Extreme Engineering

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Extreme Engineering is a series on the Discovery Channel which features futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. Now airing in its fourth season, Powderhouse Productions has just completed 6 episodes featuring the show's new host, Danny Forster.

1 Origins of the show
2 Episode List
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Origins of the show

Engineering the Impossible was a pilot produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel that discussed incredible engineering projects. This program won the Beijing International Science Film Festival Silver Award, and earned Discovery's third highest Monday night rating for 2002. After the success of this program, Discovery commissioned the first season of Extreme Engineering. 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 Discovery UK that were also broadcast in the US as part of the 4th season of Extreme Engineering.

[edit] Episode List

[edit] Engineering the Impossible

The Gibraltar bridge (being proposed)
Freedom ship (being proposed)
Hong Kong Mega Tower (on-hold/cancelled due to Central Reclamation Phase III lawsuit)

[edit] Season 1

Episode name	Project	Status at the time of series production
Tokyo's Sky City	Tokyo's Sky City	proposed
Subways In America	New York's new subway	proposed
Transatlantic Tunnel	The Transatlantic Tunnel	proposed
City in a Pyramid	The Pyramid City	proposed
Bridging the Bering Strait	The Bering Strait Bridge	proposed
Tunneling Under the Alps	Gotthard Base Tunnel	under construction
Building Hong Kong's Airport	Hong Kong International Airport	completed
Holland's Barriers to the Sea	Maeslantkering and Oosterscheldekering storm surge barriers	completed
Boston's Big Dig	Boston's Big Dig	under construction
Widening the Panama Canal	Panama Canal expansion project	proposed

[edit] Season 2 (Extreme Engineering: Under Construction)

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

Episode name	Project
Turning Torso	Turning Torso
Venice Flood Gates	Venice Tide Barrier Project (MOSE Project)
Container Ships	Shanghai Express
Iceland Tunnels	Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project
Oakland Bay Bridge	San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Cooper River Bridge	Cooper River Bridge
Millau Viaduct	Millau Viaduct
Oil Rigs	Jack up oil rigs in Louisiana
Excavators	super shovel

[edit] Season 3

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

Episode name	Project
The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform	Snohvit platform
The El Cajon Dam	El Cajon Dam
Hong Kong's Cable Car	Ngong Ping 360
Woodrow Wilson Bridge	Woodrow Wilson Bridge
Gotthard Tunnel	Gotthard Base Tunnel
Dubai's Ski Resort	Ski Dubai

[edit] Season 4

Powderhouse Productions produced 6 episodes for season 4 with host Danny Forster.

Episode name	Project
SuperStadium	Arizona Cardinals Stadium
MegaTunnel	Storm Management And Road Tunnel (SMART) under constuction in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sakhalin Oil & Ice	Sakhalin-II under construction
Biggest Warship	USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) under construction
Big Easy Rebuild	Reconstruction of New Orleans
Space Tower	Madrid's Torre Espacio under construction

[edit] Season 5

Episode name	Project
South Ferry Subway Station	The New York City Subway's new South Ferry station
World's Biggest Arch Bridge	Hoover Dam Bypass
JFK: JetBlue Terminal	Reconstruction of John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 5
Stonecutters Bridge: Hong Kong	Hong Kong's Stonecutters Bridge
California Academy of Sciences	California Academy of Sciences
Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel: Sweden	Sweden's Hallandsas railway tunnel