A group of University of Colorado Denver students are working on a special construction project for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service that will be utilized in Antarctica.
The students, from the College of Architecture and Planning, designed two buildings that will be used for scientific research.
“This project is extremely specialized in the sense that Antarctica is a pretty rough environment and extremely inaccessible. So the structures are prefabricated structures that we’re building here in Denver, and then we’re going to take them completely apart, they each have to be modular. So they’re basically being broken down into small building components that can then be shipped to the islands and a small kind of rubber boat has to drive piece by piece by piece, each one of these structures to this remote island, where they’re going to be put back together,” Rick Sommerfeld, the Director of Colorado Building workshop, a design build program at the University of Colorado, said. “The scientists are studying krill populations and the predatory species that actually feed on those populations, mostly penguins and fur seals. So the students are here designing the last two buildings of a four building project for the scientists of Antarctica.”
Sommerfeld said because current students are working on completing their course work, CU Denver alumni were given the opportunity to make the special delivery.
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