TV Guide: Build It Bigger

Video: Build It Bigger: Big Thinkers (Really Big)

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:21 -0500

Meet the principal architects of the one of the largest buildings in the world.

Video: Build It Bigger: Easy on the Ears

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:20 -0500

Beautiful interior spaces sometimes make for horrible sound effects. Enter architectural ingenuity!

Video: Build It Bigger: A Steady Hand

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:18 -0500

Welding work on cruise ships requires a steady hand ... or disaster results.

Video: Build It Bigger: Surviving a Tank

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:17 -0500

Sometimes in TV you have to lose in order to win a great shot. Will this camera survive being run over by a tank?

Video: Build It Bigger: Missile Impossible

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:16 -0500

Danny dismantles an IED without blowing himself and everything around him up.

Video: Build It Bigger: Parallel Parking for Warships

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:15 -0500

See what it takes to bring the giant USS Donald Cook into port.

Video: Build It Bigger: Pants Optional

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:13 -0500

See who's behind those roller-coaster cars you bet your life on.

Video: Build It Bigger: See Danny Sweat

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:12 -0500

It's back-breaking work to dig a foundation for a hurricane-proof house under the Mississippi sun.

Video: Build It Bigger: How to Flood a Dry Dock ... on Purpose

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:11 -0500

When muscles, hammers and wrenches fail to open a steel wall holding back the ocean, Danny and his Istanbul colleagues turn to blowtorches.

Video: Build It Bigger: The Man Basket

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:09 -0500

Danny goes up in a man-basket to get a birds-eye view of what will be the biggest hotel complex in Vegas.

Video: Build It Bigger: 95 MPH and Counting

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:08 -0500

When it comes to skimming across the Florida seas, Crockett and Tubbs have nothing on Mr. Danny Forster.

Video: Build It Bigger: No Ifs, Ands or Butts

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:07 -0500

Thirty-thousand seats. Eight months. How comfortable will Nationals fans be this spring?

Video: Build It Bigger: City of Culture

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:05 -0500

Arial-view animation of the City of Culture in Spain.

Video: Build it Bigger: Shanghai World Financial Center (Part 2)

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:04 -0500

In order to get the building's sixth module on its feet, four teams had to work on the structural elements that frame each module. Team One built the megacolumns that bear the load at the outer edge of the building. Team Two built the elevator core,

Video: Build It Bigger: Shanghai World Financial Center (Part 1)

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:03 -0500

n order to get the building's sixth module on its feet, four teams had to work on the structural elements that frame each module. Team One built the megacolumns that bear the load at the outer edge of the building. Team Two built the elevator core, t

Video: Build It Bigger: M1 Abrams Tank

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:01 -0500

The 70-ton M1 Abrams main battle tank is the tip of the U.S. Army's spear of destruction.

Video: Build It Bigger: Hurricane-Proof Homes 3

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:32:00 -0500

To avoid storm surges, the houses must be off the ground, supported by 18 massive 10x10 posts buried 4 feet in concrete. A concrete slab at the bottom and 10x4 beams on top provide further rigidity.

Video: Build It Bigger: Hurricane-Proof House 2

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:31:59 -0500

The two halves of the house's interior walls -- the bedroom side and the kitchen side -- are fused together, forming a unified, rigid sheer wall that will reduce any twisting in high winds.

Video: Build It Bigger: Hurricane-Proof House 1

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:31:57 -0500

Each hurricane-proof house is made in three sections -- kitchen, bedroom and roof -- and constructed on an assembly line, rolling through 15 stations.

Video: Build It Bigger: Istanbul Animation 2

Discovery Channel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:31:56 -0500

The Tuzla Shipyard cranks out up to four 18,000-ton elements every year. First, the bottom half of the element is erected and the concrete cast. Then it's moved to the second station where the top half is poured. Finally, it's towed out to the ...

Photo: Build It Bigger - Bath Iron Works shipyard along the Penobscot River in Maine