At first sight, there is little to suggest the sleepy village of Brito is the starting point of one of the world's most ambitious engineering projects.
Witness Supersized Earth, a BBC1 programme that gave us a glimpse of the impact of urbanisation on the planet via its most enormous engineering projects.
In response, Chinese leaders have undertaken one of the most ambitious engineering projects in world history, a $60 billion network of canals, rivers and lakes to transport water from the flood-prone Yangtze River to the silt-choked Yellow River.
When I graduated from the university, I went to work for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was just sort of plopped into one of the most outrageous engineering projects.
SOON the centrepiece of one of China's most spectacular engineering projects will be completed, with the opening of sluicegates into a canal stretching over 1,200km (750 miles) from the Yangzi river north to the capital, Beijing.
Mr. Goldin, saying he was "frustrated and disappointed" by repeated Russian delays and promises, said the United States and 14 other partner nations could no longer allow Russia to stall construction of the station, one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever undertaken.
As Raffi Khatchadourian explains in this week's magazine, a daunting challenge of building the world's largest fusion reactor is making all the pieces fit together; with components coming from many different countries, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is one of the most complex engineering projects ever conceived.
THE subway system, which opened nearly 100 years ago, on Oct. 27, 1904, is one of New York's most astonishing engineering projects -- miles and miles of track strung through a dense network of building foundations, basements and water, gas, electric and sewage lines.
By Nate Lavey February 25 , 2014As Raffi Khatchadourian explains in this week's magazine, a daunting challenge of building the world's largest fusion reactor is making all the pieces fit together; with components coming from many different countries, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is one of the most complex engineering projects ever conceived.
