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Shaw AFB Express – Image Update 2.0

The Jenkins Group designed the Express 2.0 image update at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES). The Shaw AFB Express is a convenience store with fuel pumps, housed in a single-story building of about 12,500 square feet built around 2003. It has a vestibule, a sales floor, a merchandise processing area, an auto service shop, and a walk-in cooler and freezer. The 2.0 program relocates the main entrance to face the fuel pumps, adds an in-line checkout with a queue line, replaces the snack avenue counters and equipment, and updates the restrooms, break room and office spaces. New manufactured cooler and freezer boxes are added on the exterior, and existing polished concrete floors are prepared for re-polishing.

AAFES hired The Jenkins Group directly for architect and engineer services. The firm surveyed the store in November 2022 and issued design submittals at 35, 95 and 100 percent, followed by a construction issue set in August 2024. McCoy & Howard Consulting Engineers designed the mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems, and Martin White & Griffis Structural Engineers handled the structure at the new entrance and the openings cut into the masonry wall. The Express keeps trading during construction, so the phasing plan splits the work into an exterior additions and new checkout phase and a retail sales phase, about 120 days in all, with demolition and floor grinding held to non-operating hours. The drawings coordinate AAFES-furnished equipment with contractor-installed work. Exterior masonry is cleaned and resealed, and the new storefront and doors match the store's dark bronze finish.