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.

Superstadium

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.

Megatunnel

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.

Biggest Warship

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.

Sakhalin Oil and Ice

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

Big Easy Rebuild

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

Space Tower

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.

Coaster Build Off

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

Battle Machines

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.

World's Tallest Skyscraper

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.

Super Fast Warship

In this episode Danny goes to construction boot camp.

Boot Camp

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.

Fault Zone Tunnel

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

Hurricane-Proof Homes

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.

Floating City

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

Biggest Casino

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

High-Risk Tower

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.

Turbocharged Boats

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.

Mountain of Steel

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

Deepest Tunnel

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.

Major League Stadium

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.

Dallas Cowboys Stadium

Danny visits CityCenter, a mega-resort erected in Las Vegas that aims to improve the city's image.

City Center Las Vegas

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

Hong Kong Bridge

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.

Navy Amphibious Warship

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.

Panama Canal

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.

Peru Dam & Tunnel

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.

Abu Dhabi

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

NASA

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.

Singapore Sky Park

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.

Rio De Janeiro's Power Island Project

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.

Building a Better New Orleans

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.

Kuwait Tower

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.

South African Gold Mine

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.

Melbourne Stadium

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.

Overhauling The Bay Bridge

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.

Gotthard Base Tunnel

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.

Abu Dhabi Central Market

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.

Port of Rotterdam

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.

Rebuilding New York's Subway

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

Drought-Proofing Australia

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.

Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation

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.

London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium

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.

Constructing Serbia's Largest Bridge

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.

Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City

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.

Building Mumbai's Modern Airport

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.

Turkey's Mammoth Hydropower Dam

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.

All Episodes of Build It Bigger

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Season 1

Superstadium

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/19/2006

Megatunnel

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2006

Biggest Warship

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/31/2006

Sakhalin Oil and Ice

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/26/2006

Big Easy Rebuild

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/5/2006

Space Tower

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/12/2006