1. Danny is a great host. A degree in architecture is a commitment greater than a juris doctorate, (Lawers- for all y'all bibliophobes) and akin to medicine, maybe better, due to the fact architects ensure the design of safe buildings, preventing injury.
2. An M-Arch is one of the most rounded educations one can pursue.
3. Construction sites require commitments from all kinds of people, not just comic book type stereotypes.

Architects make the building look pretty

Engineers are the ones who design the building to be safe

And I will add that neither of those two occupations could design anything for any site without the land survey crews going out and taking good accurate data and compiling it for the site to even work at all. Think am blowing my own horn, since I have been a surveyor for over 20 years, and I have not only seen, but feild fixed a number of mistakes coming from plans by engineers and architects. And please, do not have an architect try to act as a civil engineer designing things for the sites, because they usually turn out not practical or user friendly.

I agree, danny is a perfect host for the show. A Masters is impressive, all i got is a BA in Architecture.

Its not what you know, its who you are. The wimp has to go

I do not think that anyone would argue with Danny's credentials. However, he is not participating in what he was trained for. He is trying to blend in with the construction workers who come into the job after the architects, engineers and surveyors have completed the designs and planes for the building. Danny did not get an education in being steady, not acting like a 14 year old school girls (At times) and being comfortable around machinery, hieghts and industrial clamour. If he does not leace the show perhaps he should team up with some Foughneck and give the viewers the science ebhind the work. That would suit him well.

Good grief, Organ -- what's it to you that you have to post the same opinion on over a half-dozen threads? The producer (who's posted elsewhere here) didn't want a cookie-cutter copy of other construction shows. The fact that Danny is a bit of a fish out of water is entirely intentional. It opens the show up to folks who are interested in more than just the brute size and power involved in construction projects. If having someone like Danny brings more women and kids into the audience than the average construction show, it may be worth losing a fraction of those shows' audience.

Danny's got a bit of an off-beat sense of humor. When he turns a wrench a couple times and later points and says "I built that" it's not because he actually thinks that. It's his way of pointing out just how much work actually went into it, underlining the raw numbers (e.g. "1 million bolts hold this structure together" -- and he tightened two of them). Some folks are mighty irritated by this sort of humor (half of them have already posted here, I think). To a lot of others his humor adds a bit of whimsy to the show, and elevates it above the dry documentary style of other construction programs.