Reaching for the stars - Cranes Today
Two 80t Kobelco CKE800G crawler cranes, on hire from Q Crane & Plant Hire, were used for the construction of the new £20.5m First Light cultural centre at the UK’s Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire. The First Light Pavilion, the project’s centrepiece, will house an exhibition gallery, education areas, projection space, and café. The Pavilion’s dome construction required 381m3 of concrete, poured into a mould spanning 50m to create the single-structure roof. The continuous concrete pour–the first of its kind in over 25 years, according to Ryan Southern, project manager...