Middletown company gets latest BRAC contract
Friday, January 02, 2009
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Better Built Construction Services Inc., a Middletown-based construction company, has been awarded one of the last remaining contracts to build facilities for programs moving to Wright-Patterson by September 2011.
The company was chosen for an $11.6 million contract to design and build a 96-room, three-story dormitory for students who will attend the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. The Army Corps of Engineers, the contract manager for the construction at Wright-Patterson, awarded the contract on Wednesday, Dec. 31.
The project is part of $332 million in construction planned, or already under way, at Wright-Patterson to accommodate programs that Washington decided in 2005 to transfer there as other bases are closed in the nation's latest round of military consolidations.
In April, the government awarded the largest of the BRAC contracts — $194.5 million for construction of the Human Performance Wing complex — to a joint venture of Dayton contractor Butt Construction Co. and partner Archer Western Contractors Ltd., part of the Chicago-based Walsh Group. That complex will house aerospace medicine and human effectiveness programs, which will move to the base and be incorporated with related programs under the Air Force's 711th Human Performance Wing formed in March.
A $40 million contract for a remaining project, to build a facility at the Air Force Research Laboratory sensors complex, is to be awarded in March.
