quality stadium in working order".[7]
^Chen, Jianxing 陳建興 (2022-12-13). "Discovery革新獻映《建築巨擘：陶朱隱園》" [Discovery innovatively presents "Mega Builders: Tao Zhu Yin Yuan"]. China Daily News (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2024-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
