787 Dreamliner Final Assembly building opens in South Carolina

Posted by John McHaleNORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., 11 June 2011. Boeing [NYSE: BA] officials opened the 787 Dreamliner Final assembly building at the company's North Charleston, S.C., location. The new facility will produce three 787 aircraft per month when at full production capacity.Boeing engineers and other personnel started moving into the new facility this spring, while final assembly of the first 787 Dreamliner built there The new building uses thin-film solar laminate panels provide as much as 2.6 megawatts of electrical power for the building.The Final Assembly structure has 642,720 square feet (59,711 m2) of covered space, roughly the equivalent of 10 and a half football fields. More than 18,000 tons of steel and one million cubic feet of concrete were used to build it.