{"product_id":"mega-builds-fred-mills-9780753561621","title":"Mega Builds","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom YouTube sensation Fred Mills, a globetrotting look inside the planet's biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\n\u003cbr\u003eA NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.' - Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.' - Chris Broad, bestselling author of Abroad in Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModern engineering is rewriting the rulebook and revolutionising how we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the end of this book, you'll learn-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy the world's biggest city has been built in the worst place imaginable.\n\u003cbr\u003eWhere the vision of a single ruler in the desert is rewriting our understanding of what's possible.\n\u003cbr\u003eWhat drives us to build ever-higher buildings and design ever-faster trains.\n\u003cbr\u003eAnd above all, how the dizzying scale of human imagination will inform the future of the man-made world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeet the projects and people set to transform our very experience of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Mega Builds-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A fascinating exploration of the world's biggest and boldest construction projects.' - Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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":"Fred Mills","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49121876082931,"sku":"9780753561621","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780753561621.jpg?v=1779740750","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/mega-builds-fred-mills-9780753561621","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}