The idea for the bathhouse was born in 2006 and it became the first building of its kind in Antarctica. Glued timber was chosen as the material because of its thermal stability and energy efficiency. The project was developed in the summer of 2006; it was produced and test-built at Greenside's factory in
Saint Petersburg, Russia. All engineering systems were first made on a special test model between December 2006 and March 2007 in Greenside's Saint Petersburg factory. Glued timber parts were shipped to Antarctica by the
icebreaker Akademik Fyodorov in November 2006. In November 2007, an Antarctic team of Greenside specialists made a trip to the
South Pole to supervise the assembly. This building now stands on
Novolazarevskaya station and took 43 days to complete. ==Grand opening==