The 1 season of Extreme Engineering was broadcast on from dimanche 13 avril 2003 to mercredi 4 juin 2003. It consists of 10 episodes, the first one is called "Tokyo's Sky City" and the last one "Widening the Panama Canal".
Each episode of Extreme Engineering discussed some major construction project, some of them are projects that have already been completed like Hong Kong's airport. Others talked abount projects that are currently under construction like Tuneling Under the Alps. And some episodes talked about more futuristic projects that may never be done like the Transatlantic Tunnel. Most episodes finished by examining some sort of disaster scenario which could threaten or ruin the project that was being examined.