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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 1 - Tokyo's Sky City
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    #1 - Tokyo's Sky City

    S1:E1

    It examines the concept of constructing a giant tower in Japan that wouldn't be a just a building, but a public city in the sky. At the end it talks about what a fire in the building would be like and how the fire department would handle it.

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  2. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 2 - Subways in America
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    #2 - Subways in America

    S1:E2

    This episode explores the current New York City subway and the plans for renovation. Also the World Trade Center Station post 9/11 and its hasty repair.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 3 - Transatlantic Tunnel
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    #3 - Transatlantic Tunnel

    S1:E3

    The concept of building a tunnel across the Atlantic Ocean is talked about. It talks about the problems involved, and how it might someday be possible. At the end it examines the concept of a submarine hitting the tunnel, and how hopefully this wouldn't ruin it.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 4 - City in a Pyramid
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    #4 - City in a Pyramid

    S1:E4

    This episode features Shimizu's Pyramid City, which would include dozens of 100-story skyscrapers with more than a million workers as part of a giant pyramid on the sea to provide more living space in Japan. Concepts such as construction robots, electricity issues, and building materials are examined. The pyramid could withstand a tidal wave, and perhaps protect the city as well.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 5 - Bridging the Bering Strait
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    #5 - Bridging the Bering Strait

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    Imagine driving across a bridge near the North Pole, or going from New York to London in just an hour through a tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean. These are just some of the awe-inspiring projects of today's builders and engineers. Jaw-dropping computer animation illustrates the largest, most outrageous projects ever conceived. As students learn about stretching the boundaries of modern engineering, they also gain understanding of the technological design process and come to understand how physics and chemistry are utilized to solve modern human engineering challenges.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 6 - Tunneling Under the Alps
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    #6 - Tunneling Under the Alps

    S1:E6

    A tunnel over 35 miles long is to be dug under the Swiss Alps to redirect Europe's traffic. This $7 billion project will take 6 years to complete with man and machine fighting the mountains 24/7.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 7 - Building Hong Kong's Airport
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    #7 - Building Hong Kong's Airport

    S1:E7

    Hong Kong has outgrown its small airport and quickly needed a new one in order to maintain its high traffic flow. The only place to put this new world class airport... 16 miles out in the ocean. This would require 22 miles of new super highway. It was predicted to take decades, but engineers were only given 7 years to build it.

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  8. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 8 - Holland's Barriers to the Sea
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    #8 - Holland's Barriers to the Sea

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    Dutch engineers must overcome rising waters in the North Sea to protect their land.

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  9. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 9 - Boston's Big Dig
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    #9 - Boston's Big Dig

    S1:E9

    Boston's new transport system, which features a multi-lane underground highway and the world's widest cable-stayed bridge

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  10. Extreme Engineering Season 1 Episode 10 - Widening the Panama Canal
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    #10 - Widening the Panama Canal

    S1:E10

    A documentary looking at plans to update the Panama Canal. This magnificent waterway cuts through 50 miles of tropical jungle, allowing ships to travel easily from the Atlantic to the Pacific. However, time has passed this engineering marvel by - many modern supercargo ships are three times the size the canal can safely accommodate, so plans are in motion to widen the structure. The project faces all manner of environmental challenges, as well as leaving the canal closed to…

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  11. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 1 - Turning Torso
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    #11 - Turning Torso

    S2:E1

    The Turning Torso is the world's largest residential structure, rising 190 meters above Malmö, Sweden.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 2 - Venice Flood Gates
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    #12 - Venice Flood Gates

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    Global warming is causing sea levels around the world to rise and environmental experts believe Venice may well go the same way as Atlantis. The new flood gates should prevent the city’s 45km of canals from cannibalising its ancient architecture.

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  13. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 3 - Container Ships
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    #13 - Container Ships

    S2:E3

    Covers the docking of a container ship at Long Beach (California) and the operation of the water front docks, where several thousand containers need to be unloaded and loaded in 48 hours. Also covered is the building of the Adrian Maersk, the world's largest container ship. While the scale of these gigantic ships has to be seen to be believed, the construction must be precise to millimeters.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 4 - Oakland Bay Bridge
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    #14 - Oakland Bay Bridge

    S2:E4

    The New Bay Bridge is the biggest construction project in California history. This two-mile, earthquake-proof road will replace the most heavily trafficked bridge in the country-the span linking San Francisco to Oakland and the East Bay.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 5 - Iceland Tunnels
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    #15 - Iceland Tunnels

    S2:E5

    Around 200 miles northeast of the capital, Reykjavik, engineers are hard at work drilling 72km of tunnels deep in the mountains. Three full-face boring machines have been specially shipped from the US to this remote site, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The tunnel’s purpose is to guide water to the valley floor from reservoirs that are also currently under construction. The cascading water will drive six turbines, each with a rated output of 115 megawatts. With a total capacity of 690 megawatts, it will be the biggest hydropower plant in Europe.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 6 - Off-shore Oil Platforms
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    #16 - Off-shore Oil Platforms

    S2:E6

    Engineers redesign oil platforms to withstand the harsh weather conditions in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 7 - Cooper River Bridge
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    #17 - Cooper River Bridge

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    Connecting the bustling port city of Charleston and Mount Pleasant in South Carolina, the Cooper River Bridge will be the longest cable-stay bridge in America. The structure stands on one of the most seismic spots on the East Coast, it also faces the frequent threat of 300kmph hurricanes.

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  18. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 8 - Millau Viaduct
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    #18 - Millau Viaduct

    S2:E8

    In a remote corner of France, traffic between the south of France and Paris and the north have run into huge bottlenecks. Designers and engineers are working to open the region by building a bridge to leap across the 1.3-mile wide gorge.

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  19. Extreme Engineering Season 2 Episode 9 - Excavators
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    #19 - Excavators

    S2:E9

    In northern Minnesota, the operators of the world's largest open-pit iron mine commission the construction of a $10 million custom-built super-shovel in the hopes of making excavation more efficient.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Extreme Engineering Season 3 Episode 1 - The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform
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    #20 - The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform

    S3:E1

    Europe's first liquefied natural gas plant sits on a floating platform. The platform was transported by ship from southern Spain to the coast of Norway.

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  21. Extreme Engineering Season 3 Episode 2 - The El Cajon Dam
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    #21 - The El Cajon Dam

    S3:E2

    The dam, which is the largest ongoing construction project in Latin America, is designed to rise 186 meters above the Rio Grande de Santiago river in Mexico. Upon completion, it will provide for two percent of the entire country's electricity needs.

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  22. Extreme Engineering Season 3 Episode 3 - Hong Kong's Cable Car
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    #22 - Hong Kong's Cable Car

    S3:E3

    Engineers are building the Ngong Ping 360, the world's longest detachable cable car system, on Hong Kong's mountainous Lantau Island, spanning the South China Sea.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Extreme Engineering Season 3 Episode 4 - Woodrow Wilson Bridge
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    #23 - Woodrow Wilson Bridge

    S3:E4

    The 40-year-old Woodrow Wilson Bridge is being replaced by a new span crossing the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C.

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  24. Extreme Engineering Season 3 Episode 5 - Gotthard Tunnel
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    #24 - Gotthard Tunnel

    S3:E5

    The Gotthard Base Tunnel underneath the Swiss Alps will be the world's longest rail tunnel upon completion in 2015.

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  25. Extreme Engineering Season 3 Episode 6 - Dubai's Ski Resort
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    #25 - Dubai's Ski Resort

    S3:E6

    How do you make your mall stand out? By building one of the world's largest indoor ski resorts--in the deserts of Dubai! Ski Dubai features snow-making machines and slopes ranging in difficulty from easy to "black diamond."

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Tokyo's Sky City" is the worst rated episode of "Extreme Engineering". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/13/2003. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Subways in America".