Build it Bigger

Épisode 1 - Superstadium

19 février 2006

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.

Épisode 2 - Megatunnel

8 mars 2006

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.

Épisode 3 - Biggest Warship

31 mai 2006

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.

Épisode 4 - Sakhalin Oil And Ice

26 juin 2006

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.

Épisode 5 - Big Easy Rebuild

5 juillet 2006

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

Épisode 6 - Space Tower

12 juillet 2006

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

Épisode 1 - Coaster Build Off

10 juillet 2007

In the premiere episode of Build it Bigger, host Danny Forster goes on-site to the construction of two different roller coasters. One is a traditional wooden coaster, and the other a modern steel coaster. Danny works with the construction crews as they assemble various segments of the tracks.

Épisode 2 - Battle Machines

17 juillet 2007

Danny goes to the Fort Knox Armor Center to get hands on experience with an M1 Abrams tank.

Épisode 3 - World's Tallest Skyscraper

24 juillet 2007

Danny travels to the building site of the Shanghai World Financial Center, soon to be the world's tallest skyscraper, to help with the construction.

Épisode 4 - Super Fast Warship

7 août 2007

Danny travels to the Bath Iron Works in Maine to assist in the construction of a modern warship. He takes a behind the scenes look at how they add the finishing touches.

Épisode 5 - Boot Camp

14 août 2007

In this episode Danny goes to construction boot camp.

Épisode 6 - Fault Zone Tunnel

21 août 2007

Danny goes to Southern California to assist in the drilling of water supply tunnels. He goes 1000 feet under a mountain range to help with the construction.

Épisode 7 - Hurricane-Proof Homes

28 août 2007

Danny explores how heavy-duty modular homes are made from the beginning to the end.

Épisode 8 - Floating City

4 septembre 2007

Danny travels to Florida to discover how some of the worlds biggest cruise ships are made, and finds himself in Finland helping with the construction process.

Épisode 9 - Biggest Casino

12 septembre 2007

Danny travels to Las Vegas, NV to the construction site of Palazzo, the newest hotel and casino to hit the strip.

Épisode 10 - High-Risk Tower

19 septembre 2007

Danny travel to Chicago to help build Donald Trump\'s new tower. Danny will help build the 30th floor of this skyscraper.

Épisode 11 - Turbocharged Boats

26 septembre 2007

Danny travels to Florida to help rebuild one of the circuit racing boats. He must help them finish within two weeks, if they want to get it done before the next race.

Épisode 12 - Mountain of Steel

3 octobre 2007

Danny heads to Galicia, Spain, to help build the half billion dollar cultural center on a hill that overlooks a medieval city. He helps build six different buildings in the complex.

Épisode 13 - Deepest Tunnel

10 octobre 2007

Danny travels to Istanbul, Turkey, to help with a tunnel under water.

Épisode 14 - Major League Stadium

17 octobre 2007

In Washington, DC, 800 workers attempt to design and build a $650 million baseball stadium in less than two years. Danny finds out if they can finish the 41,000-seat Nationals stadium and helps complete the largest scoreboard in the US.

Épisode 1 - Dallas Cowboys Stadium

20 avril 2009

Behold the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. 3 million square feet. 73 acres. Costing over $1.1 billion dollars. Room for 100,000 fans. Join host Danny Forster as we explore the largest football stadium ever constructed in the United States.

Épisode 2 - City Center Las Vegas

21 avril 2009

Épisode 3 - Hong Kong Bridge

27 avril 2009

Host Danny Forster heads to China's south coast to climb atop the nearly completed Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong. This $343 million dollar engineering marvel has a 3,340-foot main span, making it the world's 2nd longest cable-stayed bridge

Épisode 4 - Navy Amphibious Warship

4 mai 2009

The LPD17 is a new class of amphibious assault ship for the US Navy that can launch over 700 Marines and equipment on helicopters and hovercrafts. Join host Danny Forster as we explore the innovative 700-foot long and 25,000-ton stealth vessel.

Épisode 5 - Panama Canal

18 mai 2009

Once the largest and most expensive engineering project the world had ever seen, the Panama Canal is in danger of becoming obsolete. Join host Danny Forster as he explores the new, $5.25 Billion expansion project.

Épisode 6 - Peru Dam & Tunnel

18 mai 2009

One of the deepest tunnels ever attempted will break through the Andes to bring water to drought-ridden farms in western Peru. Join host Danny Forster as he visits remote Olmos to learn how this project will dramatically impact this country's future.

Épisode 7 - Abu Dhabi

1 juin 2009

Host Danny Forster visits the $500 billion Al Raha Beach development in Abu Dhabi, where they reclaim land from the sea and erect buildings that will revolutionize the world of architecture.

Épisode 8 - NASA

26 juin 2009

Host Danny Forster visits NASA for an unprecedented look behind the scenes as they transition from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation Program. We'll help build the rocket that's taking American space exploration into the future: the Ares

Épisode 1 - Singapore Sky Park

8 avril 2010

Danny Forster takes us to Singapore, where the tiny island nation is doing something that's never been done before — building the first ever Skypark. A modern version of the hanging gardens of Babylon, this 7000-ton urban oasis will hang 650 feet in the air on top of 3 soaring skyscrapers.

Épisode 2 - Rio De Janerio's Power Island Project

15 avril 2010

Rio de Janeiro was recently awarded the two biggest sporting events in the world — the Olympics and World Cup. But before they'll be ready, they still have one major problem — frequent widespread blackouts. So now, Brazil is currently building one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world. Host Danny Forster takes us into the wilderness 100 miles from Rio, where workers are rapidly building 5 massive canals, and tunneling through 7 mountains, to move a powerful river through two dams — all to make sure that while the whole world is watching Rio, the lights stay on.

Épisode 3 - Building a Better New Orleans

22 avril 2010

Five years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is reinventing hurricane protection, with the largest public works project in U.S. history. The centerpiece of the project — a massive 2-mile long, 26-foot high storm surge barrier — is designed to defend against the fiercest storms on earth. Brad Pitt's Make it Right foundation is also pitching in to help rebuild, constructing 150 of the most hurricane resistant homes in the world, in New Orleans' most devastated neighborhood. But with hurricane season looming, engineers have just 18 months to protect the Big Easy before the next hurricane hits.

Épisode 4 - Kuwait Tower

29 avril 2010

Kuwait is building the world's tallest twisting structure, the Al Hamra tower. Clad in over 2000 tons of limestone, and capped by a 17-story open restaurant with views of the Persian Gulf, this incredible building is the perfect desert skyscraper.

Épisode 5 - South African Gold Mine

7 mai 2010

Travel to the deepest place on Earth, Johannesburg, South Africa's Mponeng Gold Mine. South Africa's economy depends on gold, but recently, productivity has plummeted. Now, Mponeng is fighting back by digging deeper than man has ever gone, towards an untapped gold reef worth $10 billion. Setting a new depth record every day, workers blast through super-heated rock nearly 3 miles down, in the most remote and dangerous construction site on the planet.

Épisode 6 - Melbourne Stadium

20 mai 2010

The Victorian government has invested nearly $270 million to create one of the most innovative stadiums ever built — the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium. Melbourne wanted their new stadium to be the crown jewel of their sports district — an icon for the entire city — so they've commissioned the most structurally innovative arena in the southern hemisphere. The stadium will be a living, breathing work of art on the outside, and the ultimate athlete and spectator experience on the inside.

Épisode 7 - Overhauling The Bay Bridge

27 mai 2010

The overhaul of the Bay Bridge is one of the biggest construction projects in the country right now. After almost a decade, California is nearing the crucial end of what has become its most expensive public works project ever, the $6 billion dollar rebuilding and earthquake-proofing of the Bay Bridge. This massive overhaul involves building an entirely new approach into San Francisco, retrofitting the 4.5-mile double suspension bridge with more than 17 million pounds of structural steel and completely replacing the 2.2-mile cantilever bridge with a self-anchored suspension bridge, a skyway, and new touchdown into Oakland.

Épisode 8 - Gotthard Base Tunnel

30 mai 2010

Welcome to the world's longest worksite —thirty- five miles long. Right now, Switzerland's government is spending $18 billion to revolutionize European transit, using the world's largest Tunnel Boring Machine to build the longest tunnel in history — the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Connecting from Southern Germany to Northern Italy, the GBT will circumvent the winding mountain passes that serve as the current transit system, getting people and goods across the Alps up to 3 times faster, and safer than ever before.

Épisode 9 - Abu Dhabi Central Market

10 juin 2010

Abu Dhabi City is building, and building BIG. They're hard at work on an incredible $300 billion plan to grow as quickly as possible. But they want to do it while protecting the city's culture, heritage, and natural environment. The centerpiece of this plan towers over the heart of the city: Aldar's appropriately-named Central Market. A 12-acre urban oasis filling 4 blocks, Central Market is a self-sustainable community for the modern ages, designed with a uniquely Arab point of view. Centered around the tallest residential tower on Earth, Central Market will be the first facility in the world that will take care of every spiritual, material, and relaxation need a person could have. It will also feature one of the world's tallest office towers, entertainment facilities for all ages, sky-high playgrounds for children, high-end shops, Edenesque gardens, hotels, as well as a reinvention of a traditional Arabian Souq — complete with a large mosque and vast outdoor market space filled with traditional Arabian goods.

Épisode 10 - Port of Rotterdam

17 juin 2010

The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is the largest in the entire Western Hemisphere. Located less than 24 hours by road or rail from every EU capitol, it has for decades been the heartbeat of the European Union, and a cornerstone of the entire world's economy. But now, that cornerstone is in danger of collapse. With 90% of products today shipped by container, Rotterdam's container terminals are nearing capacity, threatening to become a trade bottleneck that could cripple a continent already devastated by recession. To make sure this doesn't happen, the Port of Rotterdam has launched the Maasvlakte 2 Project — an ambitious $4 billion plan to triple the port's container capacity by 2013. But in a country with literally nowhere else to build, that means undertaking the biggest land reclamation project in history, turning 8 square miles of the stormy North Sea into Europe's new gateway to the world. And it's much more than just earth-moving. To keep the port running 24-7, they're building 3 new power plants, and to house the army of workers servicing Europe's largest construction project, they are building the biggest hotel in the Netherlands — entirely from recycled shipping containers. To plan for the future, everything at the Maasvlakte 2 will be super-sized to accommodate the mammoth container ships of the future. Upon completion, it will be the most valuable port facility ever, providing the largest ships in the world direct connection to Europe's industrial heartland. Build it Bigger has unprecedented access to all aspects of this amazing project, as engineers literally reshape the Dutch coast, all while keeping one of the world's busiest ports up and running.

Épisode 1 - Rebuilding New York's Subway

8 avril 2011

Danny takes us to New York City, where the largest public works project in the country is happening: a $15 billion expansion of the NYC transit system. He heads 150 feet underground to find out what can be done without shutting down the city above.

Épisode 2 - Drought-Proofing Australia

15 avril 2011

After 13 years of record-breaking droughts Melbourne looks to secure its future with a $3.5 billion desalination plant that will turn saltwater into freshwater. Danny joins crews as they build two undersea tunnels, 29 buildings and 52 miles of pipeline

Épisode 3 - Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation

22 avril 2011

After decades of Soviet occupation, Azerbaijan is reinventing itself. With a $6 billion a year renovation and over 500 new developments, Danny Forster goes behind the scenes of Baku's construction projects: the Flame Towers and Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center.

Épisode 4 - London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium

29 avril 2011

The London Aquatics Centre will host 44 swimming & diving events during the 2012 Olympics and live on as a new addition to the London landscape. Danny Forster goes with crews as they construct one of the most advanced swimming facilities ever built.

Épisode 5 - Constructing Serbia's Largest Bridge

18 juin 2011

Danny Forster joins crews as they construct Serbia's newest national icon. The Sava River Bridge in Belgrade will be the world's largest single pylon cable stayed bridge and improve a critical freight corridor connecting central Europe to the East.

Épisode 6 - Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City

25 juin 2011

The Netherlands is running out of land. Nearly 70% of its land, which comprises half its population lies beneath sea level. Rather than fight back the sea, engineers are radically making it an ally, using it to create real estate where none exists.

Épisode 7 - Building Mumbai's Modern Airport

2 juillet 2011

The $2 billion Mumbai Airport Expansion project is one of India's most ambitious undertakings ever. If they succeed, it could completely change the way airports are designed.

Épisode 8 - Turkey's Mammoth Hydropower Dam

9 juillet 2011

Crews are now carving out the Turkey's largest construction site in the country's most challenging terrain by building one of the tallest and strongest dams ever made.