Extreme Engineering (original) (raw)

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American documentary series

Extreme Engineering
Also known as Build It BiggerKings of Construction
Genre Documentary / Engineering / Architecture / Science
Directed by Peter FrumkinOlympia Stone
Presented by Danny Forster
Country of origin United States
Original language English
No. of seasons 9
No. of episodes 77 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 42 minutes
Original release
Network HD TheaterScience ChannelDiscovery Channel
Release April 13, 2003 (2003-04-13) –July 9, 2011 (2011-07-09)
Related
Engineering the Impossible (2002)

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.[1]

Origins of the show

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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 nine-mile-long (14 km) Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the over 4,000-foot-long (1,200 m) 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.

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

Season one[2] episode 4, Icarus' Dream. Master's of Engineering. Amazon Prime Television.

Season 2 was the first season produced in HDTV for HD Theater.

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.

  1. ^ "Discovery Channel::Meet the Host". Archived from the original on January 5, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Amazon Prime Masters of Engineering. 11:58 minutes into the episode 4 Icarus' Dream. October 31, 2020.