Greenhouse: a place to grow

摘要

When the forty-year-old Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station greenhouse on the West Ridge of the UAF campus was dismantled in the spring of 2011 to make way for the new Life Sciences Facility, it was only a matter of months before a new $5 million teaching and research greenhouse was constructed.The new greenhouse, attached to Arctic Health Research Building, is already in use. The 4,500-square-foot facility includes space-efficient teaching and research areas equipped with state-of-the-art environmental control and innovative plant production systems. The finished upper level has two greenhouse sections of 750 square feet and two sections of 375 square feet. The lower level has three sections of 750 square feet each and houses a 900-square-foot growth chamber area.