
Extreme Engineering
Date de parution : 13 avril 2003
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Tokyo's Sky City It examines the concept of constructing a giant tower in Japan that wouldn't be a just a building, but a public city in the sky. At the end it talks... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Subways in America This episode explores the current New York City subway and the plans for renovation. Also the World Trade Center Station post 9/11 and its hasty... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Transatlantic Tunnel The concept of building a tunnel across the Atlantic Ocean is talked about. It talks about the problems involved, and how it might someday be... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | City in a Pyramid This episode features Shimizu's Pyramid City, which would include dozens of 100-story skyscrapers with more than a million workers as part of a... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Bridging the Bering Strait Imagine driving across a bridge near the North Pole, or going from New York to London in just an hour through a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean.... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Tunneling Under the Alps A tunnel over 35 miles long is to be dug under the Swiss Alps to redirect Europe's traffic. This $7 billion project will take 6 years to complete... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Building Hong Kong's Airport Hong Kong has outgrown its small airport and quickly needed a new one in order to maintain its high traffic flow. The only place to put this new... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Holland's Barriers to the Sea Dutch engineers must overcome rising waters in the North Sea to protect their land. |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Boston's Big Dig Boston's new transport system, which features a multi-lane underground highway and the world's widest cable-stayed bridge |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Widening the Panama Canal A documentary looking at plans to update the Panama Canal. This magnificent waterway cuts through 50 miles of tropical jungle, allowing ships to... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Turning Torso The Turning Torso is the world's largest residential structure, rising 190 meters above Malmö, Sweden. |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Venice Flood Gates Venice floodgates Fact file When built: Started 2003, completion due 2010 Height: 30m Weight: 300 tons each Timescale: Seven years Construction... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Container Ships Covers the docking of a container ship at Long Beach (California) and the operation of the water front docks, where several thousand containers need... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Oakland Bay Bridge Imagine driving across a bridge near the North Pole, or going from New York to London in just an hour through a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean.... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Iceland Tunnels Fifty years after the idea of harnessing the frightening force of Iceland’s glacial rivers was first conceived, the vision is about to be realised.... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Off-shore Oil Platforms Engineers redesign oil platforms to withstand the harsh weather conditions in the Gulf of Mexico. |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Cooper River Bridge Connecting the bustling port city of Charleston and Mount Pleasant in South Carolina, the Cooper River Bridge will be the longest cable-stay bridge... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Millau Viaduct This episode examines the quest to build the world's highest bridge as part of a major highway connecting Paris with Italy and Spain. |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Excavators In northern Minnesota, the operators of the world's largest open-pit iron mine commission the construction of a $10 million custom-built... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 1 | The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform Europe's first liquefied natural gas plant sits on a floating platform. The platform was transported by ship from southern Spain to the coast of... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 2 | The El Cajon Dam The dam, which is the largest ongoing construction project in Latin America, is designed to rise 186 meters above the Rio Grande de Santiago river... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Hong Kong's Cable Car Engineers are building the Ngong Ping 360, the world's longest detachable cable car system, on Hong Kong's mountainous Lantau Island, spanning the... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Woodrow Wilson Bridge The 40-year-old Woodrow Wilson Bridge is being replaced by a new span crossing the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia, just south of... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Gotthard Tunnel The Gotthard Base Tunnel underneath the Swiss Alps will be the world's longest rail tunnel upon completion in 2015. |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Dubai's Ski Resort How do you make your mall stand out? By building one of the world's largest indoor ski resorts--in the deserts of Dubai! Ski Dubai features... |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Super Stadium Enter your state here |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Kuala Lumpur Mega Tunnel A 3-mile toll road is built on a 20-foot-high storm drain in Kuala Lumpur. |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Biggest Warship The series looks at the construction of the supercarrier USS George H.W. Bush. | |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Sakhalin Oil & Ice Enter your city here |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 5 | Big Easy Rebuild Enter your city here |
![]() | Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Space Tower The 700-ft.-high Torre del Espacio (Space Tower) will be the tallest skyscraper in Spain upon completion. In this episode, the cameras film the... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 1 | South Ferry Subway Station The South Ferry Terminal subway station is the first new subway station in New York City since the early 1900s. | |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 2 | World's Biggest Arch Bridge The Hoover Dam Bypass Project aims to remove traffic congestion along U.S. Highway 93 at the Colorado River crossing. A new arch bridge will span... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | JFK: JetBlue Terminal The original 1962 TWA Terminal (Terminal 5) at New York's JFK International Airport is remodeled for JetBlue Airlines. The 26 gates of the new... | |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Stonecutters Bridge: Hong Kong Suspended above one of the world's busiest waterways, the Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong will set a new record for the longest cable-stayed span,... |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 5 | California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, has won acclaim for an environmentally friendly design that features the use... |
![]() | Saison 5 - épisode 6 | Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel: Sweden The Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel Project, the world's most complicated tunneling project, is designed to remove a major bottleneck on the Gothenburg... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Coaster Build Off | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Battle Machines Danny Forster heads to Anniston Army Depot to re-assemble an Abrams tank. He also helps build components of this fighting machine and tests it on... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 3 | World's Tallest Skyscraper | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Building a Destroyer | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Boot Camp | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Fault Zone Tunnel | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Hurricane Proof Homes | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Floating City MS Independence of the Seas | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 9 | Biggest Casino Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 10 | High Risk Tower Building a Trump's Tower in Chicago | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 11 | Turbo-Charged Boats Rebuilding and practice test of an offshore racing boat | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 12 | Mountain of Steel City of Culture of Galicia | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 13 | Deepest Tunnel Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 14 | Major League Stadium Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Dallas Cowboys Stadium Building the new Cowboys Stadium | |
![]() | Saison 7 - épisode 2 | CityCenter, Las Vegas Enter your city here |
| Saison 7 - épisode 3 | Hong Kong Bridge Building the Stonecutters Bridge. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Navy Amphibious Warship The LPD17 is a new class of warship. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Panama Canal New $5.25 billion expansion projects. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Peru Dam & Tunnel Construction of the Limon Dam and one of the deepest tunnels ever attempted. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 7 | Abu Dhabi Al Raha Beach Development in Abu Dhabi | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 8 | NASA Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Singapore Sky Park Singapore's Skypark will hang 650 feet in the air on top of 3 skyscrapers. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Rio De Janeiro's Power Island Project Rio de Janeiro has frequent widespread blackouts. So Brazil is building one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world, consisting of two... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Kuwait Tower The world's tallest twisting structure, Kuwait's Al Hamra Tower, is looked at. | |
![]() | Saison 8 - épisode 4 | New Orleans Surge Barrier Enter your city here |
| Saison 8 - épisode 5 | South Africa's Mponeng Gold Mine Travel to the deepest place on Earth, Johannesburg, South Africa's Mponeng Gold Mine. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 6 | Overhauling the Bay Bridge Overhauling the San Francisco Bay Bridge is the biggest construction projects in the US. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 7 | Melbourne Stadium Enter your city here | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 8 | Gotthard Base Tunnel Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 9 | Abu Dhabi Central Market Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 10 | Port of Rotterdam Danny Forster goes behind the scenes at the Port of Rotterdam, where crews are in the middle of the largest Earth-moving project in history - all to... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Rebuilding New York City's Subway Enter your city here | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 2 | Drought-Proofing Australia | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 3 | Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 4 | London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium The London Aquatics Centre will host 44 swimming & diving events during the 2012 Olympics and live on as a new addition to the London landscape.... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 5 | Constructing Serbia's Largest Bridge | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 6 | Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 7 | Building Mumbai's Modern Airport Enter your phone number here | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 8 | Turkey's Mammoth Hydropower Dam |





































