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This article looks at how a modular design speeds London Aviation Centre hangar project. This project is essentially a big Meccano set. All the pieces are pre fabricated and shipped to the site and easily put together then tilted up on site. The fact that this project is a hangar which requires large spans with no coloumns as such in the middle of the main floor space, allows a construction technique of this kind to be undertaken.

Source: Daily commercial news and construction record [http://www.dcnonl.com/article/id27284]