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Construction Pictures from the NCWCP Site
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Location of NCWCP site plan(University of Maryland website)
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Construction Pictures from the NCWCP Site
October 16, 2008
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Entrance area to NCWCP
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Interior of auditorium
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Another view of the entrance; yellow walls are temporary
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Boxes of raised flooring panels stored in the atrium
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View from below of scaffolding and platform across atrium. The platform is being used to help with the installation of the ceiling trim, lights and other finishing work at the fourth floor level and above.
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Another view of the scaffolding
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Library space on the first floor
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Area to be used for the guards' office and lockers
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First floor data center area
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NCO office area on first floor showing ductwork to be located under the raised flooring
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Exercise room
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Showers adjacent to the exercise room
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Courtyard outside of atrium
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Patio area in courtyard outside deli entrance
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Deli entrance
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Deli patio looking east toward parking garage
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West side of building with loading dock and two story data center wing in the foreground. Black posts in foreground mark the property boundary.
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Bulldozer working on a pile of dirt
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Excavation for assorted power connections
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Second floor north wing with raised floor installed (EMC area)
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Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation office area on second floor (note installed raised flooring and ceiling grid)
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Third floor south wing (front of building)
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Looking up the stairs to the cupola from ARL area on the 4th floor
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Green roof with plants installed (enlarge it and you can see the sprinklers going)
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NCEP Office of the Director office area on fourth floor
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Corner where NCEP Director's office will be
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NCEP Public affairs Officer Carmeyia Gillis poses outside of her office
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Media Center on fourth floor
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Another view of the media center
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Fourth floor HPC/OPC ops area
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Deli patio from above
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Drywalling upper walls in atrium
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CPC office area on third floor
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Second floor EMC area looking west
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Atrium stairway
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Fieldstone wall across from building entrance. UMD building is in the background
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Entrance, with auditorium on the right
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The NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, will be located on a new 50-acre section
of the University of Maryland's M-Square Research and Technology Park.
Opus East, L.L.C., of Rockville, Md., working with Hellmuth, Obata +
Kassabaum, Inc. as the lead design and interior architect, will design,
construct and own the building and lease it to the GSA.
Opus arranged a long-term ground lease with the
University of Maryland
for the development. The 268,762 square-foot building will be the new home for NOAA.s Satellite and Information
Service, Air Resources Laboratory and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Archive of building construction progress:
NCWCP Construction Picture Archive
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