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60,000 tons of steel and 260,000 cubic meters of concrete are used to construct the Shanghai World Financial Center, which stands nearly 500 meters tall.
24 miles of concrete roadways connect New Orleans to Mandeville, making the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway the longest over-water highway bridge in the world.
Ukrainian women have increasingly taken on traditionally male-dominated roles, such as miners and construction workers, amid the societal shifts caused by the Russian invasion.
40,000 workers are engaged in constructing a $50 billion driverless metro system in Sydney, digging over 60 kilometers of tunnels beneath the city.
1,000 families were displaced from their homes in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1942 to make way for the secretive Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.
At least 96 workers died during the construction of the 726-foot Hoover Dam, which was completed on March 1, 1936, two years ahead of schedule.
Three million workers in Dubai have their passports taken away and receive less than half of their promised wages while living in squalid conditions.
Two out of five construction workers fall to their deaths or become disabled while building Manhattan's iconic skyscrapers in the 1920s.
Ronny suffers an injury when his cousin Johnny mishandles a repossession, leading to chaos and a confrontation with local authorities.