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Faslane Submarine Base, Scotland
The Vanguard Class Trident nuclear submarine is lifted in the operational condition in the facility, as are other classes of nuclear submarines in the Royal Navy.
The Faslane base, near Glasgow, is used to maintain the UK's nuclear submarine fleet and is the only facility in the world where a nuclear0armed and nuclear-powered submarine can be lifted out of the water.
The Syncrolift system is housed in the covered dock building. It is 165m long with a maximum lifting capacity in excess of 25,000 tons. Goodwin supplied over 600 critical castings for this project.
Photograph ©Crown Copyright/MOD.
Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationary Office. |
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Faslane Base hoist beam castings
The hanger beams were supplied finish machined and are shown here fully assembled.
The shiplift is a platform operated by 96 hoists, each of which is anchored by one of these hanger beam assemblies.
During the manufacture of these items, particular attention was paid to ensuring that the required mechanical properties were achieved in the heavy section of the castings; chemical composition and heat treatment were controlled to ensure that the castings would not be susceptible to brittle fracture.
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Faslane guide rails
120 of these fully machined stainless steel guide rails were supplied to the Faslane project.
Originally designed as a fabrication (which proved to be impossible to produce by others without dimensional distortion), Goodwin redesigned the rails and supplied as a precision machined, radiograph-quality castings.
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Structural roof node
Ultrasonic examination of a structural roof node.
The cast nodes were designed to fit in with the architecture of the Halkin Arcade, a grade II listed building in Belgravia, Knightsbridge, London.
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Jiangyin Bridge - cable band inspection
Cable band clamps are used to clamp the suspension cables then the desk support cables are hung from the clamp, as such they are a critical structural part.
Goodwin supplied the cable clamps for the Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Crossing in China. The crossing consists of a long span six-lane suspension bridge.
The photo shows one of the 12-bolt, 1,800mm cable band assemblies undergoing dimensional inspection prior to packing
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Stratford Station
Stratford Regional Station is on the Jubilee Line Extension linking central London with the Docklands and Greenwich. The Jubilee line will serve the Olympic Park for the 2012 Olympic games to be held in London.
Goodwin supplied the castings which support the station roof.
Picture courtesy of The Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Stratford Station support bases
The building's curved roof springs from the upper-level walkway, parallel with the main railway lines, and sweeps up to a high glazed wall.
Each of these curved roof arches is supported by a base casting manufactured by Goodwin.
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Stratford Station support bases
One of the 16 off 1,900kg castings on dimensional inspection after machining.
All the castings were dressed and conditioned to provide a uniform and pleasing surface. The castings served both a structural and architectural function.
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