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Tour the ProjectsThe Big Dig


Towards Completion

Towards Completion

Work on the Big Dig is projected to be completed by 2005. When it is all done, workers will have excavated 14 million cubic yards of earth, enough to fill a professional sports stadium fourteen times. The total cost will likely approach $15 billion, up from the $2.5 billion (excluding mitigation) forecast in 1983.

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Great Projects: The Building of America



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A Tale of Two Rivers

How engineers contained and controlled the Colorado and Mississippi rivers.

Electric Nation

Thomas Edison lights up New York City; Sam Insull brings power to Chicago; and TVA electrifies rural America

Bridging New York

Constructing the George Washington Bridge

The Big Dig

Putting a major highway under Boston
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