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Construction Update

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:01:19 +0000

Sinking the five-tonne concrete anchor blocks which will hold the geotextile mat in place. The giant geotextile bags will then be placed on top of the mat and filled with sand from the beach via a 260 metre-long flexible pipe. It will take 4 hours to fill each of the 55 geotextile bags used to make up the reef.

Reef Construction Begins!

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:06:20 +0000

These large mounds of beach material lying infront the Honeycombe Chine development will be used to fill the 55 ‘geotextile bags’ that make up the surf reef. After refinement, the sand will then be pumped using piping from the beach to the reef construction site which is 260 metres offshore.

Photos:

Video: First Day of Construction

Other videos include this short video interview with Dr Shaw Mead, featured on BBC South Today, or the following video on BBC News.

How Do You Build A Surf Reef?

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:09:00 +0000

This month, construction begins on the £1.4m artificial surf reef in Bournemouth. It is expected to attract up to 10,000 surfers a year. But how do you go about constructing an artificial surf reef?

Read the full story, with video, on the BBC News website.

Just Add Water to Make Waves!

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:32:25 +0000

A peek under the computer-generated sea reveals how Europe’s first artificial surf reef will be constructed.

The geo-textile bags and webbing base for the Boscombe reef are on their way from Australia and New Zealand and are expected to arrive in the UK at the end of June.

Construction on the reef can then start in the middle of July, with a completion date of the end of October.

For more information, read today’s article in the Bournemouth Echo

Article Reproduced with Permission.