Mega Builds

A wide-eyed, joyous and infectiously fun look at how human ingenuity and enormous machines are tackling some of the biggest engineering challenges the world has dared to take on. A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book. – Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map MenWith more globe-trotting than an international spy and access to structures that would make a Bond villain wince mid-monologue, Mega Builds reveals the feats shaping the 21st century and the mind-boggling world the next generation stands to inherit. – Chris Broad, author of Abroad in JapanFred has a gift for turning megaprojects into stories you can feel, and his perspective is equal parts grounded, inspiring, and forward-looking.’ – Grady Hillhouse, author of Engineering in Plain Sight and creator of Practical EngineeringThis is a superb counterpoint to the usual media negativity around big projects that are the product of human ambition. Mills rightly celebrates how thinking big is often the right answer. – Christian Wolmar, author of Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World

Fred Mills is a British filmmaker and founder of The B1M YouTube channel, the largest and most subscribed-to construction channel in the world with over 3.9 million subscribers.

From California to Japan, Fred has had unprecedented on-the-ground access inside some of our planet’s biggest megaprojects - no one else has travelled to so many. From walking into a nuclear fusion reactor, to climbing a megatall skyscraper and becoming the industry’s leading mental health advocate, Fred’s experiences and insights have made him the top construction influencer worldwide.