In 1994 at Troyes in France the assembly was tested by an Italian and French team.

 The construction started at DomeC in 1999, and was completed in 2004.

The station is made up of 2 buildings (18 sides each), diameter 18.5m and 12m high. It’s weight 200ton is distributed on 6 columns for each building on a 3.5m high snow bern.

The structure is made up of ordinary steel calculated with standards higher than ordinary ones.
To avoid lamination related to low temperatures, each element chosen for the structure is more than 15mm thick.

The columns are equipped with an hydraulic system that let the station to arise for 40 cm to avoid the ice sinking

The sandwich panels are made of expanded polyurethane covered with glass fibber for a total thickness of 16cm.
The system was developed this way to have both to minimize the heating loss and to have high performances under fire.

To reduce the heating loss, a joint system made up of wooden and silicon was developed to avoid connections between the inner metal structure and the outside parts.

The main buildings are almost cylindrical to further reduce the heating loss, and that made some difficulties in developing the inner space organization. The main parameters for that study were ergonomic aspects: i.e. the walls have different colors according to the functions of rooms

The Concordia power station is made up of 3 Diesel generators adapted to the particular conditions of the air at Dome C. For safety reasons, there is also an emergency Diesel generator inside the noisy building. Each generator can deliver 125kW at full load. The average power request was in total 85kW during the 2006/7 summer campaign and required 610 liters of Diesel per day. 35kW were needed for scientific activities outside the station. As a rule of thumb,the annual costs per kW is 7100 Euros.

The station is equipped with a vacuum system to collect grey and black water. That system let to use the 80% water less than traditional ones.
Wastewater arte later treated by reverse osmosis system developed together with ESA (EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY). http://www.esa.int/esaCP/UnitedKingdom.html