Sujet
Heathrow Airport, BEA Servicing Hangar, Heathrow, Hillingdon, London, 07/09/1970. Creator: John Laing plc.
Légende
Heathrow Airport, BEA Servicing Hangar, Heathrow, Hillingdon, London, 07/09/1970. Looking over the steel roof of the BEA aircraft servicing hangar at Heathrow Airport during its construction, showing lattice girders and cross-bracing. In October 1969 Laing announced that its Industrial Engineering Branch had been awarded a contract for construction of an aircraft servicing hangar for British European Airways at Heathrow Airport. It was the company’s second major contract at Heathrow, following the completion of the BEA and BOAC cargo terminal. The hangar was designed to accommodate new airbus jets and existing aircraft. The hangar roof consisted of lattice girders and steel cross-bracing, with deep edge girders. It was constructed on the ground and was raised 20.5m by hydraulic jacks over 8 days in November 1970. The 3,200 tonnes of steel and services which formed the roof were then rested upon octagonal columns, the bases of which were sunk into 75ft shafts. Braithwaite engineers manufactured the steelwork for the columns and roof.
Date
1970
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Notre référence
HRM22A00_161
Model release
Non
Property release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
78,4Mo (3,6Mo) / 44,1cm x 44,6cm / 5208 x 5264 (300dpi)