{"id":31383,"date":"2025-07-17T08:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worlds-largest-crane-lifts-hinkley-dome-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:13:43","slug":"worlds-largest-crane-lifts-hinkley-dome-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worlds-largest-crane-lifts-hinkley-dome-video\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest crane lifts Hinkley dome: Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-499773\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u201cBig Carl\u201d lifted the 14-metre-tall dome to close the 44-metre-high reactor building, allowing its fit-out to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>The second unit is taking up to 30% less time to build thanks to the lessons learned from construction of the first phase.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unit 2 Dome Lift | Hinkley Point C\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cMLWFIwXnyU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Unit 2\u2019s civil construction, 30% fewer people achieved 40% more work than on Unit 1 with prefabrication of structures now approaching 60%<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Crooks, CEO of Hinkley Point C, said: \u201cThe second of our two identical units shows the big benefits of repeating an identical design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuild and Repeat is the best way to build new nuclear with time savings already at 20-30%. All \u00a0our experience and innovation will benefit Sizewell C from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/07\/17\/worlds-largest-crane-lifts-hinkley-dome-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u201cBig Carl\u201d lifted the 14-metre-tall dome to close the 44-metre-high reactor building, allowing its fit-out to accelerate. The second &#8230; <a title=\"World\u2019s largest crane lifts Hinkley dome: Video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worlds-largest-crane-lifts-hinkley-dome-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World\u2019s largest crane lifts Hinkley dome: Video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}