Fort Devens gets New Range Control Building
Devens, MA
For the past 10 years, GNCB has provided full-scope geotechnical engineering services for the Louisville, KY Division of the Army Corps of Engineers and its architect RSP Architects of Minneapolis, MN. The projects, located in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, have ranged from full-scale 30-acre parcels for a new Army Reserve Center (ARC), to building additions at various military locations.
GNCB’s geotechnical work for the new Range Control building at Fort Devens included preparation of an RFP for final building design and construction. The RFP allowed the Army Corps to solicit bids and construction of the project by a design-build team. GNCB undertook a program of test borings and laboratory soil testing to characterize the site subsurface conditions; the results of this work were summarized in a Subsurface Data Report that will be provided to competing design-build teams. GNCB prepared a separate design memorandum for the RSP architectural team, to enable their preparation of appropriate preliminary contract drawings for bidding.
At the Fort Devens site, subsurface conditions consisted of a deep deposit of granular outwash soil with groundwater over 20 ft. deep. The new building will be supported by a shallow spread footing foundation system and a concrete slab-on-grade ground floor.
