The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded the $477.5 million contract for an office and laboratory design-build project in Aberdeen, Md., to Turner Construction Company and its subsidiary, Tompkins Builders, in a joint venture with Grunley Construction and Kinsley Construction. This award is part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program and one of the first BRAC projects of this magnitude and scope.
Construction on the highly technical Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Installation is scheduled to begin in early 2008. Covering approximately one million sf, the campus will have nine buildings, including administrative facilities, laboratories, and technology-rich training facilities. The complex will have more than 5,000 civilian employees when work is completed in September of 2010. The design-build partner for the project is Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP.