Stripping a relic: Moffett Field’s Hangar One, Bay Area’s most famous skeleton, nearly naked
When viewed from Highway 101, the deconstruction of Moffett Field’s Hangar One resembles dozens of white ants tearing the flesh off a metal caterpillar.
The 79-year-old hangar’s walls and roof contained polychlorinated biphenyls , asbestos and lead paint. In 2003 NASA determined that the hangar was leaking PCBs into storm drains and a nearby stormwater basin. While NASA now owns Hangar One, its former owner the Navy is responsible for cleaning it up.
This time around the Navy opted to use towering, reusable scaffolding, weighing more than 4.5 million pounds, to meet today’s strength and safety requirements, and to better intertwine with the skeleton of the building. After contractors finish with one section, they can deconstruct the scaffolding and reconstruct it for another section, while simultaneously working on other sections. “Everything’s going on at the same time,” Maniaci said.
Subcontractors will remove 700,000 board feet — about 1.6 million pounds — of redwood siding. The subcontractor NCM Group, headquartered in Brea, will shave off the lead paint and PCBs to decontaminate the lumber and then sell it. Maniaci said the metal couldn’t be recycled without severely weakening it, and 1.3 million pounds have already been shipped in airtight containers for burial at the Grassy Mountain landfill in Utah.
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