Five years later...
20 Jul 2015
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±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Communication
Five years ago, on Wednesday 4 August 2010, a lone power shovel began removing the first cubic metres of rock and top soil from the northern side of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ platform. In six months, some 230,000 cubic metres of material were excavated for the Tokamak Complex.
In five years, the moonlike landscape of 2010 has turned into a bustling environment of tall cranes, concrete and rebar, and steel columns rising as high as a 15-storey building.¶
In parallel, 250 metres away, bulldozers and scrapers were levelling the ground at the site of a large winding facility for some of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's largest magnets. After creating a smooth "sub-base," the concrete floor slab was poured and, within 18 months, a 257-metre-long steel structure erected.
Since then, the anti-seismic foundations of the Tokamak Complex have been set into place, drainage and precipitation networks finalized, a 400 kV electrical substation installed, and progress made on the Assembly Building—the 60-metre-high edifice that will host the pre-assembly operations for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ machine components.
In five years, the moonlike landscape of 2010 has turned into a bustling environment of tall cranes, concrete and rebar, and steel columns rising as high as a 15-storey building.
The number of workers on the construction site will increase from 400 to 1,000 by the end of the year as the pace of construction accelerates and a number of ancillary buildings begin to rise. More than EUR 4 billion worth of contracts signed for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ construction are acquiring a tangible shape on the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ platform... (See the slideshows in this issue.)
As Newsline closes for its traditional summer recess, work inside of the offices and on the platform will continue at a determined pace, providing us with plenty of stories to report.
We'll be back in late August with our next issue!