Extreme Engineering is a documentary television series aired on the Discovery Channel and The Science Channel which features futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. As of 2007, the show aired its sixth season. The show has been hosted by Danny Forster since season 4. The show was renamed Build It Bigger in the US but retains its name when broadcast in Europe.

Engineering the Impossible was a ground-breaking 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 (14 km)-long Gibralter Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the 4000+-foot-long 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.

This show sometimes airs under the name ‘Kings of Construction’ in countries outside of the USA.

Season 4: 2006

Powderhouse Productions produced 6 episodes for season 4 with host Danny Forster. It currently airs under the Build It Bigger name on HD Theater, The Science Channel & Discovery Channel.

4×26 SuperStadium University of Phoenix Stadium
4×27 MegaTunnel Storm Management And Road Tunnel (SMART) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4×28 Biggest Warship USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77)
4×29 Sakhalin Oil & Ice Sakhalin-II
4×30 Big Easy Rebuild Reconstruction of New Orleans
4×31 Space Tower Madrid’s Torre Espacio

Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections is a show, wherin the presenter, Richard Hammond, learns how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenous ways to develop new buildings and machines.
The show involves Richard Hammond looking at several areas of the modern development and learning – often from the designers of the development itself – from where they got the ideas that they use to bring the development to fruition.

AIRBUS A380: BIG BIRD
Nicknamed the Superjumbo, the Airbus A380 passenger airliner is the largest in history. It’s packed with cutting-edge technology but owes its very existence to the most unlikely connections – a Mongolian bow and a 19th century rocket.

TAIPEI 101: SIZE IS IMPORTANT
Heading to Taipei, Richard discovers the secrets of one of the world’s tallest buildings, Taipei 101. How is this tower connected to a birdcage, bamboo, racing yachts, sports cars and seat belts? This journey of discovery takes him from the mines of 18th century England to almost half a kilometre into the sky at some 64 kilometres per hour (that’s around a 37 second trip!)

KECK OBSERVATORY: LOOKING BEYOND THE FINAL FRONTIER
Next, Richard looks at the history embedded in the Keck Observatory. How could a sand-blaster, a Cold War spy gadget and the invention of refrigerators have led to the creation of this super telescope? And using just a satellite dish and some foil is it possible to set fire to a boat? Richard experiments.

TROLL-A PLATFORM: THE LONGEST LEGS IN THE BUSINESS?
Finally, Richard braves the stormy North Sea to visit the incredible Troll-A Platform
– the largest object ever moved across the earth’s surface by man – and learns firsthand how a single musical note could have spelt catastrophe for the Troll-A.