{"product_id":"9780753561614","title":"Mega Builds : Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Mills, Fred \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 21\/05\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780753561614,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover the incredible, fact-packed new book shining a light on the world’s biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026‘A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.’ – Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men‘Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.’ – Chris Broad, bestselling author of Abroad in Japan---Modern engineering is rewriting the rulebook and revolutionising how we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mega Builds, Fred Mills – the founder of global construction platform The B1M - takes you inside ten of the most extraordinary engineering projects that are reshaping our modern world.  From a 170km-long smart city in Saudi Arabia, to Japan’s levitating railway and France’s bold quest for limitless energy, Mills delivers an eye-opening tour of the biggest engineering challenges set to change the world as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the end of this book, you’ll learn:Why the world’s biggest city has been built in the worst place imaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the vision of a single ruler in the desert is rewriting our understanding of what’s possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat drives us to build ever-higher buildings and design ever-faster trains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd above all, how the dizzying scale of human imagination will inform the future of the man-made world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Fred’s signature accessible style, Mega Builds demystifies the complexities while exploring the economic, environmental and societal stakes of building at unprecedented scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trajectory of our civilisation is being authored today all around us, not in words on a page, but in steel and concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet the projects and people set to transform our very experience of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Mega Builds:‘A fascinating exploration of the world’s biggest and boldest construction projects.’ – Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London‘Fred has a gift for turning megaprojects into stories you can feel.’ – Grady Hillhouse, author of Engineering in Plain Sight and creator of Practical Engineering‘Superb… Mills rightly celebrates how thinking big is often the right answer.’ – Christian Wolmar, author of British Rail and The Rise of the Railway\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57237211906421,"sku":"9780753561614","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780753561614.jpg?v=1780140018","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780753561614","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}