A is an extremely large scale defines megaprojects as typically costing more than US$ 1 billion and attracting a lot of public attention because of substantial impacts on Communities , Environment , and Budgets .
Megaprojects include Bridge s, Tunnel s, Motorway s, Railway s, Airport s, Seaport s, Power Plant s, Dam s, Wastewater projects, Oil and Natural Gas Extraction projects, Public Building s, Information Technology systems, Aerospace projects, and Weapons System s.
Some examples of megaprojects are:
- Denver International Airport , Denver, Colorado , USA .
- San Diego International Airport , San Diego, California , USA .
- Pittsburgh International Airport , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , USA .
- Kuala Lumpur International Airport , Malaysia
- Suvarnabhumi Airport , Thailand
- Kansai International Airport , Japan
- Hong Kong International Airport , Hong Kong , China
- Dubai International Airport , Dubai , UAE
- Dubai World Central International Airport , Jebel Ali , UAE
- Montréal-Mirabel International Airport , Montréal, Québec , Canada
- Toronto Pearson International Airport , Toronto, Ontario , Canada
- O'Hare International Airport , Chicago, Illinois , USA
- McCormick Place , Chicago , USA
- Jacob K. Javits Convention Center , New York City , USA
- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza , Albany, New York , USA
- University Of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , USA
- San Diego Convention Center , San Diego , USA
- Parliament House , Canberra , Australia
- Petronas Twin Towers , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
- Burj Dubai , Dubai , United Arab Emirates
- Interstate Highway System , United States of America
- Big Dig , Boston , Massachusetts , USADan McNichol and Andy Ryan, ''The Big Dig'', Silver Lining Press, 1991
- Dublin Port Tunnel , Dublin , Ireland
- Expressway Network Of The People's Republic Of China
- National Highways Development Project , India
- The Oresund Bridge and its connections on land, like the City Tunnel, Malmö .
- The Fehmarn Belt Bridge and its connections on land.
- The Bundesautobahn 20 , Germany
- The Greater Ankara Overpass and Underpass Network created by Melih Gökçek , known as Mole .
- San Diego-Coronado Bridge , a 200 ft. bridge over the San Diego Bay built high enough to allow naval ships through.
- Snowy Mountains Scheme river diversion, irrigation, dam and hydro-electric project, New South Wales / Victoria , Australia
- East Bay Municipal Utility District wet weather overflow project, Oakland, California , USA''Environmental Impact Statement for the East Bay Municipal Utility District Wet Weather Overflow Project'', EMI prepared for the U.S. EPA and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, Ca. (1985)
- San Diego - Tijuana Wastewater Treatment plant, USA- Mexico
- Thames Tideway Scheme , London
- Deep Tunnel Project , Chicago
- Chicago River reversing its course, Chicago
- Delta Works , Netherlands
- South-North Water Transfer Project , China
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