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| AMEC to build world’s largest optical telescope AMEC, the international project management and engineering services company, unveiled plans for a telescope the size of a football field to be built over the next 10 years. The Thirty-Metre Telescope, called TMT, will dwarf existing telescopes and will be housed in an observatory the size of a large stadium. Unlike current telescopes, which have one mirror, this will have 780 mirrors side-by-side acting as one big mirror. Although a site for the telescope has not been selected, it is hoped that preconstruction would likely begin in 2008 so that it would become operational by 2015. The plans were unveiled in Vancouver, Canada, where AMEC engineers have been working on the project. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |