Government

Fort Campbell Commissary

The Fort Campbell Commissary is a new commissary for the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The Jenkins Group's work began with a design charrette in 2008 that studied five building sites and several construction alternatives. The preferred option was a new commissary separate from the main Exchange, developed from DeCA's Store of the Future prototype for a Class 5 store and adjusted with input from Fort Campbell store management to suit local needs. The resulting plan comes to about 121,000 square feet. The firm then designed the building with a team of engineering consultants, taking it through an intermediate design submittal scheduled for March 2009 and on to construction documents. In 2010 and 2011 the work continued with a new DeCA standard décor package, revisions to the bakery and deli layout, and a new exterior sign.

The Jenkins Group also carried out the Post-Construction Validation Assessment (PCVA) of the completed store. On January 23 and 24, 2013, the firm and local store personnel walked the commissary, with DeCA representatives from Fort Lee and Lackland Air Force Base joining by teleconference. A 12-month warranty inspection took place at the same time. The team used DeCA's standard PCVA checklist for a room-by-room review and interviewed the store director, department heads, and staff. The report went to DeCA headquarters in February 2013. It describes a store of about 121,000 square feet with a 63,000-square-foot sales area and records observations for each area, from meat, produce, and bakery/deli to the front end, warehouse, and roof. It notes that overall lighting levels were good and the polished concrete floors were very well done. The assessment was performed under DeCA contract HDEC03-12-D-0011.

Validation is where design intent meets the building that actually got built.