The WORST episodes of Build it Bigger

Every episode of Build it Bigger ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Build it Bigger!

Architect Danny Forster takes you inside some of the most head-scratching builds in the world. Join Danny as he meets the men and women tackling the unique challenges of constructing the tallest buildings, the most effective military tanks, the largest luxury cruise ships, and the most extreme thrill rides. How do you build a 3,113-foot-long wooden roller coaster in winter temperatures of minus 40 degrees? Or get your workers safely to and from a worksite on a skyscraper that's 1,614 feet above street level? Or dig a water tunnel - along the San Adreas Fault and 1,000 feet below the earth's surface - without it collapsing on itself ... or flooding? Our intrepid host answers these puzzles and more. Don't miss the big stories behind these even bigger engineering marvels.

Last Updated: 10/2/2026Network: DiscoveryStatus: Ended
Melbourne Stadium
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#1 - Melbourne Stadium

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/20/2010

The Victorian government has invested nearly $270 million to create one of the most innovative stadiums ever built — the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium. Melbourne wanted their new stadium to be the crown jewel of their sports district — an icon for the entire city — so they've commissioned the most structurally innovative arena in the southern hemisphere. The stadium will be a living, breathing work of art on the outside, and the ultimate athlete and spectator experience on the inside.

Floating City
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#2 - Floating City

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/4/2007

Danny travels to Florida to discover how some of the worlds biggest cruise ships are made, and finds himself in Finland helping with the construction process.

Biggest Casino
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#3 - Biggest Casino

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2007

Danny travels to Las Vegas, NV to the construction site of Palazzo, the newest hotel and casino to hit the strip.

High-Risk Tower
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#4 - High-Risk Tower

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/2007

Danny travel to Chicago to help build Donald Trump\'s new tower. Danny will help build the 30th floor of this skyscraper.

Dallas Cowboys Stadium
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#5 - Dallas Cowboys Stadium

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/2009

Behold the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. 3 million square feet. 73 acres. Costing over $1.1 billion dollars. Room for 100,000 fans. Join host Danny Forster as we explore the largest football stadium ever constructed in the United States.

City Center Las Vegas
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#6 - City Center Las Vegas

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/21/2009

Panama Canal
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#7 - Panama Canal

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/18/2009

Once the largest and most expensive engineering project the world had ever seen, the Panama Canal is in danger of becoming obsolete. Join host Danny Forster as he explores the new, $5.25 Billion expansion project.

Mountain of Steel
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#8 - Mountain of Steel

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/3/2007

Danny heads to Galicia, Spain, to help build the half billion dollar cultural center on a hill that overlooks a medieval city. He helps build six different buildings in the complex.

Deepest Tunnel
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#9 - Deepest Tunnel

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/10/2007

Danny travels to Istanbul, Turkey, to help with a tunnel under water.

Major League Stadium
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#10 - Major League Stadium

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/17/2007

In Washington, DC, 800 workers attempt to design and build a $650 million baseball stadium in less than two years. Danny finds out if they can finish the 41,000-seat Nationals stadium and helps complete the largest scoreboard in the US.

NASA
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#11 - NASA

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2009

Host Danny Forster visits NASA for an unprecedented look behind the scenes as they transition from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation Program. We'll help build the rocket that's taking American space exploration into the future: the Ares

Building a Better New Orleans
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#12 - Building a Better New Orleans

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/2010

Five years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is reinventing hurricane protection, with the largest public works project in U.S. history. The centerpiece of the project — a massive 2-mile long, 26-foot high storm surge barrier — is designed to defend against the fiercest storms on earth. Brad Pitt's Make it Right foundation is also pitching in to help rebuild, constructing 150 of the most hurricane resistant homes in the world, in New Orleans' most devastated neighborhood. But with hurricane season looming, engineers have just 18 months to protect the Big Easy before the next hurricane hits.

Fault Zone Tunnel
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#13 - Fault Zone Tunnel

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2007

Danny goes to Southern California to assist in the drilling of water supply tunnels. He goes 1000 feet under a mountain range to help with the construction.

Abu Dhabi Central Market
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#14 - Abu Dhabi Central Market

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/10/2010

Abu Dhabi City is building, and building BIG. They're hard at work on an incredible $300 billion plan to grow as quickly as possible. But they want to do it while protecting the city's culture, heritage, and natural environment. The centerpiece of this plan towers over the heart of the city: Aldar's appropriately-named Central Market. A 12-acre urban oasis filling 4 blocks, Central Market is a self-sustainable community for the modern ages, designed with a uniquely Arab point of view. Centered around the tallest residential tower on Earth, Central Market will be the first facility in the world that will take care of every spiritual, material, and relaxation need a person could have. It will also feature one of the world's tallest office towers, entertainment facilities for all ages, sky-high playgrounds for children, high-end shops, Edenesque gardens, hotels, as well as a reinvention of a traditional Arabian Souq — complete with a large mosque and vast outdoor market space filled with traditional Arabian goods.

Port of Rotterdam
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#15 - Port of Rotterdam

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/17/2010

The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is the largest in the entire Western Hemisphere. Located less than 24 hours by road or rail from every EU capitol, it has for decades been the heartbeat of the European Union, and a cornerstone of the entire world's economy. But now, that cornerstone is in danger of collapse. With 90% of products today shipped by container, Rotterdam's container terminals are nearing capacity, threatening to become a trade bottleneck that could cripple a continent already devastated by recession. To make sure this doesn't happen, the Port of Rotterdam has launched the Maasvlakte 2 Project — an ambitious $4 billion plan to triple the port's container capacity by 2013. But in a country with literally nowhere else to build, that means undertaking the biggest land reclamation project in history, turning 8 square miles of the stormy North Sea into Europe's new gateway to the world. And it's much more than just earth-moving. To keep the port running 24-7, they're building 3 new power plants, and to house the army of workers servicing Europe's largest construction project, they are building the biggest hotel in the Netherlands — entirely from recycled shipping containers. To plan for the future, everything at the Maasvlakte 2 will be super-sized to accommodate the mammoth container ships of the future. Upon completion, it will be the most valuable port facility ever, providing the largest ships in the world direct connection to Europe's industrial heartland. Build it Bigger has unprecedented access to all aspects of this amazing project, as engineers literally reshape the Dutch coast, all while keeping one of the world's busiest ports up and running.

London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium
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#16 - London's Olympic Aquatic Stadium

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/29/2011

The London Aquatics Centre will host 44 swimming & diving events during the 2012 Olympics and live on as a new addition to the London landscape. Danny Forster goes with crews as they construct one of the most advanced swimming facilities ever built.

Drought-Proofing Australia
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#17 - Drought-Proofing Australia

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/2011

After 13 years of record-breaking droughts Melbourne looks to secure its future with a $3.5 billion desalination plant that will turn saltwater into freshwater. Danny joins crews as they build two undersea tunnels, 29 buildings and 52 miles of pipeline

Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation
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#18 - Azerbaijan's Amazing Transformation

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/2011

After decades of Soviet occupation, Azerbaijan is reinventing itself. With a $6 billion a year renovation and over 500 new developments, Danny Forster goes behind the scenes of Baku's construction projects: the Flame Towers and Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center.

Constructing Serbia's Largest Bridge
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#19 - Constructing Serbia's Largest Bridge

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/2011

Danny Forster joins crews as they construct Serbia's newest national icon. The Sava River Bridge in Belgrade will be the world's largest single pylon cable stayed bridge and improve a critical freight corridor connecting central Europe to the East.

Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City
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#20 - Amsterdam's Futuristic Floating City

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/25/2011

The Netherlands is running out of land. Nearly 70% of its land, which comprises half its population lies beneath sea level. Rather than fight back the sea, engineers are radically making it an ally, using it to create real estate where none exists.

Building Mumbai's Modern Airport
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#21 - Building Mumbai's Modern Airport

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/2/2011

The $2 billion Mumbai Airport Expansion project is one of India's most ambitious undertakings ever. If they succeed, it could completely change the way airports are designed.

Turkey's Mammoth Hydropower Dam
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#22 - Turkey's Mammoth Hydropower Dam

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/9/2011

Crews are now carving out the Turkey's largest construction site in the country's most challenging terrain by building one of the tallest and strongest dams ever made.

Navy Amphibious Warship
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#23 - Navy Amphibious Warship

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/2009

The LPD17 is a new class of amphibious assault ship for the US Navy that can launch over 700 Marines and equipment on helicopters and hovercrafts. Join host Danny Forster as we explore the innovative 700-foot long and 25,000-ton stealth vessel.

Boot Camp
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#24 - Boot Camp

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/14/2007

In this episode Danny goes to construction boot camp.

Super Fast Warship
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#25 - Super Fast Warship

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/7/2007

Danny travels to the Bath Iron Works in Maine to assist in the construction of a modern warship. He takes a behind the scenes look at how they add the finishing touches.