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Builders Rise to the Challenge at Tucson Research Facility

The Grand Challenges Research Building occupies a former narrow parking lot surrounded by two athletic venues and a pair of related research facilities. Photo courtesy of Kitchell Corp.

The team behind the University of Arizona’s $99-million Grand Challenges Research Building (GCRB) is wrapping up a seven-level lab structure. The new building will house around a half-dozen different cutting-edge functions and programs in an extremely tight footprint within just 2.5 years.

Among other operations, GCRB will serve as the new headquarters of the Center for Quantum Networks, which will occupy 15,000 square feet on the 3rd and 4th floors. CQN expects to move into the new building in early 2024. For more details on the challenging project, from a tight construction footprint to planning for heavy loads to the use of robotics, read more at https://www.enr.com/articles/55712-builders-rise-to-the-challenge-at-tucson-research-facility

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