Name: Extreme Engineering
Released: 2003-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Danny Forster

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

Engineering feats around the globe keep getting bigger and more ambitious. The most awe-inspiring modern achievements ever conceived are explored as builders design and construct projects so huge they're almost beyond imagination.

2003 · 45m

Starring Danny Forster

Director Pip Gilmour

EPISODE 1

Turning Torso

In Sweden, the construction of the world's largest residential structure is underway.

44m
EPISODE 2

Venice Flood Gates

Find out what measures are required of Venetians as experts attempt to keep the world's most beautiful city from going underwater.

52m
EPISODE 3

Container Ships

New cargo vessels are changing the industry. Shipbuilders are making them so huge, they require the re-dredging and retrofitting of the world's cargo ports and canals.

43m
EPISODE 4

Oakland Bay Bridge

The New Bay Bridge is the biggest construction project in California history. This two-mile, earthquake-proof road will replace the most heavily trafficked bridge in the country; the span linking San Francisco to Oakland and the East Bay.

44m
EPISODE 5

Iceland Tunnels

The Eastern Highland, a vast plateau 100 miles south of the Artic Circle, is the site of a bold challenge of extreme engineering. World-class tunnel diggers are carving more than 45 miles of tunnels through solid rock hundreds of feet underground.

43m
EPISODE 6

Off-Shore Oil Platforms

America runs on oil. One-third of that oil gets pumped from wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Follow the dangerous construction of the real workhorses of America's offshore drilling industry; the massive and mobile contraptions known as jack-up rigs.

43m