Phase one finishes at Boaty McBoatface Antarctic wharf

By Will Ing2019-05-30T05:00:00

Bam and Ramboll pause work because winter is coming

Bam has completed the first phase of a new Antarctic wharf designed to berth research vessel RRS David Attenborough – which narrowly avoided the name Boaty McBoatface following a public ballot.

Workers for the Dutch contractor are sailing out of the South Pole having completed demolition of a wharf at Rothera (pictured), a British Antarctic Survey research centre.

Assisted by technical advisor Ramboll, the first phase also saw six of twenty steel frames installed for what will become a new 74-metre wharf with more depth than its predecessor.

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