Based upon our competitive bid, Sea West was awarded the contract for First Phase construction of the CHARA Array atop Mt. Wilson in California.

With construction project direction by CEO, Eric Simison, the Sea West team successfully negotiated with regulatory agencies, designed and engineered critical telescope housing components, invented animation systems and fabricated and installed enclosures for the six telescopes in the interferometric CHARA Array.

Moving the six pre-fabricated seven-ton enclosures to their mountain top foundations inspired yet another creative solution. Sea West devised and implemented a heavy airlift operations plan that achieved several objectives:

• Minimizing the impact on the local terrain and forest growth. 
  
  
• Eliminating the requirement for remote site staging of heavy transport and high lift ground based equipment.
   
• Reducing the overall timeline for this phase of the project.