Photo Essay: Work continues on seven new military family housing units at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Workers with contractor Relyant Global LLC of Maryville, Tenn., continue work on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-led project Feb. 25, 2020, to build seven new military family housing units at the South Post Housing area at Fort McCoy, Wis. A contract of $6.6 million was awarded to Relyant Global in May 2019, and the notice to proceed with work was acknowledged in June 2019. A project completion date for the housing should be sometime in summer 2020. The construction includes building three four-bedroom and four three-bedroom houses. Work includes site preparation work, utilities and pavement construction, and electrical and natural-gas systems installation. As of Jan. 31, 2020, work was approximately 36 percent complete with basement work and building framing completed. The Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Housing Division manages military housing at the installation. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

02.26.2020

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                             

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Workers with contractor Relyant Global LLC of Maryville, Tenn., continue work on a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-led project Feb. 25, 2020, to build seven new military family housing units at the South Post Housing area at Fort McCoy, Wis.

A contract of $6.6 million was awarded to Relyant Global in May 2019, and the notice to proceed with work was acknowledged in June 2019.

A project completion date for the housing should be sometime in summer 2020.

The construction includes building three four-bedroom and four three-bedroom houses, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

Work includes site preparation work, utilities and pavement construction, and electrical and natural-gas systems installation.

As of Jan. 31, 2020, work was approximately 36 percent complete with basement work and building framing completed.

The Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Housing Division manages military housing at the installation.

Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.

The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services each year since 1984.

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

• Date Taken: 02.26.2020
• Date Posted: 02.26.2020 12:33
• Story ID: 363933
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US