Denver Federal Center Ice Core Relocation Services ICECORE810
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AI-generated · Jan 27, 2026Relocation services are required to move irreplaceable ice cores owned by NSF from its legacy facility to the newly constructed NSF Ice Core Facility at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, CO. The facility’s core purpose is safe, secure storage and ongoing curation of ice cores from NSF-sponsored projects, with on-site access for scientists to examine the cores without traveling to remote field sites.
The contractor and personnel must operate in the facility’s extreme temperatures during relocation, without risking any damage to the ice cores. Work will involve moving materials in and around the main archive freezer (-36C, 55,000 cu ft) and the adjoining examination room (-24C, 12,000 cu ft), as well as coordinating with surrounding spaces used for fabrication, storage, changing areas, offices, and visiting scientist workspace.
Relocation services of irreplaceable Ice Cores for the National Science Foundation (NSF) from it's legacy faciity to its newly constructed facility both located at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, CO. The facility's most important responsibility is for the safe and secure storage and curation of ice cores collected primarily by NSF-sponsored projects. The facility also allows scientists to examine ice cores without having to travel to remote field sites. The main archive freezer is 55,000 cubic feet in size and is held at a temperature of -36C. A second room for examination of ice cores, held at -24C, is 12,000 cubic feet in size and is contiguous with the archive area. NSF-ICF also maintains space outside the freezer for material fabrication, storage, changing areas, offices, and visiting scientist workspace. The relocation services requested will require the resposible firm and it's personnel to work in these extreme temperatures while relocated the ice cores without risk of damaging any of the cores being moved.
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