Photo Essay: Construction of new barracks under way at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | An area of the 1600 block of the cantonment area of the installation is shown May 7, 2020, where a new multi-million dollar barracks is being built at Fort McCoy, Wis. Contractor L.S. Black Constructors was awarded a $20.6 million contract to build the barracks in September 2019. The planned completion date is currently August 2021. The planned barracks will be different than the traditional barracks that are located throughout the installation. This new building will be four stories and be able to house 400 people in approximately 60,000 square feet. The project also is the first of eight new buildings planned for the entire 1600 block. The plan is to build three more barracks with the same specifications, three 20,000-square-foot brigade headquarters buildings, and one 160-room officer quarters. This is an Army Corps of Engineers-managed project. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

05.07.2020

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                              

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

As of May 7, contractor L.S. Black Constructors has been at work for more than a month on a new transient training barracks in Fort McCoy's 1600 block.

A $20.6 million contract was awarded to L.S. Black in September 2019 to build the new barracks, said Ken Green with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resident Office at Fort McCoy. The planned completion date is currently August 2021.

Green said that as of April 24, construction was 4 percent complete. Sub-contractors were grading, excavating, duct bank work for power/communications; started working on footings for a mock wall.

The planned barracks will be different than the traditional barracks that are located throughout the installation. This new building will be four stories and able to house 400 people in approximately 60,000 square feet, Green said. It will be built with the latest in construction materials and include state-of-the-art physical security and energy-saving measures.

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: 05.07.2020
• Date Posted: 05.07.2020 11:08
• Story ID: 369419
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US