It’s kind of Amazing to think that you’ve gone from doing little tutorials and sales pitches for BIM software to discussing construction projects to now basically a full fledge BBC/National Geographic quality shows. Bravo!🎉

As a German I can say with confidence the Tunnel will be completed before the Motorway connection between Fehmarn and Lübeck will be completed.

I'm actually apart of this project, I work on one of the tugboats assisting the dredger ship and supplying the other ships on project. It's so cool to see this in a documentary... I can show people where and what I do now. Nice documentary

I loved the train/ferry ride. They used this route until some years ago. You were able to take a little stroll on the ferry, watch the waves, have a cinnamon roll and a coffee. Yes, it might have been slower than a tunnel, but sometimes slowing down is exactly what we need. I miss this a lot.

I know everyone says this, but I love how this channel did not turn into one of those one-sided types of content creators. (biggest building ever!!!) but this incredible production team covers many valid and important environmental as well as societal impacts of construction whilst reveling in their beauty and scale.

I worked on the construction of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel about 30 years ago. It was constructed in the same way this tunnel is being built.The water quality after the project was completed was better than before the project started. Good management and good ethics made it work, even though we had to work right underneath the Sydney Opera House. No one complains about it anymore

Imagine if the money that goes to wars, would go to more projects like this

Terrific story, unknown of by most of us in Texas. Quite comprehensive, well written, photographed and produced, covering the major and extreme elements of this project while adding significant irony towards the end with the telling of a story of a 60 year old bridge being the first water crossing of the area, its construction being resisted, and how locals now fear losing upkeep, maintenance, and the possible declining future of this sentimental "relic" at the expense of the new Mega Tunnel. Better than a 60 Minutes piece!

Is it just me or has the quality of videos on this channel gone through the roof recently? Take this video for example - it is better than many of the documentaries you watch on TV which are often done by production companies with decades of experience and many more people involved in the process of creating those documentaries. Wow! _Thank you for putting out such high quality content here on UKposts!_

the two bridges between denmark and sweden are truly incredible, drove over those two last summer at sunrise and was blown away by the sights and the architecture

My hats off to all the people in charge of these fantastic engineering projects. You guys rock!👏👏👏

I really appreciated the thoughtful approach to the concerns of the citizens and genuinely the editorial felt "kind" towards their concerns. Nice work B1M.

B1M is perhaps the most professional UKposts channel I’ve seen. You don’t avoid complex issues, instead you explain them in a language that those not in the industry, such as myself, can understand. We’ll done to you.

One of finest documentary-style UKposts productions I've ever seen from any outlet, let alone from an independent UKpostsr! Thanks Fred & team!

I love this episode, love how you're on the point in every way and despite clear negligence by oceangate, you still present their flaws respectfully without trying to ridicule. Great video!!!

Seeing this video again after over a year it still is one of the best I’ve ever seen, especially for this project. As I live right there it also is incredible to see how much has changed at the construction site since this video was published

I'd be interested in seeing a video on how underwater trenches are dug, no idea how that would even work haha

As a German I have to say that we are very lucky the Danish are managing this project, Germany does nearly nothing to it. But it is really important in my opinion and probably the less Germany is involved, the better for the cost, the time horizon and the complexity of this project...

I worked on the Ground Investigation for this a few years ago, drilling boreholes across the water there. It was a very interesting idea and closer to home, the extension of the Tyne Tunnel in North East England was constructed in a similar fashion.

$7.5bn is insanely cheap, if they can do it. In Australia they want $7bn just to build a train station in Sydney as part of a dream high speed train network

As someone who lives in Malmö and crosses the Öresund bridge multiple times a week, it was great to see your reaction going across it! I have definitely become desensitized to how amazing it is from an engineering and architecture perspective

I feel like Fred Mills is the David Attenborough for construction with the quality of these videos. I know it's been said but this channel's progress is as astonishing as the advancements in construction!

Well made video! Living in Malmö, the Öresund bridge has made a huge impact on the region. People working on both sides travelling daily and the easy access to the Copenhagen Airport is just great. I actually drove from Malmö to Hamburg this summer, not using the ferry between Rödby - Puttgarden. It took around six hours. I think this tunnel will have a huge impact on the region, and it will reduce the travelling time from six hours to around three hours.

I must say, your video content is superb, well balanced, informative, excellently directed, excellently produced, and hits all the key points in a

Filming from the field, while interactively explaining topics is WAY better than using lame and repetitive stock videos, like too many UKpostsrs do. Great research and amazing work!

This is a fascinating project. What a feat of engineering - wow! You've presented the project so well, explained where and why this is being built. Explained the issues and decided upon solution (and why), then managed to get across the sheer scale of the whole thing. It's so interesting. Finally you've not ignored the environmental concerns and issues being raised, presenting pros, cons and concerns without bias. Great work, more of this content please! 👏

Extremely high quality content from this channel, as always.

This project will have a huge impact on central-northern Europe. I can’t wait to travel to Sweden by train within a day. I‘m sure it’s like you said, that once it’s there, we would never want it differently. Awesome video!

I just want to say that one thing which might be forgotten here is the incredible rise of the B1M as a channel. They have basically become as big as Discovery Channel's Megastructures in a few short years. What a phenomenal job they've done.

I took the Puttgarten ferry as a child, in the late 60s and early 70s. The train rolled onto the ferry, which I thought normal but have never experienced since. Amazing work!

Amazing project and another excellent video, I continue to be impressed with the quality of the B1M's work. As to the environment and local effects, the environmental effects such as the silt will settle out pretty quickly. For the local effects while it's a smaller scale I suggest taking a look at what happened with Mackinaw City Michigan. It's a small tourist town of the tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, the "tip of the mitt", and it used to be the only way to get to the upper peninsula was a ferry. Then the Mackinac Bridge, the "Mighty Mac", a megaproject itself, was built and I-75 extended into the UP. That was in 1957, Mackinaw City is a delightful place and still a small town, it wasn't destroyed at all, and in fact the area is remote enough that just a few miles out of town is one of the International Dark Parks, where you can REALLY see the night sky.

This documentry is just pure brilliance and masterpiece at display. The way Fred also covers views of organisation opposing the project despite being biggest construction youtuber is really commendable. B1M truly is the best source to derive info about construction on the planet. Again well done and congrats Fred and whole B1M team. Best of luck for future projects. Love from India.

1:39 I want you to know that this clip is from the German _satirical_ programme "Extra 3", so when the host says "It isn't clear wether the positive consequences of this project outweigh the negative ones", it's a segue to a clip of them extensively making fun of the tunnel.

The quality of these documentaries is a HUGE leap above anything else on UKposts. In fact, its composition is even better than the famed BBC documentaries. Great transitions, simple hands-on examples, lovely intonation of narration...

Those were grand featured elements. Nice video produced here. The shots quality were top tier and everyone in the video were great.

This is one of those videos that makes me sit and marvel that it's free. It's so well-researched, expertly produced and presented that I feel like I should be paying for it. Exceptional work.

better than anything on Discovery Channel today

2:30 Spending holidays sailing with my parents I got to experience the Øresund Bridge in a way not many get to see it as a young teen and it was a very memeorable and spectacular experience. The bridge is just long enough that at a day with not compleatly clear athmosphere no land is visible. So you are sailing in the waterway in the middle of that body of water, and suddenly this monumentous construction just materialises from thin air, quickly growing to proportions that absolutely drawf you in your smal sailing ship. It really has a unreal component to it. There you are, in what appears to be open water, and then there is this gigantic bridge.

Damn fine video. I also loved when the music changed for the "BORED TUNNEL" segment.

Totally amazing. As a retired engineer, I wish I could have worked on a project such as this. This is astonishing.

I hope that videos like this one will have follow-ups eventually, where Fred revisits the site a few years into construction (or even after completion!) and updates us on the projects :) Might trigger a spike in views on the older, original videos as well.

Really well done mate! You presented a balanced view of the project, citing both pro- and opponents, while still being respectful to both. Also, it's just very cool that you got access to the site!

Watching this one again after some time ago ... boy ... what a marvel of engineering worth a second listen... Thanks B1M for the Great Content!

Fred, your production quality has gone skyward. The way that you tell stories is as marvellous as the stories themselves. I really appreciate the effort that you and your team are putting into these recent documentaries! They are truly deserving of that classification. All the best to you & everyone.

A giant project. I am proud of our scandinavian neighbours. Thanks to the B1M Team for this brillant documentation !

Amazing engineering. Hope to pay a visit once it happen later. I wish all the best and stay safe to all involved

Yes bravo! Well thought out / executed ‘storytelling’ in projecting objectivity and inform. No matter which side of the for or against infrastructure projects you might land on. No pun intended. Kudos.

The sheer number of things that have to be taken into account on these kinds of projects is just anxiety-inducing. The words of the on-site directors about how they learn on the site since there is no manual to these kinds of things make you really think about every single aspect. From simply transporting the goods, casting the parts and moving things around the site to monitoring the sediments movements and carbon emissions. Thousands of hours of just thoughts and planning to keep the project in an orderly fashion from start to finish. Ventures like these are what I consider to be the peak of society's achievements. Great work on the documentary and massive respect to anyone working on the project.

If it wasn’t for amazing journalists like you, Americans like me would never know things like this actually exist. It’s absolutely astounding!

The consturction site will definitely be landscaped, trees planted. The tunnel will decrease kilometers driven and make train travel actually attractive to replace short haul flights from Denmark/Sweden to Central-Europe

Thank you so much for this very interesting video. Reminds me if the quote: it takes hundreds of people making a infrastructure project work, but only a handful to shut it down. Looking forward to your future videos - keep it up!

Superb coverage of this underappreciated mega project. The Danes really have something to offer the world, when it comes to engineering and know-how, particularly within bridge and tunnel construction. Not bad for a country with 2/3 the population of London.

I'm old, but i hope to live long enough to use this great project a few times - future generations will ask why it hasn't been build much earlier! Fantastic what humans can achieve when they work together!

This is the second B1M video I have watched, and I am now a subscriber! I love informative stories, and this one is fantastic, especially living in the States.

One of the best productions I've seen of a fantastic project Thank you😅

I am working on the signaling system on the Danish side, and my team will eventually participate in testing the train in that tunnel. Incidentally, I happen to be in the background at the 12:51 mark, because I was visiting the museum the day you were shooting. This is an amazing project, and seeing your documentary on it makes me realize even more how crazy it is, and how lucky I am to be (albeit very remotely) involved in it Thanks for a great program 👍 🙂

Proud and happy to be part of the planning team on the German side :) Great Video (y)

Totally awesome! I am interested in the procedures they will be using to excavate the trenches and to keep the trenches from collapsing before installing each segment. As a commercial diver I know that it can be a real challenge to keep a trench "open" when laying a subsea pipeline let alone when installing the sections of tunnel. Please create a video on how the installation process will work, I'm sure it would be awesome to see - Thank you!

Very well done. I watched the whole thing and don't regret time time I've spent.

The anti-tunnel side got a fair and sympathetic hearing in this video. They weren’t brushed aside or ignored. That’s to your credit, Fred.

Thanks for such in depth analysis of this mega project. I love progress and the impact it has on the future of our lives and the convenience the technology brings. 😎

Fantastic video - should be shown to every school kid across Europe and beyond. Not just to inspire Engineers but also Environmentalists, Media and Logistics students etc etc etc.

Your productions are amazingly well done and produced! Also, the fact that you present various arguments for and against this type of project adds to the value for me as a viewer. A fantastic presentation indeed!

As a person who often have to travel between Germany and Sweden I'm very excited about how much this will cut off of travel times.

Just came across your channel and i think your content is very interesting, keep the good work. greetings from Portugal.

Great video, congratulations. I’am from Belgium and never heard of this project so very interesting to learn about it…! Grts

When they built the Oresund bridge (Sweden - Denmark) the environmentalists were saying the same thing. But in the end, the outcome was that improved the health of the Baltic sea.

This is a love letter to engineering. I never thought I would experience this on UKposts of all places. Great quality work going on at this channel. Keep up the good work!

I just found your channel and your videos are fantastic! I love the way you explain everything and visulise it in a way that's easy to explain.

I took the ferry from Germany to Danmark over Fehmarn belt as a part of a train ride from Hamburg to Copenhagen. Pretty cool stuff.

One thing to note is that there is already plans underway as to what to use the main construction site/factory for when they're done building the tunnel elements for Fehmarn belt, including 'tailored' IMT elements to other projects, and Immersed Foundations for offshore wind-farms

Wow. You keep hitting new levels with your content, Fred. I had no idea this project was underway, I’m so thankful to you and the team for your hard work. Brilliant video!

The quality of your videos, something id watch on discovery science at 1am or something, real awesome sir

thanks for covering europe once in a while :D

As Italian🇮🇹 I want to say one thing. The Scan Med corridor goes through the Strait of Messina (the water between the boot and Sicily) and Italian government is getting ready to build a suspension bridge with the longest central span. (Actually the record is 2023m, Messina bridge will be 3300m with a height around 400m.)

In my hometown we have a similar kind of tunnel, construction was actually very similar to this one in Denmark. It was built in the 60' and is probably still the most complex engineering work ever done in Argentina. It goes until 32 mts. deep and has almost 2,4 km tubed section under the river soil. A consortium of three companies was in charge of the project, Hochtief and Vianini plus an argentine one. It completely changed the lives of both cities, for better.

This was one of your best! A+

Sooooo informative and fascinating. THANKS B1M.😊

The production of this video is just on whole another level! Props to you guys and I'm hoping for the best for all the people behind this channel. Keep it up!

The fact that the Technical Director, Jens Ole Kaslund, first mentions communication between working crews when talking about what they learned so far, makes me trust this project. And the production quality on this channel is top notch. Thanks to everyone involved in the creation of these videos!

One of your best long form docs. good job!

Thank you so very much for making this video in for sharing this video very interesting and we'll have to check into it some more

Really loving this channel lately, been having a bit of time off work because of surgery and covid so been watching it quite a bit! So much so I’ve hit the bell icon now 😊

Engineer in the US here and my company has a division in Denmark that I happen to work with routinely. Love the Danes, great people and great Engineering tradition for such a relatively small country! I hope this project work out very well for them!

Absolutely amazing what technological advancements we can attain. This means a lot in terms of the jobs, the corridors that will be a tourist attraction, and the future economic developments that will come from all impacted by this.

this was brilliant- Thankyou 😁👍

23:08 as a Swede you're 100% spot on about this, having recently bought an apartment in Italy, the idea of flying to there is a pretty sad one to me, current rail connections makes this trip take a little more than 24 hours by rail, and is what makes me so excited by this project. This and all the new connections that will come from it will make taking the train to my apartment even more feasible. (As I'll still be taking it regardless haha, so much more comfortable).

Great Video! I expected a short video about a mega project like some of your former videos and got a nearly 30-minute documentary with different perspectives and great shots! Love it!

Brilliant video. Thank you. Great production value. I’m curious if the natural contours of the channel have to be modified in order to ensure the grade of the segments isn’t too steep. I can’t imagine it’s a perfect 2° curve all the way up on both sides.

love the video brother, keep it up

Immersed tunnels have been successfully built in a number of locations around the world. However, almost all existing immersed tunnels were built across protected waters, such as a harbor or a bay. Building an immersed tunnel up to 40 meters deep across a stormy stretch of open water on the Baltic Sea is an immersed tunnel on a completely different level compared to any other immersed tunnel in the world!

I, an Aussi, live in Lübeck and travel to Fehmarn camping at the Fehmarn Belt. I've a feeling that the construction of Fehmarn Sound Tunnel and the link to Autobahn A1 will take decades before its completion!

Fascinating! Great video

I love the enthusiasm of the engineers responsible for the build. ❤️

Great work on this video - clearly a ton of effort went into making it, from the research, video editing, logistics of getting on the sites, interviewing people and exceptional writing as always. Keep up the great work B1M! Thank you.

Wow, what a channel discovery. Thanks algorithm. Also this was about something happening in my country that I've wondered about my whole life. Glad to see it's becoming a reality!

The Öresundsbridge created a new environment around the bridge pillars for clamps

The quality of your documentaries lately has been absolutely incredible, especially with the on-site content. Keep up the amazing work!

I was born and raised on Fehmarn. My father was a construction worker of the Fehmarn sound bridge in the 60s. I went to school on the island and only left to study. I came back quite often to visit friends and family. That said, most people living on Fehmarn their whole life don't mind the fixed crossing. It's rather those that came from somewhere else, visited often as tourists and later in life decided to move here to retire. It started with the wind mills in the 80s and 90s. Farmers on Fehmarn build them and it not only turned out to be ecologically sound, but also made the, some money. More were built. When I came back, I often heard people complain about how this destroys the "nice view" of the island. They valued the looks more than the environment, which is a common theme. And even when they mention the environment, it's not about preserving it for its own sake...but for tourism. Oh, woe us, when this convenient environment is challenged...what will happen to the bunch of tourists? Just ask people living on Fehmarn for their whole life about the tourists and they will give you an earful of stories^^ Of course, they bring money to the island, but they also bring a lot of pollution and traffic and are the ones not caring about the environment in the first place. Whatever changes this projects will bring to the marine environment will be minimal and temporary. The planet does not care about structures. After covering the tunnel, sedimentation will fill the gaps withing months. The Baltic Sea is rough in autumn and winter, sediments are disturbed during high winds anyway. The Scandinavians are not as timid and fearful of change as the Germans are. Thankfully, they are in charge of the project ;-). Unfortunately, the Autobahn and railways between Fehmarn and Lübeck are build by Germany. This will take a lot longer than 2029. I remember the small part of the A1/E47 between Oldenburg and Heiligenhafen being built. It took AGES!!! for expanding it from one lane per direction to two lanes on those 15km...on dry land. And due to some bankruptcy and court involvements and environmental injunctions it would not go forward for years. It's a mess. Take the new railway construction: Due to stupid planning, they will not build the new route while maintaining the old rails until they connect them. Nope, they stopped all rail traffic between Neustadt (about halfway between Fehmarn and Lübeck) and Fehmarn this August until...2029!!!!! You can take a bus now, which can fit 75 people and will go every hour. This will drive people to go by car to Fehmarn and beyond, because nobody wants to change from train to bus and back to train and probably wait a bunch of time, because more that 75 people were on that train. I thought this was a joke when I heard it the first time, but it is not. This is why you should avoid Germany when it comes to construction. They will chose the worst ideas for solutions, trying to fit in even the most dumb ideas and concerns and in the end doom the project. If you want to see efficiency and ability fit for the future you have to look north. Scandinavia is the front runner when it comes to integrating renewable energy concepts in a way that will help build a better future. Solar and wind is not fought against, but welcomed as a source of new jobs. Germans are worryguts and very conservative which will stall projects. The tunnel will be built and it will end on the German side in a big construction site way beyond 2029...

This is a Discovery's science network level Video and even more, glad I found this channel. Reminds me of the daya when I used to be watch this kind of videos/Documentaries