A new maintenance building (approx. 1,500 sq. ft.) would be located south of the historic core and would contain a workshop, ‘dirty’ lab for researchers, and enclosed maintenance yard (Figure 2.4, “Research Campus Plan”). The maintenance facility would be located near the service roads to provide access to all locations on site. With the adjacent new lab building, the maintenance building would create an enclosed yard for maintenance activities and for delivery of field specimens. The building would consist of a shop on the north end and a storage room on the south, with a roofed parking area for two cars or small trucks and two electric vehicles in between. There would be a charging station for several electric vehicles. The building would have a concrete slab floor, a wood or steel frame, and SIPs for the exterior walls. Exterior finishes would be composite board and batten siding, and sheet metal for the gable roof over the shop and parking. The roof of the storage space would be flat, accessed via an outdoor stair at the south end of the building. With a parapet wall around it, the rooftop would provide space for ongoing outdoor UNLV experiments.

At this location, these activities would be out of the line of sight from the historic public area of the ranch. A gated fence would enclose both ends of the maintenance yard.