As cool as James Bond may be, he doesn't quite measure up to the 1.9 million litre Martini Glass Aquarium, which is currently under construction at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami, Florida. The pour was overseen by Skanska and took 300 workers 25 hours to complete. The workers were broken up into two shifts and managed to pump the 917 cubic meters of concrete in the timeframe provided without a single crack. As the concrete had to be set in one pour, the project required the coordination of 131 concrete trucks.
The entire 25 hours was filmed using a time-lapse camera which and compressed the 25 hours into only 76 seconds. The clip shows the extraordinary effort of the workers to pull together and work as a tight knit team against the clock. The aquarium is set to be complete in 2016 and features a window at the bottom of the tank that is nine metres in diameter for observers to look through from below. The aquarium is said to be one of the most unique aquariums in the world and one of the biggest concrete pours in history.
The team has now moved on to their next project at the Museum which is to assemble a spherical planetarium made from precast concrete segments which are shaped like orange peels.
To read more about the aquarium or to watch the time-lapse video, visit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2886705/Watch-incredible-martini-glass-aquarium-shape-Miami-concrete-poured-25-hours-solid.html#v-3960024692001
