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Design
80%
Construction
Spring 2025
Completion Date
$1.78M
Project Cost
About this Project
The new flight hall will allow the College of Engineering and the School of Veterinary Medicine’s California Raptor Center to perform a new type of research into how bird flight can inform aircraft design. The facility will be a prefabricated barn equipped with infrared and high-speed, high-resolution cameras. This sub-millisecond and sub-millimeter accurate equipment enhances the research capabilities by developing a method to address fundamental questions related to uncrewed aerial systems and bird flight dynamics and control in complex and unsteady environments. The flight hall will also feature holding cages for the birds called “mews.”
More information
Bird Flight Research Center Breaks Ground at UC Davis
- November 18, 2024 | UC Davis College of Engineering
UC Davis Establishes Bird Flight Research Center
February 01, 2024 | UC Davis
Project Location | California Raptor Museum |
Client | College Engineering, School of Veterinary Medicine |
Design Team | DCM Design Group |
Contractor | American River Construction, Inc. |
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Brent Gesell
Position Title
- Project Manager