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Home > NCEP News New Building Update - 15-May-2007

New Building Update - 15-May-2007

The following pictures were taken on May 9 at the building site in Riverdale, MD for the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction. They show a footer being dug, and the installation of bases for crane towers. In the background of one of the pictures is a building being built by the University of Maryland.

Concrete reinforcing bar on site. Workers setting crane base in concrete.
Workers trenching building foundation. View of site showing two crane tower bases.
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The next set of pictures were taken on May 14. They show further construction of the crane towers needed to begin construction of the frame of the new building.

Worker standing on crane base. First crane tower being assembled.
Close-up of first crane tower assembly. Another close-up of first crane tower assembly.
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These pictures were taken May 15. They show more work on the footers and an overall view of the site taken from the rear of the property.

Continuing foundation work. Continuing foundation work.
Continuing foundation work. Continuing foundation work.
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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:

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