Real Challenges

For more than 25 years, Sea West Enterprises, Inc. had been a small-but-successful design/build contractor in southern California. The company utilized Microsoft® products to run the business, relying on Microsoft Excel for estimating and Microsoft Project for project management.

About six years ago, Sea West discovered new opportunities in a market niche it characterizes as "high tech, high altitude"-astronomical observatories and broadcast and communication towers . . .

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20 May 1999, Mount Wilson, California.
Photographs and text by Prof. H.A. McAlister. 

This morning, the historic 20-ft beam Michelson stellar interferometer was disturbed from its resting place in the rafters of the 100-inch telescope building on Mt. Wilson where it has been stored in wraps ("swaddling cloth" as described by Allan Sandage)since its use in the early 1920's to measure diameters of supergiant stars. The instrument was pulled out of the rafters by a crew from Sea West Enterprises, Inc., CHARA's prime contractor on Mt. Wilson, in preparation for its restoration and display in the exhibit hall attached to CHARA Control/Office Building. That building is now under construction . . .