Government

Tyndall AFB Munitions Storage Facility

The Zone 7 Munitions Storage 7000 Area at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, is a design-build munitions storage facility for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District. The project delivers six new buildings on four sites: administration facilities, an equipment repair shop, and precast concrete storage buildings. It is part of the base's rebuild after Hurricane Michael, and the solicitation describes the facilities as new buildings or rebuilds of buildings the storm damaged. The administration and shop buildings are brick with block backup walls on slab-on-grade floors, with steel bar-joist roofs, metal decks, and standing seam metal roofs. The exterior building systems use Miami-Dade hurricane-resistant products, and the design follows the sustainable and energy-efficient standards of UFC 1-200-02.

The Jenkins Group was the lead design professional, design manager and designer of record on the design-build team. The firm's own scope was architecture and interior design: the exterior envelope and interiors of the administration and shop buildings, their finishes, and the furniture, fixtures and equipment package used to buy the furnishings. It also coordinated and managed the mechanical, electrical, civil and landscape consultants. Starting from the USACE request-for-proposals design, the firm developed the documents through the Corps' staged reviews, answering comments in ProjNet/DrChecks and coordinating the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications. Peer reviews with the contractor at critical milestones let construction input shape the details before they were fixed. During construction the firm reviewed submittals, issued design clarifications and made site visits, and it closed the project out with record documents.