A 20-person-plus team is working on the second season of building a new science and operations building located in Antarctica. Construction can only take place during a short window during the Antarctic summer months, avoiding the harsh, dark winter. This season, the team aims to complete the pre-cast concrete foundations, ground floor slab, rock anchors and stub columns, as well as drainage and the perimeter wall, before returning in December to complete the outer structure. The scientific support facility, named the Discovery Building, commemorates the discovery of Antarctica just over 200 years ago. Facilities in the new two-story 4,500-square-meter building … Read more