Construction of new dining facility continues at Fort McCoy

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Contractors work on a new 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility Sept. 26, 2018, in the 2400 block at Fort McCoy, Wis. The project, coordinated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is being constructed by contractor L.S. Black Constructors of St. Paul, Minn., and is supposed to be completed in late 2019. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)  

FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES

10.24.2018

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                        

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Construction of a new dining facility in the 2400 block continues at Fort McCoy.

This is a new 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility and construction began in July.

The Louisville, Ky., office of USACE awarded a $12.3 million contract in May for the construction this facility, said Nathan Butts, contract oversight representative with the Fort McCoy Project Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The contract was awarded to L.S. Black Constructors Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., and is supposed to be completed in 2019.

According to the contract scope of work for each facility, the new facilities will be built with food preparation and cooking areas; an entrance/control area; and serving, dining, dishwashing, administration, and locker areas. It will also have a state-of-the-art waste-disposal system, a receiving and loading dock, cold and dry storage, and more.

Once completed, this dining facility will be the sixth brick-and-mortar dining facilities on post. Additionally, Army Corps of Engineer officials said building a dining facility is different than building other types of facilities and generally takes longer.

“These facilities require lots of specialty equipment, which means additional time is needed to build the connections and lines for that equipment into the infrastructure,” said Nathan Butts, contract oversight representative with the Army Corps of Engineers.

The facility is being built on several acres of land, Butts said. It will have a large parking lot and plenty of space for customers.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at www.mccoy.army.mil, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”

• Date Taken: 10.24.2018
• Date Posted: 10.24.2018 16:30
• Story ID: 297588
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WI, US