CHINA OPENS WORLD'S LONGEST SEA BRIDGE

China unveiled bridge in the world's longest sea, extending a massive 26.4 miles - five miles longer than the distance between Dover and Calais and more than a marathon.


The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, completed earlier this week, linking the major cities of Qingdao city, east China's Shandong Province, with Huangdao district, straddling Jiaozhou Bay waters.


Viaduct, which lasted four years and cost a cool £ 5.5billion to build, will be open to the use of the new year and almost three miles longer than the previous record holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

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Extreme Scaffolding Constuction

From a distance, looks like a maze of scaffolding steel pipes crisscrossing through the rotating building. But peer carefully and you will see that the complex engineering and precision is at work behind the grill. It is estimated that the scaffolding of the old North Africa and China. A glass of Greek wine, also known as a kylix and V century, contains a picture of a statue of a warrior on a scaffold. Scaffolding is now mainly made of metal tubing. But in some parts of Asia, the scaffold is made of bamboo and used, even when the high-rise building is very long. It is extremely scaffolding, but most of the scaffolding is just another day at the office. More images of amazing construction projects after the break...

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