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Challenge
To provide a warm, comfortable and relocatable living/laboratory
facility for field personnel living and working in Greenland,
where frigid temperatures remain at –45 Celsius and dip
to extremes of –65 Celsius, winds can reach 40 knots and
annual snow accumulation can exceed three feet.
Solution
ATCO Structures manufactured this three-unit complex at its Calgary
facility, providing sleeping, kitchen/dining, washroom/laundry
and a laboratory for four people. The complex was then transported
by truck from Calgary to New York, and by Hercules aircraft
to Greenland where it was located at the summit of the Greenland
ice sheet – the Summit Camp, which is only accessible
by ski-equipped aircraft.
Details
The contract for this living/laboratory facility was awarded
by the Polar Ice Coring Office, University of Nebraska and
is designed for harsh climatic conditions and quipped with
a number of emergency back-up systems.
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