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A steer in the right direction

13 Mar 2020

It sits on was too big to remove through the narrow the western side of Torbay passageway between the entrance and the above Brixham, marking lantern, and the pedestal contained an unknown the Torbay Deep Water quantity of mercury that used to act as a gas seal Anchorage and also acts when the light was acetylene-fuelled. [...] This presented the project team, in particular The design of the electrical system was based Berry Head Lighthouse 12 “THE INSTALLATION WAS COMPLETED ON SCHEDULE AND WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT ISSUES” on the approach agreed at the Engineering Standards months and the team got approval, subject to an The renovations saw the meeting. [...] The investigation The first major task, led by the had assessed whether it was possible to University of Exeter, was to obtain the understand the structural behaviour of the structural characteristics of each of lighthouse in response to wave impacts on the towers. [...] The latter University of Plymouth’s COAST simulated all the individual granite Laboratory has provided the perfect blocks with their vertical connections venue for the experiments, which and demonstrated the importance of started with simplistic representations the vertical keys in preventing sliding of the lighthouses as a cylinder on top failure of the lighthouses. [...] Once the dismantled sections of the lighthouse During the spring of 2020, Trinity are brought ashore, contractors will ensure that House will invite contractors every element of the structure reaches approved to submit proposals for the waste streams as part of the scheme’s waste removal of the accommodation management approach.
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