The Technology, Design, and Safety Center had to have been the fastest large construction project on campus. Workers began demolishing the old Adams Technology building in July 2011, just after graduation, and the TDS Center was finished in August 2012, just in time to welcome Architecture, Safety, and SPDI students for their fall classes. The finishing touch, the huge solar-panel array, was installed from March–May 2013, and (as of this posting) is now fully operational, ready to produce electricity! It’s just awaiting final permitting by PSNH.

This state-of-the art facility was designed to be sustainable and resource-efficient and to support LEED Platinum certification. Watch this amazing construction project, from beginning to end, in just 5:48 minutes of time-lapse video, created by Colin Burdick, KSC’s CAD technologist and clerk of the works: