Big Bigger Biggest

Description: Aircraft Carrier, airport, bridge, this stuff is BIG!

Newest Review: ... episodes made, these are: aircraft carriers, airports (concentrating on Heathrow's terminal 5), bridges (Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan) and skyscrapers (Burj Dubai). Watching how these buildings have evolved is fascinating and often reveals things that you'd never think about when looking at the building. For example, one major concern when building a skyscraper is the elevators, which have ... more

... to have excellent brakes to stop the carriage falling down the lift shaft, should the cable ever snap. When building a skyscraper as tall as the Burj Arab (which is over 800m tall) how do you transport enough people to the top? Simple, innovate and creat...more

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Big Bigger Biggest: How did they make that!? (286 words)
by - written on 14/07/09 (Very useful, 20 readings)
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Big, Bigger, Biggest (BBB from now on to stop me typing it out again) is a series of documentaries from the National Geographic channel which is available to view on Sky - if you have the documentaries mix. BBB looks at a modern structures and explains how earlier advances in technology allowed for the new superstructure to be built. To date, there have only been 4 episodes made, these are: aircraft carriers, airports (concentrating on Heathrow's terminal 5), bridges (Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan) and skyscrapers (Burj Dubai). Watching how these buildings have evolved is fascinating and often reveals things that you'd never think about ... Read the complete review

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