Boeing progresses on giant $750M Dreamliner jet plant
1.2 million-square-foot building has been under construction for nine months, and is on schedule to be completed next July.
Boeing Co. is erecting a $750 million plant in Charleston, S.C., where it will manufacture its jumbo 787 passenger jets. About 1,800 construction workers are on the project. The 1.2 million-square-foot building has been under construction for nine months, and the skeletal frame is up.
Bright yellow construction cranes pierce the blue sky above Boeing Co.'s half-built jet manufacturing plant, beaming like spotlights to call attention to the largest economic development project in Lowcountry history.
The building's ultimate purpose, to house thousands of workers who will piece together the aviation giant's new 787 passenger jets, can distract from the construction under way at Charleston International Airport. But building the structure's skeletal frame, now mostly covered with white panelling, has proven to be a feat itself.
Against stubborn weather and with a roster of more than 1,800 construction workers, many of whom have never worked on a project of such magnitude, the $750 million building project is on track to finish in July.
And workers are scheduled to celebrate a milestone later this month after they place the last major piece of steel atop the elaborate structure.
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Source: The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)/The (Charleston) Post
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