Ingenuity - Engineering Ground Breakers

Asia is currently witnessing a feverish pace to build, build, and build. Each country is trying to outbuild each other to the tallest building in the world. First it was the Petronas Towers, then it was the Shanghai Financial Centre, followed by Taipei 101, and now it is the Burj Dubai. Mega construction projects may seem like a new phenomena in current climate. However, such practices are nothing new in Asia, as the continent has been home to many mega projects from centuries past, inspiring similar construction in other parts of the world. Ingenuity - Engineering Ground Breakers looks at the engineering marvels currently being undertaken in Asia, and juxtaposed against an archetypal giant from the past.

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Original Name	Ingenuity - Engineering Ground Breakers
First Air Date	January 1, 2010
Last Air Date	February 19, 2010
Seasons	1
Episodes	8
Episode Runtime	0min
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Original Language	English
Production Countries	Singapore
Production Companies	MediaCorp
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Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydro-electric dam in the world. That it is a sheer engineering marvel cannot be denied. Yet questions abound over environmental and social issues, not to mention logistics problems of moving ships up and down river. An ingenious system of shiplocks has gone towards solving that problem, echoing the techniques of Banaue farmers in the Philippines who mastered the art of managing water over two thousand years ago

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