Extreme Engineering - Season 6 (2007)

In this episode of Extreme Engineering, We look at the construction of The Shanghai World Financial Center, soon to be the world's tallest building standing at over sixteen hundred feet in height. Constructed as a series of twelve stories modules, we will observe a crew of almost two thousand, working simultaneously on twelve floors, from installing the mega columns, to hanging-in a half tone pane of glass six hundred feet above Shanghai, raising the sixth module over a two weeks period. As they are faced with many challenges including typhoon Utor!

In this episode of Extreme Engineering, We are heading to Fort Knox, Kentucky Armor Center Tankers and Training Firing Range to look at the most powerful tank in the United States Army's seventy tones M1- Abraham main battle tank, valued at five million dollars a piece! With fifteen hundred-horse power turbine engines, its one hundred and twenty millimeter gun so accurate, it can hit a target almost two miles away; it is one of the most feared of its kind. We will follow a one million dollars restoration for one of them.

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The Marmaray Tunnel is a 13,5 km (8,4 mi) long undersea railway tunnel in Istanbul, beneath the Bosporus strait, linking Europe with Asia. Tunnel consists of two single track tunnels and was opened to passenger traffic on 29 October 2013.

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