We can do X-rays too.
I’ve since been exploring the design of the portal/connector frames (the parts which tie it all together), and made a couple of assumptions which caught up with me a couple of days later… all this stuff is way heavier than I thought.
When I finally got round to running some calculations, a typical module weighs is at over 650 kg – more like 1200kg. Humph. I’m exploring my options at the moment:
- have more chopper lift-into-place, more onsite connections
- chopper (or crane) lift in the bits, so that they can be manhandled into position by labourers
- as above, but include a little gantry crane running on the structure which can lift each bit into place
- figure out another interpretation of the module which allows easier separation between structure and cladding