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Camp John Paul Jones
Award of Merit: Institutional
In 1998, the U.S. Navy initiated a $787 million Recapitalization
Program at the Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes, Ill.,
with the goal of ensuring superior facilities.
Camp John Paul Jones is located on a 48.7-acre site and was
the largest design-build project ever undertaken by the U.S.
Navy Recruit Training Command.
The project included site master planning; design services for
architecture, engineering, site infrastructure and landscaping;
and construction of seven integrated trainer-barracks.
Site development involved a network of roads, sidewalks and
underground utility distributions systems, including for storm
water, potable water, sewer, electric power, steam/condensate
and site lighting.
Each three-story barracks encompasses about 172,000 sq. ft.
and consists of 12 sleeping compartments-four on each floor-housing
1,056 recruits each; dining and galley facilities; and integrated
training classrooms. Each sleeping compartment has an accompanying
toilet and shower facility.
Overall, the camp houses, feeds and trains between 7,500 and
10,500 recruits each day or about 50,000 recruits each year.
Accommodating Recruits
The most significant issue was overall site management as
construction of each barrack was completed and turned over
to the Navy.
Recruits occupied a barrack within a month after the Navy
accepted a building. As a result, a significant amount of
construction and related traffic was sharing a site with Navy
recruits for more than two years.
Another major issue was the construction of a railroad underpass.
Because the line provided daily freight service to local businesses
during the week, the construction of the bridge over the underpass
had to be completed over a weekend when there was no rail
service.
A project goal was to support the Navy's training mission
by accelerating completion of each barrack.
Because of the repetitive nature of the construction and lessons
learned from completion of earlier phases of work, the team
was able to accelerate the completion of each barrack. The
first barrack delivered, P732, was completed on time as scheduled
on Jan. 25, 2004, but the last barrack, P738, was completed
more than 30 days early.
Jury Comments: "The look is better-than-average quality
for the military.
That's the Navy's only basic training facility. Every recruit
passes through there, and they did a nice job."
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