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Master Plan for the South Pole Redevelopment Project4. Conclusion The new station master plan and conceptual design was presented at a conference in Washington, DC in March of 1994. The peer audience of architects, engineers, scientists, administrators, and operations staff accepted the design with suggestions for minor modifications. In 1995 Ferraro Choi reorganized its design team replacing M&E with two engineering firms, BBFM structural engineers and PDC mechanical and electrical engineers from Anchorage, Alaska. A communications group, AlliedSignal Technical Services from Columbia, Maryland, was also added to the team as a response to an expanded scope of design work. In 1996, after two years of engineering studies, Ferraro Choi’s design team proceeded with the design of the garage/shops in a new corrugated steel arch structure. In 1997, in response to an NSF directed program change, the team began the design of the new power plant in a similar steel arch structure. The design of the above-surface habitat and cargo arch structures began in 1998. Program changes reduced the station’s occupancy capacity to 110 and value engineering modified the concept design to include only two “C” shaped structures. The construction documents were completed in April of 1999 with the master plan remaining fundamentally intact . Construction on the garage, the fuel storage and the cargo arch is nearly completed and construction of the power plant will begin in the November 2000 season. Completion of the project is scheduled for 2005. References Ferraro Choi And Associates Ltd Conceptual Design and Programming Study South Pole Replacement Facilities for Peer Review. March 1994 Table of Contents Return to Publications
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