{"id":82446,"date":"2020-09-15T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=82446"},"modified":"2020-09-15T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:35:00","slug":"major-milestone-hinkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/major-milestone-hinkley\/82446\/","title":{"rendered":"Major lift milestone for Hinkley Point C\u2019s second reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Construction of the second reactor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edfenergy.com\/energy\/nuclear-new-build-projects\/hinkley-point-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hinkley Point C<\/a> passed a major milestone with the lifting of the first part of the massive steel containment liner<\/h2>\n<p>Lifted by the world\u2019s largest crane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/big-carls-first-big-lift\/69471\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Carl<\/a>, just nine months after the same lift for the first reactor, construction of the 170-tonne \u201cliner cup\u201d was 30% quicker than the identical part on Unit 1.<\/p>\n<p>The liner cup is the base for the reactor\u2019s steel containment which is being prefabricated in five parts and lifted into place by Big Carl.<\/p>\n<p>This innovation means welding can take place in covered bunkers protected from weather, helping to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tunnelling-hinkley-point\/63524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improve quality and efficiency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The liner cup for Hinkley Point C\u2019s second unit was built in 39 days versus 57 for the first.<\/p>\n<p>The construction and lift were completed on schedule, despite workers having to adapt to Coronavirus working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The cup is one of more than 500 prefabricated steel and concrete elements that Big Carl will lift, including whole sections of buildings, walls and pre-cast air ducts. The heaviest items weigh in at 1,600 tonnes.<\/p>\n<h3>A tribute to the workforce<\/h3>\n<p>Nigel Cann, Hinkley Point C construction delivery director, said: \u201cThis milestone shows how replication and innovation are driving efficiency at Hinkley Point C as we build our second identical reactor on site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn turn that will benefit our planned third and fourth units at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/sizewell-c-planning-application\/78234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sizewell C in Suffolk<\/a>. Hitting the schedule during Coronavirus is a tribute to the workforce that has had to adapt to new ways of working to ensure the safety of the site and the community around it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the second reactor at Hinkley Point C passed a major milestone with the lifting of the first part of the massive steel containment liner.<\/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":[676,997,430,673,636,627,32292,26264],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-engineering","12":"tag-modular-construction","13":"tag-steel","14":"tag-steel-frame-construction"},"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>Major lift milestone for Hinkley Point C\u2019s second reactor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Construction of the second reactor at Hinkley Point C passed a major milestone with the lifting of the first part of the massive steel containment liner\" \/>\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\/major-milestone-hinkley\/82446\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Major lift milestone for Hinkley Point C\u2019s second reactor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Construction of the second reactor at Hinkley Point C passed a major milestone with the lifting of the first part of the massive steel containment liner\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/major-milestone-hinkley\/82446\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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