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The B1M serves as the ultimate video platform for the construction sector. Our goal is to motivate a more positive industry by sharing insights, effective methods, and engaging narratives. We aim to attract young individuals to our field by highlighting the amazing projects and engineering achievements it produces.

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Overbudget: Inside Britain's $57BN Nuclear Nightmare

Jan 8, 2025 | theb1m.com | James Rabey |Adam Savage

Video hosted and narrated by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Brilliant. IT'S ONE of Europe’s biggest construction sites, perhaps even the biggest. Hinkley Point C is the first nuclear power plant the UK has built in decades, and it’s set to usher in a whole new generation of energy infrastructure for the country.
Documentary alleges 21,000 workers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes The Line

Nov 5, 2024 | theb1m.com | Tim Gibson |Adam Savage |Jaden Urbi

MORE than 21,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese workers are alleged to have died in Saudi Arabia since 2017 working on the country’s Saudi Vision 2030. The claim emerged in a new documentary Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, produced and aired by UK broadcaster ITV.
We all have a role to play in tackling construction’s mental health crisis

Oct 31, 2024 | theb1m.com | Fred Mills |Tim Gibson |James Rabey

CONSTRUCTION is an industry that makes the impossible happen. Everyday its unsung heroes help create the world we all live our lives in – from our homes that shelter us, to the transport infrastructure we rely on and the schools we take our children to. The sector’s amazing people face a barrage of well-reported challenges. There’s an urgent need to boost productivity, build more sustainably and attract skilled workers. But construction’s biggest battle is in fact with a silent pandemic.
This Construction Robot is Building Supertall Elevators

Sep 16, 2024 | theb1m.com | Adam Savage |Tim Gibson

This video and article contain paid promotion for Schindler. LET'S face it: few feats of construction are more awe-inspiring than a skyscraper. Around the world these buildings tower over our cities: emerging from the context of their time, maximising floor area on site, pushing engineers to the max and standing as markers of our progress. But they wouldn’t be viable without one very simple thing: the elevator. Think about it for a moment.
World's New Second Tallest Building Confirmed for Dubai

Sep 12, 2024 | theb1m.com | Tim Gibson |Fred Mills |Adam Savage

THE WORLD is about to get a new second tallest building. The Burj Azizi is currently under construction in Dubai and will stand a staggering 725-metres above the city when it completes. That height will put it into the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s “megatall” category and see it overtake the world’s current second tallest building: Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur. Above: The Burj Azizi will become the world's latest megatall skyscraper. Image courtesy of Azizi Developments.
BBC Reports That Saudi Arabia Authorised "Lethal Force" to Clear a Path for The Line

May 10, 2024 | theb1m.com | Jaden Urbi |Adam Savage

Saudi Arabian authorities permitted the use of "lethal force" to clear villages in the path of The Line, according to an investigation by BBC News. Colonel Rabih Alenezi, an exiled former Saudi intelligence officer now living in the UK, told BBC News that he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the region and cleared to use lethal force against anyone who "continued to resist". It's claimed that one villager has been shot and killed as a result of the order.
The $2BN Megaproject Under Vancouver

Apr 15, 2024 | theb1m.com | Adam Savage |Ian Parkin

Video hosted by Fred Mills. This video contains paid promotion for Brilliant. THERE'S a huge underground infrastructure project happening in Canada that’s set to transform one of its largest cities. As Vancouver prepares for a population boom in the coming years, midway through a housing crisis, a $2BN new subway line is in progress. When complete, it’ll kick-start a massive urban development plan — a whole new downtown — and construction teams are going to extreme lengths to get it done.
Why Japan is Hollowing out a Mountain

Feb 28, 2024 | theb1m.com | Ian Parkin |Adam Savage

Video narrated and hosted by Fred Mills. SOMETHING huge is being constructed in a remote corner of Japan. It’s costing over half a billion dollars and is the biggest of its kind in the world. It’s been in development for over 20 years, it's over 80 metres high and nearly 70 metres wide. But you’re not going to spot it very easily because this enormous structure is hidden deep in the landscape – quite literally – and when it’s finished it’ll look like nothing else on earth – well, almost.
Construction is Uniting to Tackle Its Mental Health Crisis

Jan 26, 2024 | theb1m.com | Ian Parkin |Adam Savage |Fred Mills

CONSTRUCTION has a problem it can’t ignore. In the UK, the industry struggles with poor mental health more than any other sector. At its most extreme, the issue is costing lives: pre-pandemic data shows that two people die by suicide everyday on average in the UK construction industry. That statistic is sadly repeated in Australia, while people working in the US construction sector are five times more likely to die by suicide than they are in other professions.
Construction is Uniting to Tackle Its Mental Health Crisis

Jan 26, 2024 | theb1m.com | Adam Savage |Ian Parkin

CONSTRUCTION has a problem it can’t ignore. In the UK, the industry struggles with poor mental health more than any other sector. At its most extreme, the issue is costing lives: pre-pandemic data shows that two people die by suicide everyday on average in the UK construction industry. That statistic is sadly repeated in Australia, while people working in the US construction sector are five times more likely to die by suicide than they are in other professions.