{"id":52217,"date":"2019-02-07T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=52217"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:05:57","slug":"construction-wharf-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-wharf-underway\/52217\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction for the Antarctic Wharf is well underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Operated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/\">British Antarctic Survey<\/a> (BAS), the Wharf will provide safe docking and effective procedures for the new 129-metre long Polar Research Vessel, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/polar-operations\/sites-and-facilities\/facility\/rrs-sir-david-attenborough\/deck-plans-rrs-sir-david-attenborough\/\">RRS Sir David Attenborough<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Construction of a new 74-metre long wharf gets underway at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/data\/our-data\/images\/webcams\/rothera-webcam\/\">Rothera Research Station<\/a> in the Antarctic. Construction of the new wharf is to take place over two Antarctic seasons and is due for completion in April 2020.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52226\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf01-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"the wharf\" width=\"329\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf01-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf01-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf01-696x409.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf01-715x420.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf01.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAM Wharf01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The commissioning of the RRS\u00a0Sir David Attenborough\u00a0is part of a major government polar infrastructure investment programme designed to keep Britain at the forefront of world-leading research in Antarctica and the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>This \u00a3200m commitment\u00a0represents the UK\u00a0government\u2019s largest investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/british-antarctic-survey-seeks-construction-partner\/23791\/\">polar science<\/a> since the 1980s. It includes a raft of modernisation across the BAS estate. Supporting BAS is a <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ramboll.com\/news\/ruk\/british-antarctic-survey-appoints-ramboll\">Technical Advisor team<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/ramboll-expand\/50678\/\">Ramboll<\/a>, which includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnerandtownsend.com\/\">Turner &amp; Townsend<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/norr.com\/\">NORR Architects<\/a>, working alongside BAS\u2019s construction partners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bam.co.uk\/\">BAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meticulous preparations for the wharf construction have been underway for two years, culminating in the arrival of the cargo ship DS Wisconsin in Rothera in late December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Loaded with 4,500 tonnes of steel and equipment, the ship took a full 11 days and nights of round the clock work to unload, marking the beginning of this major construction operation in the Antarctic. Deconstruction of the old wharf is now underway.<\/p>\n<p>Two 35 tonne excavators, operated by BAM, broke through the surface of the old \u2018Biscoe\u2019 wharf in mid-January and two 90 tonne long reach machines are in place for the deep excavation and dismantling works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/profile\/davato\/\">David Seaton<\/a>\u00a0at BAS said: \u201cConstruction work in Antarctica is like nothing else, and it has taken a vast amount of planning, practising and preparation to get us this far.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52227\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf02-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"the wharf\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf02-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf02-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf02-696x468.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf02-625x420.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BAM-Wharf02.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAM Wharf02<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The next few weeks will be critical to the success of the project and we hope to make good progress whilst we have long hours of daylight and relatively favourable weather conditions, knowing that in a few months when winter approaches, things are likely to get a lot more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BAM project manager, Martha McGowan said: \u201cWe are really pleased to have begun this exciting and important work on the wharf that will berth the world\u2019s most famous research ship \u2013 the RRS\u00a0Sir David Attenborough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the practical restrictions of working in one of the most remote construction sites in the world, the construction team practised full-scale assembly of the 30 tonne steel rigs, that will form the skeleton of the new wharf, prior to leaving for Rothera.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In doing this, we were able to identify unexpected challenges or additional pieces of equipment needed whilst still in the UK, rather than once everything had been shipped 11,000km to Rothera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Symons at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ramboll.com\/\">Ramboll<\/a>\u00a0added: \u201cI have really loved being in Rothera, it\u2019s a remarkable place. The team spirit is great, and it\u2019s been a pleasure to be part of that and supporting BAS in the construction of the wharf.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operated by British Antarctic Survey, the Wharf will provide safe docking and effective procedures for the new 129-metre long Polar Research Vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[13038,594,676,276,579],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building","8":"tag-building-design","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-infrastructure"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction for the Antarctic Wharf is well underway<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Operated by British Antarctic Survey, the Wharf will provide safe docking and effective procedures for the new 129-metre long Polar Research Vessel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-wharf-underway\/52217\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction for the Wharf is well underway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operated by British Antarctic Survey, the Wharf will provide safe docking and effective procedures for the new 129-metre long Polar Research Vessel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-wharf-underway\/52217\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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