Mega Builds - Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World

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.<BR><BR>A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026<BR><BR>'A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.' - Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men<BR><BR>'Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.' - Chris Broad, bestselling author of Abroad in Japan<BR><BR>---<BR><BR>Modern engineering is rewriting the rulebook and revolutionising how we live.<BR><BR>In Mega Builds, 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:- 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.<BR>Written in Fred's signature accessible style, Mega Builds 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>Meet the projects and people set to transform our very experience of life on earth.<BR><BR>Praise for Mega Builds:<BR><BR>'A fascinating exploration of the world's biggest and boldest construction projects.' - Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London<BR><BR>'Fred has a gift for turning megaprojects into stories you can feel.' - Grady Hillhouse, author of Engineering in Plain Sight and creator of Practical Engineering<BR><BR>'Superb... Mills rightly celebrates how thinking big is often the right answer.' - Christian Wolmar, author of British Rail and The Rise of the Railway