Build It Bigger Season 2, Ep. 9 "Hurricane-Proof Homes"

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Danny Forster explores the construction of heavy duty modular homes and their journey from factory to final site.
  • Runtime: 42 minutes
  • Original air date: August 28, 2007
  • Network: Science Channel
 
  
 
 

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1. Super Fast Warship
  August 7, 2007
Go on board to see the construction of a U.S. Navy destroyer with host Danny Forster. He will be put to work around the ship through its war games, getting a behind the scenes look at how this high tech ship works.
 
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2. Fault Zone Tunnel
  August 14, 2007
Go inside one of the most difficult and dangerous tunneling projects in the world with Danny Forster. Outside Los Angeles, Danny goes alongside minders who attempt to dig two huge tunnels that will supply fresh water to Southern California.
 
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3. Boot Camp
  August 13, 2007
Danny Forster's been on job sites all over the world, but to really learn how to operate construction equipment, Danny's going to get a crash course in everything from heavy equipment operation to getting lunch for the foreman.
 
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4. World's Tallest Skyscraper
  July 24, 2007
Danny Forster climbs into the frame of the Shanghai World Financial Center, the tallest building in the world at its completion, venturing inside construction of this massive skyscraper.
 
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5. Battle Machines
  July 17, 2007
Host Danny Forster heads to Anniston Army Dept to re-assemble an Abrams tank. Along the way, he helps build components of this fighting machine. After rolling off the assembly line, Danny tests the tank on the firing range.
 
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6. Coaster Build-Off
  July 10, 2007
Danny Forster launches headlong into scream engineering --- building, designing and riding some of the greatest roller coasters on the planet. Danny works with two construction teams who create every exacting detail to make the ride both scary and safe.
 
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7. Mountain of Steel
  June 26, 2007
Danny Forester heads to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to get an up close and personal view of the City of Culture. This ambitious project houses libraries, performance spaces, and museums in six completely unique structures.
 
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8. Floating City
  September 5, 2007
Danny Forster ventures from Finland to Florida to see how the world's biggest cruise ships are created and then sail. Danny follows the construction of one of the 11-story floating cities and then boards a working sister ship for a behind the scenes look.
 
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9. Hurricane-Proof Homes
  August 28, 2007
Danny Forster explores the construction of heavy duty modular homes and their journey from factory to final site.
 
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10. Biggest Casino
  September 12, 2007
Danny Forster participates in the construction of the Palazzo, Las Vegas' latest and greatest high-end hotel and casino.
 
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11. Deepest Tunnel
  October 10, 2007
Danny goes back to the future in Istanbul, Turkey, to find out how to tunnel through water-- and history. The city is now home to one of the most daring engineering projects on the planet that is soon to be the third largest in the world.
 
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12. High Risk Tower
  September 19, 2007
Host Danny Forester goes inside the building of Trump's Tower in Chicago, not your ordinary super-skyscraper. This one is made entirely of reinforced concrete, making it the tallest formwork structure on the planet.
 
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13. Turbo-Charged Boat
  September 26, 2007
Danny travels down to Florida to participate in the rebuilding and practive test of an offshore racing boat.
 
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Episode 9, "Hurricane-Proof Homes"
Synopsis: Danny Forster explores the construction of heavy duty modular homes and their journey from factory to final site.
Original air date: August 28, 2007
Runtime: 42 minutes
ASIN: B0029NAPEW
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,450 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Build It Bigger Season 2
Synopsis: Each episode of Build it Bigger travels to a different location to drop host Danny Forster onto the gargantuan work site of an ongoing mega-project. He'll find the most dangerous, spectacular, difficult, and ingeniously executed parts of the job. Danny talks with everybody from the suits to the hard hats; pressing, probing, looking for the cracks, and swinging a sledge when they let him (and sometimes when they won't).
Season year: 2007
Network: Science Channel
ASIN: B002834LR0
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