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Mega Builds
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. Todays world is no different.In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the s......
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<b>Discover the incredible, fact-packed new book shining a light on the world’s biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future.</b><br><br>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<br>A <i>NEW SCIENTIST</i> BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026<br><br><b>‘A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.’</b> – Mark Cooper-Jones, author of <i>This Way Up</i> by the Map Men<br><br><b>‘Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.’</b> – Chris Broad, bestselling author of <i>Abroad in Japan</i><br><br>---<br><br><b>Modern engineering is rewriting the rulebook and revolutionising how we live.</b><br><br>In <i>Mega Builds</i>, Fred Mills – the founder of global construction platform The B1M - takes you inside ten of the most extraordinary engineering projects that are reshaping our modern world.<br><br>From a 170km-long smart city in Saudi Arabia, to Japan’s levitating railway and France’s bold quest for limitless energy, Mills delivers an eye-opening tour of the biggest engineering challenges set to change the world as we know it.<br><br>By the end of this book, you’ll learn:<ul><li>Why the world’s biggest city has been built in the worst place imaginable.</li><li>Where the vision of a single ruler in the desert is rewriting our understanding of what’s possible.</li><li>What drives us to build ever-higher buildings and design ever-faster trains.</li><li>And above all, how the dizzying scale of human imagination will inform the future of the man-made world.</li></ul><p><br>Written in Fred’s signature accessible style, <i>Mega Builds</i> demystifies the complexities while exploring the economic, environmental and societal stakes of building at unprecedented scale.<br><br>The trajectory of our civilisation is being authored today all around us, not in words on a page, but in steel and concrete.<br><br><b>Meet the projects and people set to transform our very experience of life on earth.</b><br><br><u>Praise for <i>Mega Builds:</i></u><br><br><b>‘A</b> <b>fascinating exploration of the world’s biggest and boldest construction projects</b>.’ – Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London<br><br>‘Fred has <b>a gift </b>for turning megaprojects into<b> stories you can feel.’</b> – Grady Hillhouse, author of <i>Engineering in Plain Sight </i>and creator of Practical Engineering<br><br>‘<b>Superb… </b>Mills rightly celebrates how thinking big is often the right answer.’ – Christian Wolmar, author of <i>British Rail</i> and <i>The Rise of the Railway</i></p>
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| book typ | boker, fagboker, teknologi ingenior og primaer, industri transport og service |
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