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Changes 1998 Gudrun Nielsen
Paul Craggs Estates Manager of New Greenham Park Ltd Barry Goillau Director of Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd and Gudrun Nielsen at the site.
The Main Entrance to New Greenham Park. The site of installation pegged out, a temporary wooden plinth expressing the scale of the upcoming plinths.
Work in progress Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd.Dagenham
Two of the nine forms beeing folded and welded at BSE.
Changes, the curved edge fold, detail. BSE Dagenham.
The Cor-ten steel forms starting to weather, waiting installation in the yard at BSE Dagenham.
Work in progress on the nine plinths, with the use of recycled concrete and reinforcement taken from the longest runway in Europe. The men from HM Roofing and Construction at work.
The day of installation 14th of July. The nine sculptures on the truck. Drainage can be seen in the centre of the dipped top of the plinths.
Barry Goillau from Benson-Sedgwick Engineering and his team from Mtec start the process of installing the Cor-ten steel sculptures.
One almost down and eight to go. In the rain by the entrance to New Greenham Park.
Work in progress.
The steel form rests on its welded rods on the concrete plinth before lifted for the holes to be drilled.
The upper end form in the line on its way.
Put to rest on the highest standing plinth.
The heaviest sculpture lifted, two 2 x 2 m folded Cor-ten steel plates in the air.
Checking the distance between plinth and sculpture.
The steel plate adjusted on the plinth.
Guiding the way.
The sun is out, we are getting there
The team working on the plinth, drilling for the rods and blowing the dust from the drilled holes.
The rods guided into the drilled holes. A mixture in the coffee cup with concrete dust from the drilling, kept to cover the top of the holes when the sculpture have been put in its right position.
The sculptures in place. On it´s second day of installation, detail.
Birds-eye view along the centre line of the sculpture. Early September.
View down the slope.
Unveiling 24. September by Sir Peter Michael in the precence of the Icelandic Ambassador Mr. Benedikt Jónsson
Detail I
Detail II
Photos: Model of Changes 1998 - Peter Mills The installed sculpture on site - Leigh Quinnell Work in progress Dagenham 2009 and 2010 - BSE photos Installation days - Vilmundur Gudnason
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