diff --git a/model-engine/model_engine_server/infra/services/live_endpoint_builder_service.py b/model-engine/model_engine_server/infra/services/live_endpoint_builder_service.py
index bef91df0a..aecef2c75 100644
--- a/model-engine/model_engine_server/infra/services/live_endpoint_builder_service.py
+++ b/model-engine/model_engine_server/infra/services/live_endpoint_builder_service.py
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 ECR_AWS_PROFILE: str = os.getenv("ECR_READ_AWS_PROFILE", "default")  # type: ignore
 GIT_TAG: str = os.getenv("GIT_TAG")  # type: ignore
 ENV: str = os.getenv("DD_ENV")  # type: ignore
+WORKSPACE_PATH = os.getenv("WORKSPACE", ".")
 
 INITIAL_K8S_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS: int = 60
 MAX_IMAGE_TAG_LEN = 128
@@ -494,7 +495,6 @@ def get_base_image_params(
 
         # The context should be whatever WORKDIR is in the container running the build app itself.
         inference_folder = "model-engine/model_engine_server/inference"
-        base_path: str = os.getenv("WORKSPACE")  # type: ignore
 
         logger_adapter.info(f"inference_folder: {inference_folder}")
         logger_adapter.info(f"dockerfile: {inference_folder}/{dockerfile}")
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ def get_base_image_params(
             repo=hmi_config.user_inference_base_repository,
             image_tag=resulting_image_tag[:MAX_IMAGE_TAG_LEN],
             aws_profile=ECR_AWS_PROFILE,  # type: ignore
-            base_path=base_path,
+            base_path=WORKSPACE_PATH,
             dockerfile=f"{inference_folder}/{dockerfile}",
             base_image=base_image,
             requirements_folder=None,
@@ -557,9 +557,7 @@ def _get_user_image_params(
 
         # The context should be whatever WORKDIR is in the container running the build app itself.
         inference_folder = "model-engine/model_engine_server/inference"
-        base_path: str = os.getenv("WORKSPACE")  # type: ignore
-
-        requirements_folder = os.path.join(base_path, f"requirements_{requirements_hash}")
+        requirements_folder = os.path.join(WORKSPACE_PATH, f"requirements_{requirements_hash}")
         try:
             os.mkdir(requirements_folder)
         except FileExistsError:
@@ -577,7 +575,7 @@ def _get_user_image_params(
             repo=ecr_repo,
             image_tag=service_image_tag[:MAX_IMAGE_TAG_LEN],
             aws_profile=ECR_AWS_PROFILE,
-            base_path=base_path,
+            base_path=WORKSPACE_PATH,
             dockerfile=f"{inference_folder}/{dockerfile}",
             base_image=base_image,
             requirements_folder=requirements_folder,
@@ -609,9 +607,7 @@ def _get_inject_bundle_image_params(
         # The context should be whatever WORKDIR is in the container running the build app itself.
         dockerfile = "inject_bundle.Dockerfile"
         inference_folder = "model-engine/model_engine_server/inference"
-        base_path: str = os.getenv("WORKSPACE")  # type: ignore
-
-        bundle_folder = os.path.join(base_path, f"bundle_{service_image_hash}")
+        bundle_folder = os.path.join(WORKSPACE_PATH, f"bundle_{service_image_hash}")
         try:
             os.mkdir(bundle_folder)
         except FileExistsError:
@@ -635,7 +631,7 @@ def _get_inject_bundle_image_params(
             repo=ecr_repo,
             image_tag=service_image_tag[:MAX_IMAGE_TAG_LEN],
             aws_profile=ECR_AWS_PROFILE,
-            base_path=base_path,
+            base_path=WORKSPACE_PATH,
             dockerfile=f"{inference_folder}/{dockerfile}",
             base_image=base_image,
             requirements_folder=bundle_folder,
diff --git a/model-engine/requirements.in b/model-engine/requirements.in
index 5cf95a515..2ef63150f 100644
--- a/model-engine/requirements.in
+++ b/model-engine/requirements.in
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ azure-storage-blob~=12.19.0
 boto3-stubs[essential]~=1.26.67
 boto3~=1.21
 botocore~=1.24
-build==0.8.0
+build~=1.0.3
 celery[redis,sqs,tblib]~=5.3.6
 click~=8.1
 cloudpickle==2.1.0
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ protobuf~=3.20
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.3
 py-xid==0.3.0
 pycurl~=7.44  # For celery[sqs]
-pydantic~=1.10.11
+pydantic==1.10.14
 python-multipart~=0.0.7
 quart==0.18.3
 requests-auth-aws-sigv4~=0.7
diff --git a/model-engine/requirements.txt b/model-engine/requirements.txt
index 623b12af1..71e7440d8 100644
--- a/model-engine/requirements.txt
+++ b/model-engine/requirements.txt
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ aiofiles==23.1.0
     # via quart
 aiohttp==3.9.2
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   kubernetes-asyncio
 aioredis==2.0.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 aiosignal==1.3.1
     # via aiohttp
 alembic==1.8.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 amqp==5.1.1
     # via kombu
 anyio==3.7.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ async-timeout==4.0.2
     #   aioredis
     #   redis
 asyncpg==0.27.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 attrs==23.1.0
     # via
     #   aiohttp
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ attrs==23.1.0
 azure-common==1.1.28
     # via azure-keyvault-secrets
 azure-containerregistry==1.2.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 azure-core==1.29.6
     # via
     #   azure-containerregistry
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ azure-core==1.29.6
     #   azure-servicebus
     #   azure-storage-blob
 azure-identity==1.15.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 azure-keyvault-secrets==4.7.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 azure-servicebus==7.11.4
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 azure-storage-blob==12.19.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 backports-zoneinfo[tzdata]==0.2.1
     # via
     #   celery
@@ -72,20 +72,22 @@ blinker==1.6.2
     # via quart
 boto3==1.28.1
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   celery
     #   kombu
 boto3-stubs[essential]==1.26.67
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
+    #   boto3-stubs
 botocore==1.31.1
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   boto3
     #   s3transfer
 botocore-stubs==1.29.165
     # via boto3-stubs
-build==0.8.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+build==1.0.3
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 bytecode==0.14.2
     # via ddtrace
 cachetools==5.3.1
@@ -93,7 +95,9 @@ cachetools==5.3.1
 cattrs==23.1.2
     # via ddtrace
 celery[redis,sqs,tblib]==5.3.6
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
+    #   celery
 certifi==2023.7.22
     # via
     #   datadog-api-client
@@ -108,7 +112,7 @@ charset-normalizer==3.2.0
     # via requests
 click==8.1.4
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   celery
     #   click-didyoumean
     #   click-plugins
@@ -122,35 +126,35 @@ click-plugins==1.1.1
 click-repl==0.3.0
     # via celery
 cloudpickle==2.1.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 colorama==0.4.6
     # via twine
 commonmark==0.9.1
     # via rich
 croniter==1.4.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 cryptography==42.0.5
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   azure-identity
     #   azure-storage-blob
     #   msal
     #   pyjwt
     #   secretstorage
 dataclasses-json==0.5.9
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 datadog==0.47.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 datadog-api-client==2.11.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 ddsketch==2.0.4
     # via ddtrace
 ddtrace==1.8.3
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 deprecation==2.1.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 docker==5.0.3
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 docutils==0.20.1
     # via readme-renderer
 envier==0.4.0
@@ -160,7 +164,7 @@ exceptiongroup==1.2.0
     #   anyio
     #   cattrs
 fastapi==0.110.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 filelock==3.13.1
     # via
     #   huggingface-hub
@@ -174,15 +178,15 @@ fsspec==2023.10.0
 gitdb==4.0.10
     # via gitpython
 gitdb2==2.0.6
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 gitpython==3.1.41
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 google-auth==2.21.0
     # via kubernetes
 greenlet==2.0.2
     # via sqlalchemy
 gunicorn==20.1.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 h11==0.14.0
     # via
     #   httpcore
@@ -196,7 +200,7 @@ hpack==4.0.0
 httpcore==1.0.4
     # via httpx
 httptools==0.5.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 httpx==0.27.0
     # via starlette
 huggingface-hub==0.20.3
@@ -216,6 +220,7 @@ idna==3.7
 importlib-metadata==6.8.0
     # via
     #   alembic
+    #   build
     #   keyring
     #   quart
     #   twine
@@ -243,7 +248,7 @@ jeepney==0.8.0
     #   secretstorage
 jinja2==3.0.3
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   quart
     #   starlette
 jmespath==1.0.1
@@ -251,7 +256,7 @@ jmespath==1.0.1
     #   boto3
     #   botocore
 json-log-formatter==0.5.2
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 jsonschema==4.19.0
     # via ddtrace
 jsonschema-specifications==2023.7.1
@@ -261,11 +266,11 @@ keyring==24.2.0
 kombu[sqs]==5.3.5
     # via celery
 kubeconfig==1.1.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 kubernetes==25.3.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 kubernetes-asyncio==25.11.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 mako==1.2.4
     # via alembic
 markupsafe==2.1.3
@@ -313,7 +318,7 @@ numpy==1.24.4
 oauthlib==3.2.2
     # via requests-oauthlib
 orjson==3.9.15
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 packaging==23.1
     # via
     #   build
@@ -323,8 +328,6 @@ packaging==23.1
     #   marshmallow
     #   msal-extensions
     #   transformers
-pep517==0.13.0
-    # via build
 pg8000==1.29.8
     # via testing-postgresql
 pkginfo==1.9.6
@@ -339,13 +342,13 @@ prompt-toolkit==3.0.39
     # via click-repl
 protobuf==3.20.3
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   ddsketch
     #   ddtrace
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.3
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 py-xid==0.3.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 pyasn1==0.5.0
     # via
     #   pyasn1-modules
@@ -356,12 +359,12 @@ pycparser==2.21
     # via cffi
 pycurl==7.45.2
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   celery
     #   kombu
-pydantic==1.10.11
+pydantic==1.10.14
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   fastapi
 pygments==2.15.1
     # via
@@ -371,6 +374,8 @@ pyjwt[crypto]==2.8.0
     # via
     #   msal
     #   pyjwt
+pyproject-hooks==1.0.0
+    # via build
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
     # via
     #   botocore
@@ -382,7 +387,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.8.2
     #   pg8000
 python-multipart==0.0.7
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   starlette
 pyyaml==6.0.1
     # via
@@ -393,7 +398,7 @@ pyyaml==6.0.1
     #   starlette
     #   transformers
 quart==0.18.3
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 readme-renderer==40.0
     # via twine
 redis==4.6.0
@@ -406,7 +411,7 @@ regex==2023.10.3
     # via transformers
 requests==2.31.0
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   azure-core
     #   datadog
     #   docker
@@ -419,7 +424,7 @@ requests==2.31.0
     #   transformers
     #   twine
 requests-auth-aws-sigv4==0.7
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 requests-oauthlib==1.3.1
     # via kubernetes
 requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
@@ -427,7 +432,7 @@ requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
 rfc3986==2.0.0
     # via twine
 rich==12.6.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 rpds-py==0.10.0
     # via
     #   jsonschema
@@ -443,9 +448,9 @@ scramp==1.4.4
 secretstorage==3.3.3
     # via keyring
 sentencepiece==0.1.99
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 sh==1.14.3
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   azure-core
@@ -459,7 +464,7 @@ six==1.16.0
     #   python-dateutil
     #   tenacity
 smart-open==5.2.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 smmap==5.0.0
     # via
     #   gitdb
@@ -472,48 +477,50 @@ sniffio==1.3.0
     #   httpx
 sqlalchemy[asyncio]==2.0.4
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   alembic
+    #   sqlalchemy
 sse-starlette==1.6.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 sseclient-py==1.7.2
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 starlette[full]==0.36.3
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   fastapi
     #   sse-starlette
+    #   starlette
 stringcase==1.2.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 tblib==2.0.0
     # via celery
 tenacity==6.2.0
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   ddtrace
 testing-common-database==2.0.3
     # via testing-postgresql
 testing-postgresql==1.3.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 tokenizers==0.15.2
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   transformers
 tomli==2.0.1
     # via
     #   build
     #   hypercorn
-    #   pep517
+    #   pyproject-hooks
 tqdm==4.65.0
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   huggingface-hub
     #   transformers
     #   twine
 transformers==4.38.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 twine==3.7.1
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 types-awscrt==0.16.23
     # via
     #   botocore-stubs
@@ -566,9 +573,9 @@ urllib3==1.26.16
     #   kubernetes-asyncio
     #   requests
 uvicorn==0.17.6
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 uvloop==0.17.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
+    # via -r model-engine/requirements.in
 vine==5.1.0
     # via
     #   amqp
@@ -590,7 +597,7 @@ xmltodict==0.13.0
     # via ddtrace
 yarl==1.9.2
     # via
-    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   -r model-engine/requirements.in
     #   aiohttp
 zipp==3.16.0
     # via
diff --git a/model-engine/tests/unit/conftest.py b/model-engine/tests/unit/conftest.py
index 4b57afa1d..fd6b9f0ea 100644
--- a/model-engine/tests/unit/conftest.py
+++ b/model-engine/tests/unit/conftest.py
@@ -3383,6 +3383,48 @@ def build_endpoint_request_async_custom(
     return build_endpoint_request
 
 
+@pytest.fixture
+def build_endpoint_request_async_zipartifact_highpri(
+    test_api_key: str, model_bundle_3: ModelBundle
+) -> BuildEndpointRequest:
+    build_endpoint_request = BuildEndpointRequest(
+        model_endpoint_record=ModelEndpointRecord(
+            id="test_model_endpoint_id_3",
+            name="test_model_endpoint_name_3",
+            created_by=test_api_key,
+            created_at=datetime(2022, 1, 4),
+            last_updated_at=datetime(2022, 1, 4),
+            metadata={},
+            creation_task_id="test_creation_task_id",
+            endpoint_type=ModelEndpointType.ASYNC,
+            destination="test_destination",
+            status=ModelEndpointStatus.READY,
+            current_model_bundle=model_bundle_3,
+            owner=test_api_key,
+        ),
+        high_priority=True,
+        deployment_name=f"{test_api_key}-test_model_endpoint_name_3",
+        aws_role="default",
+        results_s3_bucket="test_s3_bucket",
+        child_fn_info=None,
+        post_inference_hooks=None,
+        labels=dict(team="test_team", product="test_product"),
+        min_workers=1,
+        max_workers=3,
+        per_worker=2,
+        cpus=1,
+        gpus=0,
+        memory="1G",
+        gpu_type=None,
+        storage=None,
+        optimize_costs=True,
+        broker_type=BrokerType.SQS,
+        default_callback_url=None,
+        default_callback_auth=None,
+    )
+    return build_endpoint_request
+
+
 @pytest.fixture
 def build_endpoint_request_sync_custom(
     test_api_key: str, model_bundle_3: ModelBundle
diff --git a/model-engine/tests/unit/infra/services/test_live_endpoint_builder_service.py b/model-engine/tests/unit/infra/services/test_live_endpoint_builder_service.py
index bf568c9a9..a0e876eb7 100644
--- a/model-engine/tests/unit/infra/services/test_live_endpoint_builder_service.py
+++ b/model-engine/tests/unit/infra/services/test_live_endpoint_builder_service.py
@@ -102,8 +102,11 @@ def set_env_vars():
     live_endpoint_builder_service.ECR_AWS_PROFILE = "default"
     live_endpoint_builder_service.GIT_TAG = "test_tag"
     live_endpoint_builder_service.ENV = "test_env"
+    live_endpoint_builder_service.WORKSPACE_PATH = ".."
     live_endpoint_builder_service.open = mock_open()
     live_endpoint_builder_service.os.mkdir = Mock()
+    live_endpoint_builder_service.open_wrapper = mock_open()
+    live_endpoint_builder_service.tempfile.mkstemp = Mock(return_value=["", ""])
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
@@ -114,6 +117,7 @@ async def test_build_endpoint(
     build_endpoint_request_async_runnable_image: BuildEndpointRequest,
     build_endpoint_request_sync_runnable_image: BuildEndpointRequest,
     build_endpoint_request_streaming_runnable_image: BuildEndpointRequest,
+    build_endpoint_request_async_zipartifact_highpri: BuildEndpointRequest,
     endpoint_builder_service_empty_docker_built: LiveEndpointBuilderService,
     endpoint_builder_service_empty_docker_not_built: LiveEndpointBuilderService,
     fake_model_endpoint_cache_repository: ModelEndpointCacheRepository,
@@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ async def test_build_endpoint(
             build_endpoint_request_async_runnable_image,
             build_endpoint_request_sync_runnable_image,
             build_endpoint_request_streaming_runnable_image,
+            build_endpoint_request_async_zipartifact_highpri,
         ]:
             fake_monitoring_metrics_gateway.reset()
             repo.add_model_endpoint_record(request.model_endpoint_record)
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index f6e4d22cd..f785f8de0 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ ipython==8.12.0  # 8.12.0 is the last version to support Python 3.8
 isort==5.12.0
 mypy==1.3.0
 pip-tools==7.0.0
-poetry==1.5.1
-pre-commit==3.3.3
\ No newline at end of file
+poetry==1.8.2
+pre-commit==3.3.3