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Prize: Award Hangars of plane
Value: 69 million dollars
Location: Current, family
Customer: US Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard has touched Whiting-Turner to design and build two new membrane voltage hangals and the facilities associated with Air Station Barbers Point in Kapolei, Hawai’i, according to a statement on September 16. The cost of the work is about $ 69 million.
As part of the contract, Whiting-Turner will build two completely closed hangars that will provide protected installations by the weather to repair, service and refuge the Search and Rescue aircraft of Super HCULES HC-130J Super Hercules assigned to the air station, according to the statement.
Currently, base facilities can only partially close one of the massive HC-130J aircraft, which have a wingspan of approximately 133 feet. This leaves the four planes exposed to the corrosive environment of salt water.
In addition to the meteorological shelter, the new hangars will provide long -term protection, improve maintenance capabilities and support critical heavy air transport missions and long -range maritime surveillance patrols in the 12.2 million square kilometers known as the Oceania District, according to the Coast Guard.
The Center for the Design and Construction of Facilities, a field command of the Executive Office of the Shore Costera Guard Program, is responsible for the planning, design and execution of large construction and recapture projects of the facilities of the coast, according to the statement.
The additional facilities that the construction equipment is addressed to build include an aviation material office, aircraft maintenance shops, office space for air station staff, a locker room and cargo cages near hangars, according to the Coast Guard.
Construction at the Barbers Point base is scheduled to begin by 2026 and is expected to be completed by the beginning of 2028, according to the statement.
This is not the first Whiting-Turner point that works with the Coast Guard. Baltimore builder also recently won a job Modernize the base of the Coast Guard in Seattle. The contract for his work is worth up to $ 137 million. As part of this project, the contractor will widen and update the moorings and demolish an existing building.
