Extreme Engineering

Extreme Engineering

Extreme Engineering exposes the challenges of designing and building the largest andmost outrageous and awe-inspiring projects ever conceived. No project is too large or complex. Watch computer animations of amazing structures taking shape, and follow the efforts of engineers and scientists taking on what to most of us would seem impossible.
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Episoder

  1. S1 E1 - Tokyo's Sky City

    12. april 2003
    42min
    TV-G
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - Transatlantic Tunnel

    15. april 2003
    45min
    TV-G
    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.
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  3. S1 E3 - Subways in America

    14. april 2003
    42min
    TV-G
    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.
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  4. S1 E4 - Bridging the Bering Strait

    29. april 2003
    44min
    TV-G
    Already on the drawing boards, The Bridge rejoins North America and Asia.
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  5. S1 E5 - City in a Pyramid

    22. april 2003
    43min
    TV-G
    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.
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  6. S1 E6 - Building Hong Kong's Airport

    13. mai 2003
    44min
    TV-G
    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.
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  7. S1 E7 - Widening the Panama Canal

    3. juni 2003
    44min
    TV-G
    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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  8. S1 E8 - Tunneling Under the Alps

    6. mai 2003
    38min
    TV-G
    This Swiss monster is the longest tunnel in the world.
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  9. S1 E9 - Holland's Barriers to the Sea

    20. mai 2003
    40min
    TV-G
    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.
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  10. S1 E10 - Boston's Big Dig

    27. mai 2003
    34min
    TV-G
    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.
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