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Extreme Engineering 

Extreme Engineering
Genre Documentary, Engineering
Written by Ed Fields
Directed by Peter Frumkin
Olympia Stone
Starring Danny Forster
Country of origin  United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 6
No. of episodes 45
Production
Location(s) Varies
Running time 60 min
Broadcast
Original channel HD Theater
The Science Channel
Discovery Channel
Original run April 1, 2003 – Present
Chronology
Related shows Engineering the Impossible (2002) TV
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Extreme Engineering is a documentary television series aired on the Discovery Channel and The Science Channel which features futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. As of 2007, the show aired its sixth season. The show has been hosted by Danny Forster since season 4.[1] The show was renamed Build It Bigger in the US but retains its name when broadcast in Europecitation needed.

Contents

Origins of the show

Engineering the Impossible was a ground-breaking 2-hour special, created and written by Alan Lindgren and produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel. It focused on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine mile (14 km)-long Gibralter Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the 4000+-foot-long Freedom Ship. This program won the Beijing International Science Film Festival Silver Award, and earned Discovery's second-highest, weeknight rating for 2002. After the success of this program, Discovery commissioned Powderhouse to produce the first season of the 10-part series, Extreme Engineering, whose episodes were written by Alan Lindgren, Ed Fields and several other Powderhouse writer-producers. Like Engineering the Impossible, the first season of Extreme Engineering focused on extreme projects of the future. Season 2 (and all seasons since) featured projects already in construction around the world.

WAGtv Ltd. produced 6 episodes for Discoverycitation needed that were also broadcast in the US as part of the 4th season of Extreme Engineering.

Episode List [2]

Engineering the Impossible

Season 1: 2003

Episode name Premiere Project Status at Production Current Status
Tokyo's Sky City 2003-04-13 Tokyo's Sky City Proposed Proposed
Subways In America 2003-04-15 East Side Access Proposed (some construction related to other project completed) Under Construction
Transatlantic Tunnel 2003-04-16 The Transatlantic Tunnel Proposed Proposed
City in a Pyramid 2003-04-23 The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid Proposed Proposed
Bridging the Bering Strait 2003-04-30 The Bering Strait Bridge Proposed Proposed
Tunneling Under the Alps 2003-05-07 Gotthard Base Tunnel Under Construction Under Construction
Building Hong Kong's Airport 2003-05-14 Hong Kong International Airport Completed Completed
Holland's Barriers to the Sea 2003-05-21 Maeslantkering and Oosterscheldekering storm surge barriers Completed Completed
Boston's Big Dig 2003-05-28 Boston's Big Dig Under Construction Completed
Widening the Panama Canal 2003-06-04 Panama Canal expansion project Under Construction Under Construction

Season 2: 2004

9 episodes were produced for season 2. It is also the first season produced in HDTV for HD Theater.

Episode name Premiere Project Status at production Current Status
Turning Torso 2004-07-07 Turning Torso Under construction Completed
Venice Flood Gates 2004-07-14 Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project) Under Construction Under Construction
Container Ships 2004-07-28 Adrian Mærsk (Maersk Line) Completed (In service)
Oakland Bay Bridge 2004-08-04 San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge Under construction Under construction
Iceland Tunnels 2004-09-01 Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project Under Construction
Off-shore Oil Platforms 2004-09-25 Jack up oil rigs in Louisiana
Cooper River Bridge 2004-10-05 Cooper River Bridge Under construction Completed
Millau Viaduct 2004-11-15 Millau Viaduct Under construction Completed
Excavators 2004-11-22 Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine

Season 3: 2005

WagTV produced 6 episodes that were acquired by Discovery for season 3.

Episode name Premiere Project Status at production Current Status
The Snøhvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform 2005-10-19 Snøhvit platform / MV Blue Marlin Under Construction Completed
The El Cajon Dam 2005-11-10 El Cajon Dam (Mexico) Under Construction Completed
Hong Kong's Cable Car 2005-12-02 (?) Ngong Ping 360 Under Construction Completed
Woodrow Wilson Bridge 2005-12-09 (?) Woodrow Wilson Bridge Under Construction Under Construction
Gotthard Tunnel 2006-01-01 Gotthard Base Tunnel Under Construction Under Construction
Dubai's Ski Resort 2006-01-21 Ski Dubai Under Construction Completed

Season 4: 2006

Powderhouse Productions produced 6 episodes for season 4 with host Danny Forster. It currently airs under the Build It Bigger name on HD Theater, The Science Channel & Discovery Channel

Episode name Premiere Project Status at production Current Status
SuperStadium 2006-02-19 University of Phoenix Stadium under construction completed
MegaTunnel 2006-03-08 Storm Management And Road Tunnel (SMART) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia under construction completed
Biggest Warship 2006-05-31 USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) under construction Christened
Sakhalin Oil & Ice 2006-06-28 Sakhalin-II under construction
Big Easy Rebuild 2006-07-05 Reconstruction of New Orleans under construction under construction
Space Tower 2006-07-12 Madrid's Torre Espacio under construction Almost complete

Season 5: 2006

Episode name Premiere Project Status at production Current Status
South Ferry Subway Station 2006-10-11 The New York City Subway's new South Ferry station Under construction
World's Biggest Arch Bridge 2006-10-18 Hoover Dam Bypass (Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge) Under construction Under construction
JFK: JetBlue Terminal 2006-10-25 Reconstruction of John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 5 Under construction Under construction
Stonecutters Bridge: Hong Kong 2006-11-01 Hong Kong's Stonecutters Bridge Under construction Under construction
California Academy of Sciences 2006-11-08 The rebuilding of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California Under construction Completed
Hallandsås Ridge Tunnel: Sweden 2006-11-15 Sweden's Hallandsas railway tunnel Under construction Under construction

Season 6: 2007 [3]

Episode name Premiere Project Status at production Current Status
Building a Destroyer 2007-10-16 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine Under Construction Under Construction
Fault Zone Tunnel 2007-10-23 Freshwater pipeline to support Southern California. Watch a TBM at work. Under Construction Under Construction
Boot Camp 2007-10-30 With Excavators in Boston, Massachusetts.
World's Tallest Skyscraper 2007-11-06 Shanghai World Financial Centre Under Construction Completed
Battle Machines 2007-11-13 An M1 Abrams tank undergoing maintenance at Fort Knox, Kentucky
Coaster Build Off 2007-11-20 Griffon a steel rollercoaster in Busch Gardens Europe and the Renegade in Valleyfair Under Construction Complete
Mountain of Steel 2007-11-27 City of Culture of Galicia Under Construction Under Construction

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ "Discovery Channel::Meet the Host" (2007-07-23). Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
  2. ^ "Discovery Channel::Extreme Engineering" (2007-07-23). Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
  3. ^ "Discovery Channel::Extreme Engineering" (2007-11-21). Retrieved on 2007-11-21.
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