Extreme Engineering

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox television Extreme Engineering is a documentary television series that aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program featured future and ongoing engineering projects. After ending of season 3 it airs under the Build It Bigger name. The series last season aired in July 2011. Danny Forster first hosted the series in season 4 and has been the host since season 6.

Origins of the show

Engineering the Impossible was a 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 Template:Convert Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the over Template:Convert 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.

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Gotthard Base Tunnel ( Season 1, Episode 6) – The TBM from Bodio arrived at MFS Faido in September 2006

Episodes

Pilot

Template:Episode table Season one episode 4, Icarus' Dream. Master's of Engineering. Amazon Prime Television.

Season 2: 2004

Season 2 was the first season produced in HDTV for HD Theater. Template:Episode table

Season 4: 2006

Powderhouse Productions produced six episodes for season 4 with host Danny Forster. After ending of season 3 it airs under the Build It Bigger name on HD Theater, The Science Channel, and Discovery Channel. Template:Episode table

See also

• Mega Builders
• Megastructures, a similar show on the National Geographic Channel
• Impossible Engineering

External links

• Powderhouse Productions homepage
• WAGtv homepage
• Extreme Engineering official website at Discovery Channel
• Extreme Engineering episode guide at Discovery Channel
• Build It Bigger official website at Science Channel
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• "Woodrow Wilson Bridge Featured On Discovery Channel Tonight" (Washington Post article)
• Symposium W.S.V Simon Stevin, student association of the Mechanical Engineering faculty of the Eindhoven University of Technology