Demolition and Salvage Ltd were hired to do the high reach work for the demolition of one of the oldest, giant satellite dishes at the Satellite Earth Station at BT's Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall.
Antenna 2, the second dish to be built in 1968, has reached the end of its operational life. The dismantling of this 960 tonne landmark will take three months and will make way for faster, more advanced fibre-optic transfer equipment.
Parts of the antenna, such as the transmitters have been recovered for use by some of the other 60 dishes at the station. A 10-tonne, 10 metre long screw, which was used to elevate the dish will be recovered and put on display outside the Goonhilly visitors centre.
John,
ReplyDeleteCould you please change your news page and web site to read that you hired your high reach excavtor to Southern Demolition Co. Ltd. of Byfleet Surrey who were the principal contractor for the works. Your news page reads as if you carried out all the works!
Thanks
Paul Hunt
Contracts Director
www.southerndemolition.co.uk
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