• 2003
  • 50m
Extreme Engineering

Summary Each episode of Extreme Engineering features a major construction and engineering project. Some projects are completed ones, like the new Hong Kong airport. Other projects are those under construction like the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Alps. Still other episodes showcase futuristic projects that may never be built, like the Transatlantic Tunnel. Most episodes examine possible disaster scenarios that could threaten the projects. View more details

  • 2003
  • 50m

Extreme Engineering

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Larc Spies John Littlefield Danny Forster Joseph Giotta

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7.4

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Apr 12, 2003

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Filming locations : Atlantic Ocean

Production companies : Discovery Channel Pictures Powderhouse Productions

Summary Each episode of Extreme Engineering features a major construction and engineering project. Some projects are completed ones, like the new Hong Kong airport. Other projects are those under construction like the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Alps. Still other episodes showcase futuristic projects that may never be built, like the Transatlantic Tunnel. Most episodes examine possible disaster scenarios that could threaten the projects. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Apr 12, 2003

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Discovery Channel

Language : English

Filming locations : Atlantic Ocean

Production companies : Discovery Channel Pictures Powderhouse Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Apr 12, 2003
Tokyo's Sky City
In Japan, plans are on the table to build Sky City, the tallest structure on earth. The towering, vertical city will house more than 100,000 people. Sky City would be home to the world's very first homesteaders in the sky.
Episode 2 • Apr 14, 2003
Subways in America
The world's great cities have always struggled to find a balance between the need to attract more and more people and their ability to transport them efficiently.
Episode 3 • Apr 15, 2003
Transatlantic Tunnel
Rail travel may yet go intercontinental. In prototypes of floating tunnels, 5,000-mph magnetically levitated trains travel between New York, London and Paris. Passengers would dine and sleep while whales and nuclear subs glide around them.
Episode 4 • Apr 22, 2003
City in a Pyramid
Tokyo is one of the most crowded cities in the world. To relieve the stress on a city bursting at the seams, engineers look to build a massive Pyramid over the water, with skyscrapers suspended like peapods within its enormous frame.
Episode 5 • Apr 29, 2003
Bridging the Bering Strait
Already on the drawing boards, The Bridge rejoins North America and Asia.
Episode 6 • May 06, 2003
Tunneling Under the Alps
This Swiss monster is the longest tunnel in the world.
Episode 7 • May 13, 2003
Building Hong Kong's Airport
The Hong Kong international airport is the largest civil engineering project in history and the largest enclosed space in the world. It is also 16 miles out to sea and built on a platform that was constructed by leveling two small islands.
Episode 8 • May 20, 2003
Holland's Barriers to the Sea
The Delta Works, a series of massive, computer-controlled sea barriers and dams, straddle each of the major rivers emptying into the delta. The Measlandkering is a gigantic sea surge barrier.
Episode 9 • May 27, 2003
Boston's Big Dig
In a series of engineering firsts, two interstate highways are being rebuilt beneath Boston, sending its traffic 120 feet underground! The "Big Dig" will take more than 30 years to build, but not without confronting unprecedented challenges.
Episode 10 • Jun 03, 2003
Widening the Panama Canal
Daily, ships the size of a city block transport goods through the Panama Canal to make the 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Officials have asked a team of European and American engineers to compete for a winning lock design.

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