Balfour Beatty Construction and U.S. Marines hold opening ceremony for Wounded Warrior Hope and Care Center
October 07, 2011
Balfour Beatty Construction and the U.S. Marine Corps held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday for the new $31 million Wounded Warrior Headquarters and Hope and Care Center at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Several wounded Marines and sailors assigned to Wounded Warrior Battalion West were in attendance amidst an audience of more than 600 guests.
Construction on the two-building, design-build project began in April 2010. The facility will serve as the West Coast headquarters for the Marine’s Wounded Warrior program.
The Hope and Care Center is 30,995 square feet and includes a resource and recovery center, weight training center, outdoor amphitheater, therapeutic gardens, indoor therapy pool, outdoor lap pool, climbing wall and an 1/8 mile covered track. It also includes space for counseling, employment support, financial management, community orientation, training, and outreach programs.
The headquarters administration and multi-purpose facility is 9,354 square feet of space for administration and operations as well as multi-purpose space for a visitor waiting area and conference rooms. In addition, the offices are comprised of flexible components, easily modifiable for future office needs.
Both facilities are 100% ADA-compliant and were designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council . The buildings are designed to complement the community atmosphere created by the nearby Wounded Warrior Barracks, also completed by Balfour Beatty Construction earlier this year. That facility received the first-ever LEED Platinum certification for a U.S. Navy and/or U.S. Marine Corps project worldwide.
“Our primary focus was to create a holistic, integrated design process which provided the highest level sustainable quality achievable,” said
Sean Hulen, Balfour Beatty Construction vice president and project executive. “Combined with a design-build delivery method, the use of Building Information Modeling, or BIM, enhanced the LEED process by allowing the project team to quantify materials, minimize contingencies, and reduce waste generated on site.”
The sustainable design solutions are expected to reduce water usage by more than 84,000 gallons per year, and provide over $52,000 in energy savings, combined for both buildings.
All of the Wounded Warrior facilities were designed by architect Cass, Sowatsky, Chapman & Associates of San Diego. Balfour Beatty Construction staff working on the project includes
Sean Hulen, vice president;
Dave Christensen, general superintendent;
Sean Phillips, superintendent;
Charles McArthur, senior project manager;
Matt Wathen, project engineer;
Joseph Mansour, quality control manager and
Don Sutton, site safety health officer.
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About Balfour Beatty Construction
A leader in the U.S. commercial construction industry, Balfour Beatty Construction provides general contracting, at-risk construction management, and design-build services through more than 2,400 professionals nationwide. For the past two years, the company has been cited as a Top 10 Green Builder by Engineering-News Record and as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For® by FORTUNE magazine. The company is part of London-based Balfour Beatty plc, a global leader in professional services, construction services, support services, and infrastructure investment, with more than $18 billion in annual revenues. To learn more about the company and its subsidiaries—Charter Builders, Howard S. Wright and SpawMaxwell—visit balfourbeattyus.com.
In the southwest, formerly known as Barnhart Balfour Beatty, Balfour Beatty Construction (License #439407) is one of the largest education builders in the country, with extensive experience on military projects and an award-winning portfolio of government and healthcare projects. To learn more, visit
http://www.balfourbeattyus.com/southwest.
About Wounded Warrior Battalion West
Wounded Warrior Battalion West provides assistance to wounded, injured, and ill Marines and Sailors and their family members throughout the phases of recovery. More information is available at
www.bnwest.woundedwarriorregiment.org.
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