MegaStructures: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MegaStructures Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Bridge Breakdown
May 15, 2008
A historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.
Shanghai Super Tower
May 20, 2008
The design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.
Sinking an Aircraft Carrier
May 29, 2008
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
The World's Biggest Cruise Liner
Jun 4, 2008
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating livin
Icelandic Super Dam
Jun 18, 2008
This episode looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, the drilling of 30-mile-l
Atom Smasher
Jan 8, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.
The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
Jun 4, 2008
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
Impossible Build
Sep 3, 2008
The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating livin