{"id":99,"date":"2013-12-24T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T09:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2013-12-24T09:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T09:32:58","slug":"containers-in-the-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/containers-in-the-antarctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Containers in the Antarctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research facility in the Antarctic has been built using a staggering 134 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\">shipping containers<\/a>. The Bharathi polar station was built by German architects bof Architekten on behalf of India&#8217;s National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\">containers<\/a> were used to allow for mobility so that the station could be shipped in. Architect Bert Bucking explains;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We built all these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\">containers<\/a>\u00a0with a maximum load of four and a half tonnes, because then we are able to transport them even with a helicopter.&#8221; It turned out that most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\">containers<\/a> could be transferred directly from ship to ice, but the crane needed a base, weighing around 40 tonnes, which had to be built.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a real risk that the ice would break, and if the ice breaks and the crane goes down, we can&#8217;t get it back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The project was finished in March 2013, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpsil.co.uk\">shipping containers<\/a> connected with steel joints and two meters off the ground to avoid it being buried in a snowdrift. Up to 47 researchers can be based there completely self-sufficiently.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/12\/start\/a-research-station-built-out-of-boxes\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research facility in the Antarctic has been built using a staggering 134 shipping containers. 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