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The new home of ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration was formally dedicated on Wednesday with a grand opening ceremony and forum. SESE shares the building with a number of engineering programs.
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The Interdisciplinary Science & Technology Building 4 (ISTB4, right. Credit ASU) "is the single largest research building at ASU, with roughly
300,000 square feet of premier high-technology research laboratories,
office areas, and collaboration spaces specifically designed to promote
transdisciplinary team interactions."
The construction took over 70 million pounds of concrete (>20,000 cubic yards), 837 tons of structural steel, and 1,855,149 feet of wire (all of which had to be mined by the way).
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The main floor is set up like an interactive science museum with a spectacular giant globe where visitors choose what planet-wide phenomena to view. Video screens are everywhere, but your attention is drawn to the Mars operation center behind a wall of glass, with live feeds from the Red Planet. A Mars rover sits just inside the main doors and a wide variety of ASU's extensive meteorite collection is on display on the second floor veranda.
Good luck to all researchers in there... What a beautiful place just for all of you.
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