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A new light rail base, the Operations and Maintenance Facility East, has been constructed in Bellevue, Washington. Sound Transit, the company that constructed the new facility will open it soon.
Navy awards contract for Camp Blaz EOD compound
Staff reports
The Navy this week awarded a $25 million contract for a project related to the Guam military buildup.
Honolulu-based Hensel Phelps Construction Co. will design and build a Combined Explosives Ordnance Disposal compound at Camp Blaz, which is the new Marine Corps base under construction in Dededo.
The project has an expected completion date of October 2023.
Marines from Okinawa and elsewhere are scheduled to arrive on Guam in significant numbers, beginning 2025, after Camp Blaz is completed. The base was officially activated Oct. 1, 2020, and an activation ceremony is expected in 2021.
“Our project team is motivated to support our Marines and their vital mission and we look forward to providing a world class, state of the art EOD Facility,” said Mark Nakagawa, NAVFAC Pacific DC project manager.
$24.5M contract for fuel station construction at Camp Blaz
Staff Reports
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. will design and build a fuel station at the Dededo base.
“We are pleased to achieve this on-time and on-budget construction award for the Central Fuel Station at the new Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz,” said NAVFAC Pacific Guam Program Management Office Director Will Boudra. “This is the fourth of 18 projects to be contracted this fiscal year at Camp Blaz.”
The work to be performed provides for the design and construction of a central fuel station to serve the Marine Corps base and to support its tactical activities. The project will include fueling stations, a fuel storage facility, a fuel administration building and a generator building.
February 25, 2021
A Washington State University student team took first place in the recent Associated Schools of Construction competition, the largest construction management competition in the U.S.
Despite impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and a virtual format, almost 1,100 students from 47 universities and 19 states participated. The competition requires that students solve two rounds of problems in two, ten-hour days that included virtual meetings with the problem sponsor.
A WSU team, coached by Jason Peschel, scholarly associate professor in the School of Design and Construction and sponsored by Howard S. Wright Construction, won first place in the commercial category competing against 12 other teams. The students used construction management skills such as scheduling, estimating, site logistics, site safety, and technical writing to develop a proposal for a real-life construction problem. The student team included Meghan Smith, Hunter Hohman, Kali Saueressig, Cory Condon, A