PIGS MIGHT FLY

摘要

We've used 6,174wheelbarrow-loads of concrete to build this chimney," Gary Spooner shouts, trying to make himself heard in the gusting wind that heralds the approach of storm Barney. As construction manager for enabling works contractor Skanska on Phase 2 of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment, Spooner's responsibilities include removal and replacement of the iconic power station's four giant reinforced concrete chimneys. Steadying himself against the scaffolding of a jump-form rig perched on top of the power station's south-west chimney, 101m above the mud and clatter of the construction activity below, Spooner appears to pay little heed to the strengthening wind as he eagerly expounds on how the first of the power station's giant chimneys was carefully dismantled and is now being rebuilt to precisely replicate the original.