LARS installs UK-first search and rescue domes

By Lancashire Business View

17 Jul 2018

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Carnforth-based LARS Communications was the principal contractor on a UK-first installation of domes in Hampshire that will aid search and rescue efforts.

Six Medium Earth Orbit Local User Terminal (MEOLUT) domes have been installed at a Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) site at in Hampshire’s Solent Airport Daedalus.

The MEOLUTs, which have been developed by McMurdo, are state-of-the-art systems for receiving distress beacons, and will provide the MCA with near instantaneous detection of distress beacons and rapidly resolved location of the beacons using “single burst” processing.

The domes, which are four metres in diameter and sit on a base which is five metres square, are located equidistant from a centrally positioned ‘GEOLUT antenna’, a five metre dish in the middle of the domes. In total, LARS installed a GEOLUT, a MEO/LEO antenna and six MEOLUT antennas.

The installation is the only one of its kind in the UK and one of only seven in the world.

The scope of works included: undertaking dimensional surveys of the site; the preparation of designs and drawings for the bases and the equipment cabin; the fabrication of all steelwork required for the installation; the development of a full health and safety plan; excavation and construction of the MEOLUT dome bases; construction of the GEOLUT antenna base; installation of the equipment cabin and generator; excavation of trenches for ducting and installation of the ducting and earth tapes; and full traffic management of the site.

Most of the steelwork fabrication was carried out in LARS’ fully-equipped, in-house fabrication workshop.

The new system will enable the MCA to respond promptly to any emergency situations and find individuals by their activated distress beacons using the most reliable system on the market today. It also enables the MCA to reliably ignore over ninety percent of erroneous signals which are transmitted by out of date beacons.

Julian Cooper, business development manager at LARS, said: “We are very proud to work with the UK MCA and this was a major undertaking for all involved, and one which will be hugely beneficial to so many people. "Working as the principal contractor came with a lot of responsibility, but the team have been fantastic, rising to the challenge and overseeing the installation of this state-of-the-art equipment which will save so many lives.”

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