Sites, buildings and structures

Introduction

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Architectural and Civil Engineering Department was responsible for development of the BBC's buildings, masts and towers.  It was based in Henry Wood House, Portland Place, and worked closely with the Capital Projects Departments.

From about 1970 ??  a part of Transmitter Operations called Site Acquisition Section was responsible for finding new sites for transmitters.  Many new sites were needed to extend coverage of the BBC1 and BBC2 UHF television service and it made sense to co-locate with sites needed to expand ITV and Channel 4.  As a result, about half of the new sites were acquired by the BBC and half by the IBA (now Arqiva), then each site was shared.