Photo Essay: Construction of new $13.5 million dining facility continues at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Contractors work on a new $13.5 million, 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility Sept. 6, 2018, in the 1800 block at Fort McCoy, Wis. The project, coordinated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is being constructed by contractor L.S. Black Constructors of St. Paul, Minn., and is supposed to be completed in 2019. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

09.12.2018

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                               

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Contractors worked on a new $13.5 million, 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility in early September in the 1800 block at Fort McCoy, Wis.

The project, coordinated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is being constructed by contractor L.S. Black Constructors of St. Paul, Minn., and is supposed to be completed in 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.

Army Corps of Engineer officials 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,” said Nathan Butts, contract oversight representative with the Army Corps of Engineers.

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.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at www.mccoy.army.mil, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”

• Date Taken: 09.12.2018
• Date Posted: 09.12.2018 15:20
• Story ID: 292455
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US