Extreme Engineering

Season 6 - Extreme Engineering

• Season 6 Episode 13: Hurricane-Proof Homes Architect Danny Forster joins engineering crews in various roles, gaining a first-hand insight into the work they carry out
• Season 6 Episode 12: Mountain of Steel Tiff Needell presents a documentary series examining ambitious engineering schemes
• Season 6 Episode 11: Oil Rigs Architect Danny Forster joins engineering crews in various roles, gaining a first-hand insight into the work they carry out
• Season 6 Episode 10: Major League Stadium Amazing feats of engineering designed by some of the most audacious and innovative manufacturers in the industry are put to the test
• Season 6 Episode 9: Deepest Tunnel Amazing feats of engineering designed by some of the most audacious and innovative manufacturers in the industry are put to the test
• Season 6 Episode 8: Biggest Casino Amazing feats of engineering designed by some of the most audacious and innovative manufacturers in the industry are put to the test
• Season 6 Episode 7: High Risk Tower Danny Forster gets an inside view of the building of the Trump Tower in Chicago, which is made entirely of reinforced concrete and officially the world's tallest formwork structure
• Season 6 Episode 6: Coaster Build Off Danny Forster assists with the building of a new rollercoaster, and takes a ride on some of the newest 'scream machines' to uncover how they are pushing the limits of human physical endurance
• Season 6 Episode 5: Battle Machines Danny Forster heads to Anniston Army Depot, where he attempts to re-assemble an Abrams tank, and helps build components for the machine before testing his handiwork on the firing range
• Season 6 Episode 4: World's Tallest Skyscraper Architect Danny Forster gets a first-hand look at the frame of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, which, when completed, will be the tallest structure in the world
• Season 6 Episode 3: Boot Camp Danny Forster spends a week with a firm of builders, and receives training on the site's heavy machinery and learning the daily routine, under the careful scrutiny of his sceptical colleagues
• Season 6 Episode 2: Fault Zone Tunnel Inside one of the world's most dangerous tunnelling projects, as Danny Forster works with miners outside Los Angeles to dig two tunnels intended to supply water to California
• Season 6 Episode 1: Super Fast Warship Danny Forster goes onboard a US Navy destroyer to meet the teams responsible for refuelling and working the radars. Plus, a visit to Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine

Season 5 - Extreme Engineering

• Season 5 Episode 6: Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel: Sweden (2006) The Hallandsas tunnel project may be the world's most complicated.
• Season 5 Episode 5: California Academy of Sciences (2006) The construction of the California Academy of Sciences wins praise for its eco-friendly design.
• Season 5 Episode 4: Stonecutters Bridge: Hong Kong (2006) The Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong is to set a world record with a cable-stayed span of more than one kilometer.
• Season 5 Episode 3: JFK: JetBlue Terminal (2006) JetBlue's terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
• Season 5 Episode 2: World's Biggest Arch Bridge (2006) Architect Danny Forster gets a first-hand look at the frame of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, which, when completed, will be the tallest structure in the world
• Season 5 Episode 1: NYC: South Ferry Subway Station (2006) The South Ferry Terminal subway station is the first new station in New York since the beginning of the 20th century.

Season 4 - Extreme Engineering

• Season 4 Episode 6: Space Tower (2006) The construction of Madrid's 700ft-tall Space Tower, one of Spain's tallest buildings and the world's only skyscraper to boast a different floor plan on each level
• Season 4 Episode 5: Saving New Orleans (2006) Danny Forster examines some of the engineering projects that are helping to rebuild New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
• Season 4 Episode 4: Sakhalin Oil and Ice (2006) Danny Forster travels to the Russian island of Sakhalin, where the huge oil rigs and natural gas plants are being constructed to exploit the area's natural resources
• Season 4 Episode 3: USS Bush Aircraft Carrier (2006) The construction of the world's largest aircraft carrier the USS George HW Bush - a floating city designed to serve as a combat airport, defending American interests around the world
• Season 4 Episode 2: Malaysia Smart Tunnel (2006) The enormous drainage tunnel being created beneath the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur, built to deal with the devastating floods affecting the area
• Season 4 Episode 1: Super-Stadium (2006) The Arizona Cardinals' showcase sports arena which, with its slide-out tray field, could be the shape of things to come in stadium design

Season 3 - Extreme Engineering

• Season 3 Episode 6: Dubai's Ski Resort (2006) One of the countries in the United Arab Emirates has an indoor alpine ski resort.
• Season 3 Episode 5: Gotthard Tunnel (2006) Gotthard Base Tunnel creates a flat rail link for future travel through the Alps.
• Season 3 Episode 4: Woodrow Wilson Bridge (2006) The Woodrow Wilson Bridge spans the Potomac River connecting Virginia and Maryland.
• Season 3 Episode 3: Hong Kong Cable Car (2006) A team of experts builds an impressive cable car on Hong Kong's Lantau Island.
• Season 3 Episode 2: El Cajon Dam (2005) Constructing El Cajon Dam on the Rio Grande de Santiago in Mexico.
• Season 3 Episode 1: The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform (2006) Europe's first liquefied natural gas plant is being built in Spain for installation within the Arctic Circle.

Season 2 - Extreme Engineering

• Season 2 Episode 9: Excavators (2004) The design of a $10million custom-built excavator - a machine used to produce ferrous supplies for global export - for use in the world's largest opencast iron mine
• Season 2 Episode 8: Looking into the Milau Bridge (2004) Danny Forster joins engineering crews working on the Millau Bridge, which is expected to be the highest in the world and will link Spain, Italy and France
• Season 2 Episode 7: Cooper River Bridge (2004) The blueprints for the Cooper River project in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the longest cable-stay bridges in the world
• Season 2 Episode 6: Off-Shore Oil Platform (2005) Engineers race to erect a huge rig in an effort to get ahead of their competitors in the race for lucrative deep-sea oil
• Season 2 Episode 5: Iceland Tunnels (2004) Diggers congregate in Iceland's Eastern Highland to participate in an audacious engineering challenge, carving through miles of solid rock to create a tunnel
• Season 2 Episode 4: Oakland Bay Bridge (2004) Next on: Thursday 9th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel The construction of an earthquake-proof bridge to replace the heavily congested link between San Francisco, Oakland and the East Bay
• Season 2 Episode 3: Container Ships (2004) Next on: Wednesday 8th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel Architect Danny Forster joins engineering crews in various roles, gaining a first-hand insight into the work they carry out
• Season 2 Episode 2: Venice Floodgates (2004) Next on: Tomorrow at 6:00am PDT - Science Channel How teams of designers and engineers constructed a series of steel barriers in Venice to prevent the encroaching Adriatic Sea from flooding the historic city
• Season 2 Episode 1: Turning Torso (2004) The attempt to build the tallest skyscraper in northern Europe, designed to stand 600ft tall when completed. Engineers brave the freezing temperatures, dark winters and tempestuous winds of Malmo, Sweden, to get the building up on schedule - only to discover they must rethink their original plan

Season 1 - Extreme Engineering

• Season 1 Episode 10: Widening the Panama Canal (2004) Next on: Friday 17th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel Tiff Needell narrates a documentary looking at plans to update the Panama Canal. This magnificent waterway cuts through 50 miles of tropical jungle, allowing ships to travel easily from the Atlantic to the Pacific. However, time has passed this engineering marvel by - many modern supercargo ships are three times the size the canal can safely accommodate, so plans are in motion to widen the structure. The project faces all manner of environmental challenges, as well as leaving the canal closed to…
• Season 1 Episode 9: Boston's Big Dig (2003) Architect Danny Forster explores the transport system in Boston, Massachusetts, which features a multi-lane underground motorway and the widest cable-stayed bridge ever made
• Season 1 Episode 8: Holland's Barrier to the Sea (2003) Holland's Delta Works and Measlandkering barriers, outstanding engineering feats designed to hold back three rivers and a raging sea
• Season 1 Episode 7: Building Hong Kong's Airport (2003) Tiff Needell narrates the story behind the construction of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok Airport, an ambitious project that took seven years to complete. As the city grew, the original terminal became both inadequately small and potentially dangerous, requiring planes to navigate between skyscrapers to land, leaving engineers with no choice but to create an entirely new island and build the world's largest suspension bridge to link the structure to the city
• Season 1 Episode 6: Tunneling Through the Alps (2003) Next on: Thursday 16th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel New series. Tiff Needell presents a documentary series examining ambitious engineering schemes, beginning with a multi-billion dollar project to build two railway tunnels running under the Swiss Alps. Stretching 21 and 31 miles, these two structures are the largest of their kind ever attempted, and when finished will allow passengers to travel from Milan to Zurich in less than two hours. The tunnels are dug by gigantic boring machines three storeys high and the length of four football fields, eq…
• Season 1 Episode 5: Bridging the Bering Strait (2003) Proposals to build a bridge across the Bering Strait, carrying the promise of economic growth in both North America and Asia
• Season 1 Episode 4: Building the Great Pyramid (2003) Myths surround the construction of the largest pyramid.
• Season 1 Episode 3: Transatlantic Tunnel (2003) Next on: Wednesday 15th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel The prototype for a floating tunnel in which magnetically levitated trains could travel between New York, London and Paris at 5,000mph
• Season 1 Episode 2: Subways in America (2003) Next on: Monday 13th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel Architect Danny Forster joins engineering crews in various roles, gaining a first-hand insight into the work they carry out
• Season 1 Episode 1: Tokyo's Sky City (2003) Next on: Friday 10th July 6:00am PDT - Science Channel Proposals for a massive pyramid housing skyscrapers within its structure to be built over water, in a bid to ease overcrowding in Tokyo

Episodes - Extreme Engineering

• Turbo-Charged Boats Danny Forster joins a team rebuilding a racing boat in Florida, and takes part in a practice test

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  • Region: R1
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