''Mega Builders'' is a

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

television series appearing on the

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and

Science Channel Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel features programming focusing on science related to wilderness survival, engineering, manu ...

. 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.

Episode list

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Reception

Noting that the show covers the Bhumibol Bridge,

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, and North American and Madrid initiatives to reduce

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, ''

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''s Kirsty Heysen said, "This great series some of these hugely ambitious undertakings." Brad Newsome of ''

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'' 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." 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." The Brazilian newspaper ' wrote that ''Mega Builders'' "is quite enlightening about the reasons why

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, the Olympic city, is currently left without any good-quality stadium in working order".

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* * {{Discovery Channel programming Engineering projects Discovery Channel (Canadian TV channel) original programming Documentary television series about industry Construction in the United States Channel 5 (British TV channel) documentary series 2005 Canadian television series debuts 2010 Canadian television series endings 2000s Canadian documentary television series