CONCORD, Mass. – A new three-story, 66-room, 25,000-square-foot military dormitory will be constructed at the Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Mass., under the terms of a $12,595,000.00 design-build contract issued recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District.
Work will be accomplished by BBIX, LLC, of Boston, Mass. Design work is scheduled to begin in September 2016 with construction to start in the spring of 2017. The project will take approximately 24 months to complete. The contract was awarded on Aug. 8, 2016.
The existing airmen dormitories at buildings 1510 and 1511 are rapidly deteriorating and require immediate replacement. Buildings 1510 and 1511 will be demolished as part of this project.
“At full capacity, the new 25,000-square-foot dormitory will provide living quarters to up to 66 airmen and women on the base,” said Project Manager Mike Tuttle, of the Corps’ New England District, Programs and Project Management Division in Concord, Mass.
The proposed building superstructure will be load-bearing, reinforced, cast-in-place, insulated concrete exterior walls. Exterior wall finishes will be a combination of masonry veneer at the lower level and Exterior Insulation Finishing System (EIFS) above. The roof will be a light-gauge metal frame carrying a sloped, standing-seam metal roof assembly with full perimeter gutters.
The dormitory will reuse, with new stripping and handicap spaces, the existing parking lot to the east while maintaining current traffic patterns and does not add significant paving area or other impermeable surfaces.
The project will be managed by the Corps and all work will be accomplished under the supervision of a Corps’ Quality Assurance Representative to assure compliance with contract requirements. For more information about contract solicitations or contract awards visit the website at: www.nae.usace.army.mil/BusinessWithUs/Contracting.aspx.
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