Fred Mills

Minor YouTube star. Founder of @TheB1M, @TomorrowsBuild, @GetConstTalking. 4M YouTube subs. I love #construction and I want the whole world to love it too.

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

I can't believe the words I am typing: Mega Builds has just become an instant Sunday Times bestseller!! 🎉

I set out to get the world to better appreciate and understand construction. It's a been a heck of a journey – but to see the book I wrote about the industry I love become one of the top-selling books in the country is incredibly humbling.

Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a copy, shared the book and supported me and @TheB1M team over the years. This would not have happened without you 🙏

Huge thanks also to @PenguinUKBooks, @EburyPublishing and @thetimes. You can grab a copy of Mega Builds here 👉 https://t.co/JU181hIJ8W

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

This is mad. Mega Builds was @bookshop_org_UK's number one biggest selling book for UK independent bookshops in May 2026 🎉

Proceeds from book sales through Bookshop go into a pool that is distributed to independent bookshops across the UK – and Mega Builds contributed the most to indies in May 2026.

Huge thank you to everyone supporting the book and to the many people who have written reviews or taken the time to message me with kind feedback on what they've read so far. Mega Builds is available online and in bookstores now📖 🙌

[James B @James_the_166th]

Congratulations to @Fred_Mills and @TheB1M, this book is amazing

[Henri @happyhappyhenri]

Traditional media slowly but surely is losing it’s grip on the information space to the new streaming platforms and social media. Previously you’d go to the BBC or National Geographic for a documentary on the building of the new superstructure, airport or an engineering marvel of a bridge. In 2026 you open Youtube and search @TheB1M which has some of the best long form youtube content out there.

Books though, are not going anywhere. Massive congrats to @Fred_Mills for getting his book out there. It’s next on my list!

[Edward Brooks @TheEdwardBrooks]

“We’re here because the temperature, atmosphere, weather, gravitational pull and tectonic plates surfing on a bed of spinning molten rock allow us to be.” - @Fred_Mills

My favorite quote from Mega Builds book so far. Also W for Tokyo.

[Blackwell's @blackwellbooks]

Discover the world’s biggest engineering challenges in ‘Mega Builds’ by Fred Mills, one of our current top bestsellers online! Explore more today: https://t.co/q3bdUjqaCm

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

Today I became a published author. Mega Builds has now been published by @PenguinUKBooks and is available online and in all major bookstores 🎉

Thank you so much to everyone that has supported me on this journey and to the hundreds of people who have sent me kind messages of support and feedback on what they've read so far – my phone is physically hot to touch today, haha 😅

[Edward Brooks @TheEdwardBrooks]

@Fred_Mills I may have bought two books. Love your channel and look forward to this.

[Jase @betalogic]

@Fred_Mills congrats on the book Fred, looking forward to starting this tonight! You deserve all the continued success!!

[Storm⛈️ and Oswin🥇 @claraandstorm]

@Fred_Mills @EburyPublishing @TheB1M A MEGA snooze fest - but I'm a cat so that's ideal ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Storm ⛈️
(Confirmed purchaser's cat.)😉

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

What a milestone. @TheB1M has gone from an idea in my spare bedroom to 4M YouTube subscribers and 32M monthly viewers. It's grown into a multi-million pound media company with a full-time team of 16 people working across two continents. Millions of people around the world are now seeing and understanding the true impact of the amazing construction industry through our work.

Following my passion, believing in myself and getting all the right people around me is seriously paying off.

Huge thanks to The B1M team and to everyone who helped us reach this point. We're only just getting warmed-up 😉 ✊

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

This is wild. I've had an incredible and slightly surreal morning at Backstory Books in London signing and dedicating the hundreds of copies of Mega Builds books that you guys ordered 🔥

The demand for signed copies at this store alone has been crazy. I'll be going back in a few days once more stock has been delivered. Backstory's website will also be taking new orders again soon ✊

Reading so many personal messages in the dedications has really moved me and I want to say a huge thank you to everyone that is supporting this book. I can't wait for the world to discover these jaw-dropping projects and the amazing unsung heroes that are making them happen.

Book is officially published by @PenguinUKBooks on 21 May but some pre-orders are already shipping! You can grab copies here 👉 https://t.co/JU181hIJ8W

Use Blackwells for international orders 🌎

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

40 years on from the worst nuclear disaster in human history, it was good to speak to @SkyNews about the construction of Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement — and how the structure might now be repaired after that shocking drone strike.

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

Great to meet with Rachel Reeves, Ed Miliband and Rolls Royce SMR in Downing Street as the UK Government signs its first contract for small modular reactors. We're looking forward to covering the first projects on @TheB1M as work begins.

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

Checking out Arizona's epic Glen Canyon Dam and its neighbouring bridge — two amazing bits of infrastructure that help power and connect part of the southwestern United States 🇺🇸

[How To Academy @howtoacademy]

Join @Fred_Mills, the creator of the world’s biggest construction YouTube channel, for a front-row journey inside the megaprojects reshaping civilisation and carving out the future.

Thu, 21 May | 7:30pm | London
Tickets: https://t.co/zkLEHVg6BA

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

So excited to finally share this! I have written a book!! Mega Builds: 10 Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World will be published by @EburyPublishing @PenguinUKBooks on 21 May 2026 and is available to pre-order now 👉 https://t.co/Ikxq7t5BJU

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

Final trip across the pond of 2025. Thanks for having me Atlanta 🇺🇸

Bloody proud of myself for making solid progress in my training despite a wall-to-wall diary and frequent intercontinental flights. I’ll sleep when I’m dead 😅

[Get Construction Talking @GetConstTalking]

Wow! Juneau Construction donated an incredible $25,000 to @GetConstTalking at their Town Hall event in Atlanta this morning, taking our overall fundraising total to over $826,000 🙌

These funds go directly to construction’s mental health charities around the world, helping them provide the support that our industry needs 🙏

Help make a difference through a donation or by downloading our free Action Plan 👉 https://t.co/kfyr0kDglW

#GetConstructionTalking

[Fred Mills @Fred_Mills]

The scenes of the horrific fire at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Hong Kong this week have been difficult to watch. They evoke painful memories of London's deadly Grenfell Tower disaster and are a devastating reminder of the importance of building safety, the trust we place in those responsible for our buildings every time we enter them, and what can happen when that responsibility is not met.

Perhaps most of all, they highlight that we are still to learn the lessons of past disasters, despite detailed investigations and their findings being made public.

The fire broke out on Wednesday at Wang Fuk Court, a subsidised housing complex in Hong Kong's Tai Po district, and spread across seven of the development's eight residential towers.

At the time of posting, it is reported that 128 people have been killed and a further 70 injured. Dozens more are still missing. It has taken more than 2,300 firefighters to bring the blaze under control.

The apartment blocks were undergoing renovation work at the time. While investigations are ongoing, it appears that the bamboo scaffolding and flammable debris netting covering the building's may have contributed to the fire's rapid spread. Hong Kong officials stated on Friday that they believed expanded polystyrene foam placed on the outside of the windows was also a significant factor.

Three people overseeing the renovations have been arrested for manslaughter, and authorities have launched a corruption inquiry.

In a further painful echo of London's Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, it is emerging that many residents of Wang Fuk Court had been raising concerns about fire safety in their buildings for some time before this week's disaster. Hong Kong's fire service has also found that fire alarms in all eight blocks were not working effectively.

My thoughts, and those of all of us on The B1M team, are with everyone affected by this tragedy. We will work to ensure the lessons are shared through our platform to prevent something like this from ever happening again.

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