The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Mobile District recently awarded Hensel Phelps the Operational Support Facility project at MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida. The project involves construction of a 37,000-SF two-story cast-in-place Central Energy Plant that consolidates and provides all heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire suppression, fire alarm, mass notification, closed-circuit television, intrusion detection, generators and switchgears to support the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and its mission supporting special operations around the globe.
The project also includes the demolition of several existing buildings, construction of new roadways, and alteration of existing roadways to support new vehicle circulation and facility maintenance operations. Security gates and vehicular barriers will be installed to control access and maintain security standoff distances. The project has a construction schedule of 26 months and is scheduled to start on October 18, 2016.