ITER featured as one of 10 world-changing projects
The B1M—a video channel known for its coverage of construction, architecture and engineering projects—has published two features on ITER in the last four years that have attracted more than nine million views. Now, the channel's founder is featuring the ITER project in a new book.
The B1M first visited ITER in 2022 to film We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor. A follow-up feature, This is the World's Most Complex Construction Project (2024), became the channel's most-watched video to date. "By far," the B1M founder Fred Mills notes.
Last week, Mills was at the Royal Geographical Society in London to present Mega Builds, Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World, a book that charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects, including ITER, are redefining what’s possible. “The trajectory of our civilization is being authored today, all around us, not in words on a page but in steel and concrete, and by an industry that most people completely overlook.”
When choosing a prize giveaway for the launch of his book competition, he said the choice of a trip to ITER was an easy one.
“From the first time I came here … I knew about it, I had researched it, I understood how it worked. But it’s not until you walk into that Assembly Hall and you see that environment around you that the goosebumps kind of come out on your skin. We were thinking about what would be a good prize giveaway for someone to enter the book competition and ITER was literally a no-brainer.”
Winner Darren Williams, a structural engineer, travelled to ITER with Mills on 28 May. By chance, they met ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi in the Assembly Hall, who was pleased to receive a copy of the book.
Mega Builds: Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World, ISBN 978-0-7535-6161-4