Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Location: Fort Dix, New Jersey

Our firm developed an installation design guide (IDG) to define design criteria, building and site development standards, and architectural character throughout the Fort Dix installation. The IDG will aid planners, architects, engineers, and facility managers in making consistent, cost-effective decisions during future construction and renovation projects. Topics addressed include minimizing impacts on the environment; color schemes and materials selection; and maintaining a balance between aesthetics, costs, energy conservation, and materials and systems durability. The proposed solutions were responsive to regional and local architectural style, cultural factors, and environmental conditions.

Project Elements:

• Standardization of design criteria
• In-depth study of existing buildings and current projects
• Field survey, site survey, and photographic documentation
• Interviews with client staff
• Regulation and code compliance
• Review of historic architectural resources
• Review of mechanical, electrical, architectural/civil, landscaping, and fire/life safety disciplines

Client: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Location: Fort Dix, New Jersey

Gannett Fleming provided engineering services and prepared permitting for the re-use of wastewater effluent on the Fountain Green Golf Course. The golf course’s existing irrigation system was disconnected from a potable water system and connected instead to an effluent line from the Fort Dix tertiary wastewater treatment plant.

The system required on-line turbidity and ultraviolet (UV) intensity meters, along with a signal transmitter to automatically shut off or deactivate the golf course irrigation system. The project began with a field review to select a route for the pipeline that minimized utility conflicts, roadway disturbance, and wetlands issues. The plant effluent was evaluated for various parameters, including total suspended solids and coliforms, to verify compliance with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) regulations. The design also included additional disinfection to meet NJDEP coliform criteria (two mpn), booster pump and piping modifications, a pipeline to the golf course with air release chambers, provisions for system winterization, on-line controls, and accommodations for future expansion.

Special Features:

• Re-use of wastewater effluent
• Additional disinfection to meet NJDEP criteria
• Turbidity and UV meters
• Automatic shut-off
• Modifications to pump and piping
• Air release chambers
• Provisions for winterization
• Accommodations for future expansion

Client: Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Location: Washington, D.C.

Our firm performed architectural/engineering design-build services for the 22,000-square-foot Nanoscience Laboratory facility. The state-of-the-art research facility is dedicated to the study of materials at the atomic and molecular levels. (The word "nano" means 10-9; thus, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter.) The facility's mission is to provide high-quality measurement with minimal influence by sources of noise. As a result, facility specifications were extremely stringent. The rate of progress in nanoscience also required the facility to be easily and economically adaptable to future ventures.

The design-build team addressed stormwater management by treating runoff from rooftops and newly paved areas on campus. The site was graded to achieve sheet flow into the facility and rooftop collection and piping. These bioretention facilities were integrated into the plan using the "green" concept, outwardly appearing to be landscaped planting beds featuring perennials, shrubs, and trees.

Additional Sustainable Features:

• Recycled steel manufactured in the U.S.
• Sustainable design, including bioretention
• Efficient cooling/heating and plumbing systems
• Reinforced concrete contained at least 30 percent recycled steel

Client: U.S. Property and Fiscal Office of Pennsylvania
Location: Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming provided complete architectural, structural, civil, geotechnical, environmental, mechanical, and electrical engineering design services for a bed-down facility for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 148th Air Support Operations Squadron. The project involved the design of 34,100 square feet of new facilities.

The functional areas designed for this facility include command and control, mission training, radio and vehicle maintenance, weapons storage, planning and administrative support, communications, military testing, and storage, as well as a conference area, classrooms, and a break room. In addition, cold storage sheds to house approximately 24 high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles and 14 M-101 aircraft trailers were designed.

Features:

• A 16,600-square-foot training facility
• A 2,500-square-foot addition to an existing vehicle maintenance facility
• A 15,000-square-foot free-standing vehicle storage structures
• A 34,100-square-foot project area
• Registration with U.S. Green Building Council for LEED^® Silver certification

Services Provided:

• Architectural design
• Structural engineering
• Civil engineering
• Geotechnical engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Environmental engineering

Client: U.S. Property and Fiscal Office of Pennsylvania
Location: State College, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming is providing complete architectural, structural, civil, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical engineering design services for a new 22,500-square-foot training facility for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 112th Air Operations Squadron. The facility includes an operations training floor; a battle laboratory; a secure intelligence training room; classrooms; an auditorium; conference, communications, maintenance, military testing, arms vault, warehouse, and storage areas; a gymnasium; and a break room.

Features:

• A 22,500-square-foot training facility
• Site development for a 6.3-acre site
• Sustainable design features
• A 1,900-square-foot, 20-foot-high battle laboratory

Client: U.S. Property and Fiscal Office of Pennsylvania
Location: Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania

Our firm is providing complete architectural, structural, civil, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical engineering design services for a new 22,500-square-foot operations and training facility for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 201st Red Horse Squadron. The facility includes operations, engineering, base operating support, readiness, arms vault, combat arms training, logistics, medical, security contracting functions, training classrooms, administration, storage, planning, recruiting, conference, testing laboratory, medical, restroom/locker room, and communications areas.

Features:

• A 22,500-square-foot training facility
• Site development for a five-acre site
• A unit deployment control center
• A combat arms training area
• Sustainable design features

Client: Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Transportation Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA)
Location: Metro Washington, D.C.

SDDCTEA tasked Gannett Fleming to conduct a Transportation Management Plan (TMP) for Andrews and Bolling Air Force Bases. The purpose of this TMP was to assess vehicular and pedestrian travel, parking conditions, and transit services, as well as identify transportation needs for the future addition of personnel.

The TMP includes analysis of travel modes, trip timing, frequency and length, and travel routes. It was used to identify or validate alternate transportation needs and initiate an active plan to promote more efficient employee commuting patterns. The goal of the TMP is to reduce vehicular travel to the bases by encouraging alternative modes of transportation.

The project team developed a traffic model to estimate the decrease in delay, fuel, and emissions with various levels of vehicular travel reductions. It then outlined its multimodal recommendations, which aided the district in its base access planning efforts with state and local government entities.

The TMP was conducted in accordance with the National Capital Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan and the Federal Transportation Management Program Handbook. As a token of its appreciation for Gannett Fleming on this project, the Air Force District of Washington presented our firm with its organizational coin.

Goals of TMP:

• Outline steps to reduce single-occupant vehicle commuting
• Encourage reduction in vehicular trips through policies that:
• Support bicycle commuting
• Reward ridesharing
• Bolster transit use by encouraging new transit services and enhanced pedestrian environments
• Support alternate meeting/work venues, such as video teleconferencing and telecommuting
• Improve efficiency of vehicle movement entering, exiting, and within the base