Biggest Engineering Projects in the World

1) International Space Station

In cooperation with the Russian cosmonauts, American astronauts began work on a permanent space station in 1998. It has been in operation since 1 November 2000.

It is called the International Space station because fifteen nations take part in its programs. It has permanent accommodation for six, and short-term accommodation for up to fifteen when a space shuttle visits.
The International Space Station in orbit over the Earth

From the International Space Station (ISS), pieces of which were built in fifteen countries, scientists will conduct research and experiments that are impossible to conduct on Earth.

The purpose of the ISS is to make it possible for long term exploration of space and to allow research into how humans cope living and working off the planet. This research is needed for future human exploration of space. New materials and technology will be tested.

The International Space Station is the largest space project so far undertaken and is the biggest structure ever to orbit the Earth. It is a research facility 400km above the Earth jointly operated by the space agencies of 16 countries.

2) Three Gorges Dam

It was once considered as China’s largest engineering project since the Great Wall. the Three Gorges Dam is almost half a mile and a half wide and a mile high, which has created a reservoir large enough for huge cargo ships to travel inland. In fact a dam has also been created to produce nearly 10% of China’s electricity supply.

3) Big Dig

It is one of the most complicated engineering projects in the world. Boston’s Big Dig has so many complex components. It is hard to explain. There are so many planned components and the crews have run into many extra complications along the way including rearranging centuries of gas, water, electric phones and cable lines. Another challenge is obliterating the city’s main traffic route in creating a new landscape which will finally have public green and space parks– we hope it will.

4) Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

The proposed repository is designed to store nuclear waste which is currently being stored in over 121 sites around the United States. The project dwindled along the way in February 2010 after years of legal and political issues. Close $9 million has already been spent on the project.

5) Dubai Canal

It is a massive Dubai engineering project and spectacular in general. The Arabian Canal is working hard to blow all the rest of the projects from the water. It would be the world’s largest man-made canal with 46.6 miles long .it will bring water inland to create a planned desert oasis along the canal banks.

6) Panama Canal

The Panama Canal has been called the eighth wonder of the world. It has created an impact on trade routes between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic.
A shortcut has also been created through the Isthmus of Panama that is only 50 miles at its widest point by this canal.

This has reduced travel time in nearly half for cargo ships, since ships no longer need to sail around South America in reaching the Pacific Ocean from New York City.

7) Pathway through the Bering Strait

If there was a bridge or tunnel connecting Europe and North America, what would be possible? The project was originally pioneered by Czar Nicholas II in World War I and is regaining traction in the form of a tunnel which would allow passage between the two continents. Since work would only be possible 4 months out of the year, the project would be long.

8) Transatlantic Train

The project would allow one to travel in New York City and back to London in less than an hour. The proposed Transatlantic Train will be traveling 4,000 miles per hour along a submerged oceanic tunnel. It would be able to travel between the major cities in 54 minutes. However there are complications that must be worked out, leave alone the massive cost!

9) New York Subway System

The New York Subway system is the largest subway system in the United States and the fourth largest in the world. It operates approximately 6,500 cars on over 700 miles of track. . It is run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Owned by the City of New York. The trains run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

10) Sky Cities

They will create residential and commercial space, which will be a solution to overcrowding predictions. It is a futuristic engineering proposal for futuristic buildings that would tower over the Earth.
Engineers are busy exercising their brains for new projects, whether it is sky cities or current train and subway systems that have been in use for years. This is to challenge the world and physics.