Consolidated Education and Training Facility

From USAFA Folklore

The Consolidated Education and Training Facility (CETF) is the 2-story annex building just east of Fairchild Hall and is connected to Fairchild Hall by a second story sky bridge. It contains chemistry and biology classrooms and labs, medical and dental clinics, and civil engineering and astronautics laboratories. It was built in 1997.

[edit] Architecture

(adapted from USAFA's National Historic Landmark application)

This new academic building was constructed at the eastern end of the Cadet Area in 1997. Designed by Henningson, Durham and Richardson, the CETF building was located next to the existing Fairchild Hall. The roof of the CETF building was an extension of the Terrazzo level, preserving the visual connection from the Terrazzo through Fairchild Hall to the natural landscape. The two-story building employs the modern architectural elements of the older structures, with its rectangular form, flat roof, and use of a curtain wall. The CETF is 336,393 square feet.

[edit] Trivia

• There is a DSCS II communications satellite in the Astro Lab museum that is too large to have been put into the building through any door. Instead, the satellite was put in place and that part of the building was actually built around it. The satellite was originally displayed in Fairchild Hall and several very large windows were removed from the second floor hallway facing Mitchell Hall to allow the satellite to be inserted by crane.
• The roof of CETF is at Terrazzo level. A large set of baffles are placed where it connects to the sky bridge, to prevent cadets from simply walking onto the roof of CETF.