BrightSource can point to its SEGS experience and the fact that the engineering firm Bechtel is helping design and build its Ivanpah project.

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SunPower will continue to develop the project, and will design, build, operate and maintain the solar power plant.

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University College London's part in the project has been to design and build an optical corrector for the camera - an array of five massive lenses that sit at the primary focus of the camera.

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The proof of concept design was initially created some time ago, and sponsors of the project have helped build the hardware according to the students' original designs.

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The ACA pulled out of a project to build a memorial after victims' relatives began squabbling over a design.

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