I would like to announce the award of the Human Performance Wing (HPW) Complex design/build contract (W912QR-08-C-0014) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH to the Joint Venture of Archer Western and Butt Construction in the amount of $195,074,000. This project will design and construct the Human Performance Wing complex - approximately 679,000 SF. The project consists of two major facilities and ancillary facilities. One is approximately 200,000 SF, 3-stories, containing high bay area, industrial space, dry laboratory space, NAMRL Disorientation Device, space for Dynamic Flight Simulator (centrifuge) and hypobaric (altitude) chambers. A second is approximately 450,000 SF, 4-stories, containing space for the Aerospace School of Medicine, medical clinic space, administration space and dry and wet laboratories. The Project also includes an approximate 9,000 SF addition to an existing vivarium, a detached approximate 1,500 SF Entomology Laboratory Building, and a remote training site.

Primary facility(s) includes administration space, Secure Space, classrooms, laboratories, radioactive storage, liquid oxygen & nitrogen storage, high bay areas, medical clinic space, space for Dynamic Flight Simulator (centrifuge) and hypobaric (altitude) chambers, auditorium and conference areas. Laboratory space includes medical research lab space, radiological, acoustical, visual, vestibular, cognitive, psychopharmacological and thermal-stress lab space, and high tech research lab space.

The following eight individual projects comprise the HPW Complex:

1. ZHTV083104 Radiation Calibration Facility

2. ZHTV083105 AFIOH Facility

3. ZHTV083106 AFRL/HE (Mesa)

4. ZHTV083107 Naval Aerospace Medical Research Lab

5. ZHTV083108 AFRL/HE (Brooks)

6. ZHTV083110 USAFSAM Consulting Svc

7. ZHTV083111 USAFSAM

8. ZHTV083118 Dining Facility

Groundbreaking ceremony has been set for Monday 16 June at 1000 hours.

Dewey W. Rissler, PE, PMP
Chief Air Force Section PPPMD