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Construction on a new $13.5 million, 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility began in the 1800-block at Fort McCoy in April 2018.
Workers with contractor L.S. Black Constructors of St. Paul, Minn., have already broken ground and have infrastructure work started, said Nathan Butts, contract oversight representative with the Fort McCoy Project Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
“As of early May, they’ve put in some of the building footings and concrete foundation walls,” Butts said. “They also have completed some work for the utilities for the structure.”
Though the contract was awarded in November 2017, the contractor wasn’t able to get to work until winter finally ended, Butts said.
“They’re working hard on the project now,” he said. “The project completion date is set for October 2019.”
According to the contract scope of work, the new facility will be built with food preparation and cooking areas; an entrance/control area; and serving, dining, dishwashing, administration, and locker areas. It will also have a state-of-the-art waste-disposal system, a receiving and loading dock, cold and dry storage, and more.
Butts said building a dining facility is different than building other types of facilities and generally takes longer. “These facilities require lots of specialty equipment, which means additional time is needed to build the connections and lines for that equipment into the infrastructure,” he said.
Fort McCoy Food Service Manager Andy Pisney of the Logistics Readiness Center Supply and Services Division said the new dining facility is much needed and will increase food-service capabilities. Pisney’s office oversees the food-service contract for Fort McCoy dining facilities.
“When this is done, it will be more of a unit-operated dining facility,” Pisney said. “It will really work well for those larger units who currently might sign out two or three of our World War II-era facilities to feed their troops. Now they’ll only have to sign out one facility.”
The new facility is being built on several acres of land. It will have a large parking lot and plenty of space for customers.
Pisney said this facility will be the fifth brick-and-mortar dining facility on post.
“There are also plans to build another dining facility in between the 2400 and 2500 blocks on the cantonment area,” Butts said.
“The contract for that project should be awarded soon, and construction could even begin this year as well.”
Pisney said that as these newer facilities get built, the older and smaller facilities that units use now will eventually go away.
“That’s all part of the installation’s master plan at (Directorate of Public Works),” Pisney said. “Ten years ago, a lot of these newer dining facilities were just a part of that plan, but now it’s great to see them being built and that plan coming to fruition.”
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at www.mccoy.army.mil, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”
| Date Taken: | 05.09.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 05.09.2018 10:05 |
| Story ID: | 276286 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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