Does the UK have capacity to build like this again?
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I was actually looking around, on Google Earth, for a possible, non weegiefied, spot for some late summer congering and fell into a combination of wiki and flicker for a couple of hours.
Got me thinking, could the UK, today, do this again?
Teasers....the largest project involved the excavation of a huge dry dock, in which the 600,000 tonne Ninian Central Platform was built in 1978. Material was supplied by sea and when complete the platform needed seven tugs to tow it to its operating position in the North Sea. The Ninian Central Platform still holds the record as the largest movable object ever created by man...
...this lay at the end of a 2-mile (3 km) stretch of road built to provide access in just 12 days, and by 1977 over 3,000 people were working here, housed in temporary accommodation on site on site and in two accommodation ships ....
http://www.kishornport.co.uk/about/history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Kishorn
Picture stream on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/33920174@N08/48021891...
Got me thinking, could the UK, today, do this again?
Teasers....the largest project involved the excavation of a huge dry dock, in which the 600,000 tonne Ninian Central Platform was built in 1978. Material was supplied by sea and when complete the platform needed seven tugs to tow it to its operating position in the North Sea. The Ninian Central Platform still holds the record as the largest movable object ever created by man...
...this lay at the end of a 2-mile (3 km) stretch of road built to provide access in just 12 days, and by 1977 over 3,000 people were working here, housed in temporary accommodation on site on site and in two accommodation ships ....
http://www.kishornport.co.uk/about/history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Kishorn
Picture stream on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/33920174@N08/48021891...
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