NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Turning Torso
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2004
The Turning Torso is the world's largest residential structure, rising 190 meters above Malmö, Sweden.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Venice Flood Gates
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2004
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Container Ships
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2004
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Oakland Bay Bridge
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2004
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Iceland Tunnels
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/1/2004
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Off-shore Oil Platforms
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/2004
Engineers redesign oil platforms to withstand the harsh weather conditions in the Gulf of Mexico.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Cooper River Bridge
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/5/2004
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Millau Viaduct
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2004
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Excavators
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/2004
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - The Snohvit Arctic Gas Processing Platform
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/19/2005
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - The El Cajon Dam
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2005
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Hong Kong's Cable Car
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/2005
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Woodrow Wilson Bridge
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/9/2005
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Gotthard Tunnel
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2006
The Gotthard Base Tunnel underneath the Swiss Alps will be the world's longest rail tunnel upon completion in 2015.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Dubai's Ski Resort
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/21/2006
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Coaster Build Off
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2007
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#17 - Battle Machines
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2007
Danny Forster heads to Anniston Army Depot to re-assemble an Abrams tank. He also helps build components of this fighting machine and tests it on the firing range.
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#18 - World's Tallest Skyscraper
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2007
Host Danny Forster climbs into the frame of the Shanghai World Financial Centre. At its completion, it will be the tallest building in the world.
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#19 - Super Fast Warship
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 8/7/2007
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#21 - Fault Zone Tunnel
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2007
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#22 - Hurricane-Proof Homes
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 8/28/2007
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#23 - Floating City
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 9/4/2007
MS Independence of the Seas
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#24 - Biggest Casino
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 9/11/2007
Construction of hotel casino The Palazzo in Las Vegas
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#25 - High Risk Tower
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 9/18/2007
Building a Trump's Tower in Chicago
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The Worst Episodes of Extreme Engineering
Every episode of Extreme Engineering ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Extreme Engineering!
Extreme Engineering covers major construction projects from all around the world. Some are futuristic projects that may never be done, others are projects that are...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Turning Torso" is the worst rated episode of "Extreme Engineering". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/7/2004. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Venice Flood Gates".