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It's the ultimate engineering challenge: rescue the magnificent city of Venice, Italy, before it is drowned by the Adriatic Sea. A fantastic 5.5 billion dollar plan is taking shape. It's called the "Mose project", after the biblical savior Moses. They're constructing 78 massive floodgates, up to 29 meters tall, that will lie on the seabed. Whenever a dangerous high tide threatens the city the gates are supposed to rise from water and hold back the sea. The dynamic woman at the helm; Chief Engineer, Dr. Maria Theresa Brotto, declares, "Without the Mose, we will lose Venice." But no one can predict when a colossal high tide will swamp the city and it's a race against time for the workers of the Mose project.

The world's biggest cargo ship is being built in Denmark, by Danes who trace shipbuilders in their family trees to the Vikings. With just 45 days in the dry-dock to complete this mammoth ship, can the team overcome problems and delays to finish on time?

The world's first rock and roll theme park: Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, SC. Unforeseen problems and one-of-a-kind rides like Maximum RPM threaten to keep the veteran crew from finishing in time for the grand opening.

In Las Vegas -- the quintessential city of razzle-dazzle and bling -- MGM is going for the ultimate one-upmanship. The Hollywood lion is building a 31-hectare mini-city with all amenities for those living there or visiting. It'll cost a cool $9 billion -- the largest privately financed project in North America - ever. This is a story of a massive project being built in a very short time.

It will be one of the world's few floating bridges, built on concrete pontoons as long as football fields. Although the team is made up of veterans, none of them have ever built a floating bridge. Will delays keep them from finishing on time?

In South Korea engineers are fighting against the forces of the wild West Sea to build the Incheon Grand Bridge. It's part of a visionary plan to link the biggest airport in the nation, with a new international investment zone called New Songdo City. The unique structure combines three methods of bridge construction to create a single highway 12.3 kilometers long. As they fight the elements to build up Incheon Grand Bridge, they prove the strength of human determination.

The Aker H6e is the biggest oil rig on the planet - built for the extreme conditions of the Barents Sea. Marine operations chief Knut Engebretsen and his team have tight deadlines for some major moves to put this monster together. They have to "skid" eight-thousand-ton hull pieces on rails across a giant yard. The steel deck that goes on top of the hull weighs more than 11,000 tonnes. Raising it up in the air 10 stories will be one of the most extreme heavy lifts ever attempted. On top of these mega-challenges, this hardy crew of Norwegian engineers has to battle bad weather all the way.

A team of shipbuilders in South Korea has only 10 weeks to assemble the hull of the first combination oil tanker-icebreaker they’ve ever built. Along the way, they struggle with delays caused by weather, language barriers and the difficulties of the vessel’s two innovative $10 million propeller steering units. With some of the most dramatic footage ever captured on Mega Builders, witness some of the largest and fastest crane lifts ever seen!

How do you build the world’s largest snow and ice structure in the middle of a warm spell? With great difficulty! The construction of Sweden’s world famous ICEHOTEL is always a challenge because anything can go wrong… and often it does. You’d think that builders Ake Larrson and Arne Bergh could rely on cold weather 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. But they’re hit by a warm spell two weeks into their six week construction schedule. Megabuilders is on hand as Larrson and Bergh struggle against the elements to build their hotel out of 3,000 tonnes of ice and 30-thousand cubic meters of snow.

With gold prices sky high, Barrick Gold Corporation orders the world’s biggest gold mining shovel for its massive open pit mine in Nevada. Now the clock is ticking. First, mining equipment factory manager Brenda Hanamann must weather one critical delay after another as her welders build the giant parts of the shovel. Then, a young assembly foreman must steer his crew through bad weather and tricky crane lifts to fit thousands of parts into one very big machine: the Mighty Shovel. Now the pressure’s really on. Every day over deadline is costing rich penalties to Barrick Gold.

Construction workers fight storms as they erect 60 turbine-driven windmills in the North Sea off the coast of Holland.

On the island paradise of Tenerife, the Spanish island off the coast of West Africa, an enormous wave machine is being built at the future Siam Park. How long can faulty construction and unexpected delays push back the completion of this prize attraction?

In a city known for building big, Hong Kong has set the standard for bridges around the world. And the Stonecutters Bridge is like none other. Stretching across the bustling Hong Kong harbor, it’s a spectacular stainless steel cable-stay bridge – the longest of its type in the world. It’s also the site for the biggest “heavy lift” ever attempted on a bridge of its height. This is a 15-billion dollar challenge that’s drawn a team of the top bridge builders in the world to Hong Kong and given them a shot at making bridge-building history.

The race is on as Brazil scrambles to build an iconic new stadium in time for the opening ceremonies of the Pan American Games. The futuristic Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro is over budget and more than a year behind schedule when team leaders Claudio Casares and Sancho Montandon take over the project. Their biggest challenge is the stadium’s most striking design feature – a unique 3,300-tonne floating roof. The team must build a complex arch system to support the roof from above and then remove the temporary supports to leave the roof seemingly suspended in mid-air. The stakes are huge for everyone involved in raising the roof to let the Games begin.

An international team of construction engineers are building the world's tallest skyscraper in the United Arab Emirate city of Dubai. At close to three quarters of a kilometer high, the Burj Dubai's will push these workers wits to the to the limit.

Off the coast of Vancouver Island the airframe of a Boeing 737 will soon begin a new life underwater, as a gigantic artificial reef. The challenge: transport the grounded jet to the sink site, mount it on a cradle, and lower it to the bottom of the sea.

A team of the toughest construction workers in the world has taken on the building of the biggest concrete arch bridge in North America -- right next to the famous Hoover Dam. Only the bravest need apply.

The city of Madrid has hired a team of top-notch German engineers to design the only tunneling machine in the world big enough to bury its busy ring road deep underground.

A 'rescue tunnel' must be cut to free one of The World's Largest Machines stuck head first in The World's Longest Tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Swiss Alps, a key link in Europe's expanding high speed rail network.

In Thailand, a crack team of engineers and builders have come together from around the world to raise Asia's largest double-span bridge. If they can come in on schedule, they'll set a record for the fastest build of its kind anywhere in the world.

At Six Flags Magic Mountain the worlds longest, fastest and tallest Flying Roller Coaster is under construction. If the Park can't get the ride up, tested and ready for the Spring break crowds 2007 this 21 million dollar investment won't be worth a penny.

Heavily damaged in the ‘89 earthquake, the race is on to get the San Francisco Bay bridge replacement built before the next quake hits. Everything about this project is gigantic, and involves the most powerful machines on the planet.

How about powering up an entire country? Run by gas and steam turbines, this huge power plant will be one of the most massive ever built – and it will be done in a remote and inhospitable environment within a time-frame some say is impossible.

One man’s obsession to build and drive the fastest car on Earth takes a team of ex-NASA and Boeing engineers to building a rocket on wheels, meant to measure 56 feet and to go 1300 kilometers per hour at Mach 1.05.

The Hadron Collider is a gigantic particle-smasher, designed to discover the origins of the universe. Awe-inspiring in vision and scope, it’s also the most expensive physics experiment in history with a price-tag of 4 billion dollars.

The most ambitious land reclamation project in history: 3.5 billion dollars worth. The Palm consists of the world’s two largest man-made islands. The world’s biggest dredgers, and about 80 million cubic meters of sand and rock are needed.

Specialists from Canada aid in construction of New York City's new Third Avenue Bridge, coordinating the operation of lifting the bridge span off the transport barges and onto a working barge in the Harlem River.