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Military / US Army Completed February 1999

A twelve-month project, delivered in nine.

Taft, Florida · US Naval Facilities Engineering
Taft US Army Reserve Center facility
Taft US Army Reserve US Army · February 1999
Contract
$2,000,000
Site
40 acres
Duration
9 mo. (from 12 mo.)
Architect
KBJ Architects, Inc.
Client
Naval Facilities Engineering
Position
Project Superintendent
Project brief

Two warehouses. Six drive-through bays. One very short schedule.

The Taft US Army Reserve Center consists of two pre-engineered warehouses with bi-level loading docks, a conversion of an existing three-bay single-access vehicle maintenance facility into a six-bay drive-through, double-access facility with support space, and the renovation and expansion of existing asphalt parking areas.

Built on a 40-acre site — part of the redevelopment of the Navy's Officer Training Command and base housing area — the construction is slab-on-grade with reinforced, brick-faced, load-bearing CMU walls, interior partitions, steel bar joists, and a metal deck roof.

This 12-month, $2 million project was built in a record 9 months — three months ahead of schedule — by utilizing true CPM and aggressive front-end scheduling techniques.

The schedule compression on this job became a reference case for the firm. Critical-path methodology, applied with conviction at the start of the project, cut a quarter of the calendar out of the work.