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University of Colorado Denver Students Design-Build Antarctica Research Home

  Photo courtesy: University of Colorado Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning

Twenty-two University of Colorado Denver graduate students, working with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), Bespoke Project Solutions, and OZ Architecture, have completed phase one of a two-year design-build project. The Cape Shirreff design-build project will provide eco-friendly prefabricated structures for NOAA researchers in Antarctica.

NOAA’s Division Director, George Waters, told the CU Denver News, “The new sustainable buildings will enable the continuation of NOAA Fisheries’ long-term research that provides the basis for ecosystem-based management of fisheries in the Southern Ocean. We are proud that this will be purposefully designed to have a minimal environmental impact.”

Photo courtesy: University of Colorado Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning

The first phase of this innovative design-build public-private partnership project was built on campus in 19 weeks by CU Denver’s Colorado Building Workshop students, including 40% women. The project not only provides valuable real-world design-build experience for students but also delivers innovative and sustainable infrastructure supporting NOAA’s long-term research goals. The University of Colorado Denver is one of DBIA’s 26 student chapters and we offer our congratulations to this impressive student project team.

See the full story at the CU Denver News.