The last in Twofour's six part engineering series for Five is on Skyscrapers. Going out at 8pm on Five on Thursday 15 October, this programme reveals how the remarkable revolution in the design and construction of tall buildings over the past fifty years has been driven by the lessons learnt from major disasters across the globe. The consequences of structural weakness, fires, or collapse in such tall and crowded structures can be catastrophic. The world's leading engineers and builders have used cutting edge technology to come up with completely different ways of making these buildings higher, stronger and safer.

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