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2013-03-07

CP 000649 | New Indian Research Station "Bharati" in Antarctica

A new research station was built in East Antarctica for the Indian Ministry of Geosciences in the Antarctic summer months of 2010/11 and 2011/12. The design and planning come from the offices of bof Architekten and IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft in Hamburg, Germany.

The complex structure consists of an enveloping steel structure and a total of 134 special containers, which were integrated to transfer vertical and horizontal loads. The final structural analysis was carried out by the German engineering office of KSF in Bremerhaven.