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About Building a Massive City from Snow

Watch engineers, soldiers and artists construct towering structures for Japan’s Sapporo Snow Festival under warming weather and a three-week deadline.

Building a Massive City from Snow is presented by Free Documentary - Engineering. Its listed runtime is 48 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

As a engineering & megaprojects documentary, Building a Massive City from Snow uses building, massive as its central frame. Engineering documentaries reveal how constraints become design decisions. Follow the relationship between planning, materials, specialist labor, safety, cost and schedule, especially when the project operates at unusual scale.

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Title
Building a Massive City from Snow
Runtime
48 minutes
Language
English

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