Kappcon has completed the infrastructure needed for the installation of a new telescope at Biosphere 2.
Telescope Buildings
MMT Observatory from a different angle
Kappcon, Inc provides Design-Assist services to the Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory through an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract.
We LOVE working cool mountain top jobs in the SUMMER and the hot desert jobs in the WINTER…but it usually doesn’t work out that way : )
Check out the GoPro video that MMT staff tweeted this week…it shows the observatory from a different point of view!
Check out this video of the Bell Jar being lifted at the summit. Taken yesterday by C. Beck of Marco Crane. https://t.co/8BZcIfLiLy
— MMT Observatory (@mmtobservatory) August 17, 2016
Challenging work on a mountain top Observatory
Way up on Mt Graham, Arizona there is the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory.
This building experiences some of the most extreme environmental conditions.
To add to the excitement of the extreme environmental conditions, this building won’t hold still. It rotates 560 degrees and has two roof shutters that open and shut every night for a world class science program.
This summer our challenge was to improve existing metal roofs that have suffered damage due to falling ice and snow.
