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The real answer, in case anybody was wondering: they build the whole thing on shore in a drydock, then float it out to the site towed by tugboats. The concrete base is water-tight, so it's buoyant until they fill it with ballast to fix it in position. (It's also possible that they build the base and superstructure separately, install the base first, then carry the superstructure out and hoist it onto the base using a ship with a very large crane on it.)
So not as cool as the research flip vessel.