| CASE STUDY | CE REF: 214BN212-296 | COMPANY:
Corus Panels and Profiles
PROJECT:
Helping university see stars | 
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| Helping university see stars | | Case Study | | | | In what perhaps is the most innovative application for one of their roof Decking systems, a Corus Panels and Profiles D35A profile has been used in the construction of a building housing a unique powerful telescope – located on top of a mountain in Hawaii. | | | 
| | | THE MAUI TELESCOPE UTILISING CORUS PANELS AND PROFILES ROOF DECKING SYSTEM.
PICTURE COURTESY OF THE FAULKES CORPORATION. | | | For the roof area of the building, which opens to allow the telescope to operate, a Corus Panels and Profiles D35A 0.9mm thick profiled decking in Goosewing Grey, with a Plastisol coating on the underside was specified.
Kershaw Roofing, working under a project team from the National Space Centre, fixed a plywood base to the decking and then attached an FDT single ply membrane to waterproof the whole area. The project took four weeks to complete.
The concept for the telescope originated at Liverpool University. Like many educational and scientific establishments, Liverpool had to ‘hire hours' on telescopes around the world in order that their students and researchers could study the solar system.
Such was the demand to view into space that the waiting time ran into many months. Liverpool University decided to invent their own and developed a 2 metre mirror which was as powerful as any ‘scope in the world and even rivalled the famous Hubble telescope for power and performance.
So impressive was the result, that the University established a business – Telescope Technologies - to build and site telescopes around the world for commercial gain – the Faulkes Corporation being their first customer.
The housing for the scope was vitally important too as it would, due to its location, have to stand up to considerable temperatures and weather changes.
A steel-framed building, about the size of a large house was constructed on top of Haleakala Mountain on the island of Maui, Hawaii, 13,000 ft above sea level.
The telescope was successfully installed and is now fully operational. Unmanned and operated by a remote computer, the telescope opens and closes automatically by hydraulics and is now sending incredible images of outer space back to the control centre in Liverpool.
A further two telescopes are to be constructed in Siding Springs, Australia and La Palma, Canary Islands, each featuring roof decking supplied by Corus Panels and Profiles. | | | For further information please contact
Anna Greenway Tel: +44 (0) 1684 856600
news@coruspanelsandprofiles.co.uk |
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