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New Military Prison Breaks Ground At Ft. LeavenworthPosted on: 07-MAY-08FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Danna Guffey (816) 391.2584 danna.guffey@jedunn.com
The facility, being built on a 40-acre site, will house 483 beds and include a warehouse, an engineering and maintenance building, and a geothermal well field for ground source heating and cooling.
The project will make use of time and money-saving methods in the actual construction, said David Manka, resident engineer at Fort Leavenworth. The exterior will be built using precast panels, he said, and individual cells laid in place, painted and with all interior features already in place.
Brent Ferguson, senior project manager for JE Dunn Construction, the general contractor on the project, said the Fort Leavenworth project has the added dimension of requiring anti-terrorism force protection. This means the structure and windows are designed to withstand a blast from a certain distance, he said.
Hayes Seay Mattern & Mattern Inc. of Roanoke, Virginia is the architect for the project.
The $84.4 million facility is expected to be complete in 2010. » Back to Press and News Archive |
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Ground has been broken on the new Regional Correctional Facility at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. The facility will replace smaller military prisons at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Fort Knox in Kentucky and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. The consolidation is being done as part of the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure program.