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Build It Bigger

Architect Danny Forster gets up close and personal with mega-construction. Along with designers, engineers and builders, he'll find the most dangerous, most spectacular, most difficult and most inventively executed aspects of the job.
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Episodes

  1. S5 E1 - Rebuilding New York City's Subway

    April 7, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster goes to New York where the largest public works project in the country is happening, a $15 billion expansion of the New York City transit system.
  2. S5 E2 - Drought-Proofing Australia

    April 14, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster joins crews as they build two undersea tunnels in Melbourne, Australia. After years of record-breaking droughts, Melbourne looks to secure its future with a $3.5 billion desalination plant.
  3. S5 E3 - Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation

    April 21, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster explores the Flame Towers and Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. After decades of Soviet occupation, Azerbaijan is reinventing itself with a $6 billion a year renovation and 500 new developments.
  4. S5 E4 - London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium

    April 28, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster explores the construction of the London Aquatics Centre, one of the most advanced swimming facilities ever built, which will host 44 swimming and diving events during the 2012 Summer Olympics.
  5. S5 E5 - Constructing Serbia's Longest Bridge

    June 13, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster explores the construction of the Ada Bridge in Belgrade, Serbia, which will be the world’s largest cable-stayed bridge and improve a critical freight corridor connecting central Europe to the East.
  6. S5 E6 - Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City

    June 20, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster explores the construction of IJburd, in Amsterdam. This man-made island will be home to 45,000 residents, 18,000 new homes and the world’s largest floating office.
  7. S5 E7 - Building Mumbai's Modern Airport

    July 1, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster joins crews as they attempt to overhaul Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, without canceling a single flight. If they succeed, the new airport will revolutionize airport design.
  8. S5 E8 - Turkey's Mammoth Hydropowdered Deriner Dam

    July 8, 2011
    44min
    TV-G
    Architect Danny Forster joins crews as they build the Deriner Dam in Turkey. One of the tallest and strongest dams ever constructed, it will create enough energy to power the city of Istanbul forever.

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Directors

Craig BordersDaniel S. MillerChris Gidez

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Danny Forster

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