UCDOPP5261 - Retrofit of New Research Glasshouse

Descriptions

UCD Rosemount Environmental Research Station is a state-of-the-art plant and environmental research and teaching facility under the joint management of the School of Biology and Environmental Science and School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. Facilities for plant and crop research include containment and production glasshouses and 15 future experimental climate chambers with full monitoring & control of climate, atmospheric composition, light, relative humidity and irrigation. Phenotyping equipment includes a large capacity 3D X-ray CT scanner, high resolution X-Ray CT scanner and PSI plant imaging equipment. The Lamb-Clarke Irish Historical Apple collection is situated at Rosemount which comprises some seventy-five cultivars of culinary and dessert apples of Irish origin. The contract is for the retrofitting of a new research glasshouse built in 2020.