Photo Story: Fort McCoy’s brigade headquarters construction project continues at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | The construction area of a transient training brigade headquarters in the 1600 block on the cantonment area is shown Dec. 6, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis. A contract, totaling $11,964,432.87, was awarded June 9, 2022, to L.S. Black Constructors to build the fiscal year 2022 Transient Training Brigade Headquarters project at Fort McCoy. Construction operations began in August 2022. Location of construction is just across the street from where the same contractor has been building two new transient training troop barracks buildings in the same block. According to the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works, the brigade headquarters project is based on the denser, more consolidated footprints of Fort McCoy’s Troop Housing Area Development Plan. The project will include the latest, state-of-the-art systems for fire protection and alarms and video surveillance as well as Energy Monitoring Control Systems. Also, anti-terrorism and force protection measures will be incorporated. And throughout the entire project, sustainability and energy efficient technology will be incorporated. Overall, including this building and the two barracks already built, nine new buildings are planned for the entire 1600 block. The plan is to build four barracks buildings, the three 20,000-square-foot brigade headquarters buildings, and two 160-room officer quarters. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is coordinating the project. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

12.31.2023

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                               

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Decent weather and more construction progress on the $11.96 million transient training brigade headquarters project at Fort McCoy helped the project to reach 94 percent completion — up 4 percent from mid-November, according to a recent update from Ken Green with the Army Corps of Engineers Program Office at Fort McCoy.

As recent as early June, the project was at 40 percent complete, and at early October it was 80 percent done. Now the project is at 94 percent done as of Dec. 8, Green said in his weekly Dec. 8 update.

Green stated in his update that current work included interior finishes; mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work; exterior finishing work, continued connection of solar panels, and other types of wrap-up work.

He even noted some floors were getting their first coat of wax.

Overall, the contract for the project, totaling nearly $12 million, was awarded June 9, 2022, and construction operations began a more than a year ago in August 2022. The current contract completion date is still set for February 2024.

This project is the first of three planned brigade headquarters buildings projects, said Master Planner Brian Harrie with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works (DPW) in a past news article. The plan is to build four barracks buildings — two are already completed and a third has started, the three 20,000-square-foot brigade headquarters buildings, and two 160-room officer quarters.

Harrie also said in previous articles that this project is based on the denser, more consolidated footprints of Fort McCoy’s Troop Housing Area Development Plan which states fewer, multiple story buildings allow facilities/functions to be sited closer together, allowing for a more walkable training environment, as well as saving money on utilities.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”

Also try downloading the Digital Garrison app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”

• Date Taken: 12.31.2023
• Date Posted: 12.31.2023 23:28
• Story ID: 461156
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US