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Build it Bigger

Season 1 2006

  • 2006-02-20T03:00:00Z on Science
  • 47m
  • 4h 42m (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Architect Danny Forster takes you inside some of the most head-scratching builds in the world. Join Danny as he meets the men and women tackling the unique challenges of constructing the tallest buildings, the most effective military tanks, the largest luxury cruise ships, and the most extreme thrill rides. How do you build a 3,113-foot-long wooden roller coaster in winter temperatures of minus 40 degrees? Or get your workers safely to and from a worksite on a skyscraper that's 1,614 feet above street level? Or dig a water tunnel - along the San Adreas Fault and 1,000 feet below the earth's surface - without it collapsing on itself ... or flooding? Our intrepid host answers these puzzles and more. Don't miss the big stories behind these even bigger engineering marvels.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2006-02-20T03:00:00Z

1x01 Superstadium

Series Premiere

1x01 Superstadium

  • 2006-02-20T03:00:00Z47m

Danny Forster travels to Phoenix, AZ to find the construction site of the new football stadium for the Arizona Cardinals. Danny goes behind the scenes of the construction of the facade of the new stadium. He works on joining railroad track sections together. The tracks will be used to move the natural grass playing surface of the stadium outside for natural light.

2006-03-09T03:00:00Z

1x02 Megatunnel

1x02 Megatunnel

  • 2006-03-09T03:00:00Z47m

Danny travels to Kuala Lumpur to the site of a massive tunneling project. In order to ease flooding issues the Malayan government chose to build a tunnel beneath the city to divert floodwater. The tunnel will be split into two layers, with one being used as a toll-road to ease congestion on the roads of the city.

2006-06-01T02:00:00Z

1x03 Biggest Warship

1x03 Biggest Warship

  • 2006-06-01T02:00:00Z47m

Danny travels to Newport News, VA to the dry-dock containing the USS George Bush, the newest, and largest aircraft carrier of the US fleet. The ship is halfway through construction. Massive cranes are used to assemble sections of the ship constructed nearby.

2006-06-27T02:00:00Z

1x04 Sakhalin Oil and Ice

1x04 Sakhalin Oil and Ice

  • 2006-06-27T02:00:00Z47m

Danny travels to a remote Russian island for the construction site of the Sakhalin Oil and Gas Complex. The multi-billion dollar project is designed to drill for oil and gas in the northern Pacific. Danny gets some first-hand experience in constructing this mega facility.

2006-07-06T02:00:00Z

1x05 Big Easy Rebuild

1x05 Big Easy Rebuild

  • 2006-07-06T02:00:00Z47m

Danny travels to New Orleans, LA to assist in rebuilding levees damaged during Hurricane Katrina.

Season Finale

2006-07-13T02:00:00Z

1x06 Space Tower

Season Finale

1x06 Space Tower

  • 2006-07-13T02:00:00Z47m

Danny travels to Spain for the site of the Torre del Espacio or Space Tower.

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