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The fiscal year 2022-funded Transient Training Troop Barracks Project, also referred to as the South Barracks Project, has maintained its scheduled progress and stands at 25 percent complete as July 2024 begins.
Framework for the four-story, 60,000-plus square-foot barracks started at the end of January 2024 and has continued to steadily be built up by contractor BlindermanPower (Construction) who got the contract to build the facility in June 2023 at just over $28 million.
As of July 5, according to an update from Ken Green with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resident Office at Fort McCoy, construction progress was at 25 percent complete and the contractor has made progress on building walls and installing the roof and more.
Green’s previous update on June 28 states structural steel punch out continues as well as steel stud and exterior sheeting installation. Truss installation was also continuing as well as roof decking was going on. Spray foam also had started on imbeds and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing rough-in continued.
Previous news articles have stated that a notice to proceed with construction on this project was given on in late-September 2023. Overall, the statement of work for the project states the contractor will make the building be made of “permanent construction with reinforced concrete foundations; concrete floor slabs; structural steel frames; steel stud infill; masonry veneer walls; prefinished standing seam metal roofing; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning capabilities; plumbing; mechanical systems; and electrical systems. Supporting facilities include land clearing, concrete sidewalk paving, general site improvements, and utility connections.”
The building also is being built with the latest in construction materials and include state-of-the-art physical security and energy-saving measures. The contract duration is scheduled for completion in 780 calendar days, Green said.
“The current contract completion date is Oct. 2, 2025,” Green also wrote in the June 28 update.
Projects like this also play a part in supporting the economic impact to local economies around Fort McCoy. When looking back the last five years, Fort McCoy’s economic impact has continuously been $1 billion or higher every year to local economies. In FY 2019 it was $1.18 billion, all the way to FY 2023’s $1.38 billion.
In July 2023, Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Messenger spoke about the importance of the installation’s economic impact to the 17th Wisconsin Government Opportunities Business Conference that took place on post.
Messenger described how the installation’s vast training space and facilities attract training opportunities for many units to come to the post, which also affects economic impact. He also mentioned new construction.
“There’s 48,000 training acres and 3,000 cantonment acres,” Messenger said in a previous news article. “The importance of that means we put a lot of money into this thing. … That’s ... millions of dollars in contracts. That’s ... millions of dollars in new construction. It’s ... millions of dollars in payroll that we have here. And this is a driver of the economy. … It’s because of the integration that we have in the local community. And mainly when I say ‘local,’ I mean, this part of the region.”
And just two years ago, Stephen Sullivan, the Chief Financial Officer and Director for Resources, Installations, and Materiel for the Office of the Chief of the Army Reserve, visited Fort McCoy and said the post should continue to be a focus for the future for Reserve training and more.
“I think Fort McCoy is going to continue to be a key piece of the U.S. Army Reserve’s infrastructure that’s necessary to train and mobilize our forces,” Sullivan said in a 2022 news article. “And as I mentioned before, there’s a lot of overall pressure on availability of funding and a lot of competing priorities. So, when I talk about people, modernization, and readiness, it’s always about how we make sure that we fund all of these things appropriately.
“What I appreciate is like when I talked to the (Fort McCoy) staff and got a sense of how they’re being innovative, how they’re maximizing the use of training areas and finding places where you can do different types of training using the same training areas,” Sullivan said.
Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.”
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 nearly every 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.”
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: | 07.05.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 07.05.2024 16:12 |
| Story ID: | 475626 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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