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NAVFAC Southeast Awards $8.3 Million Contract to Jacksonville Contractor

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Story Number: NNS080923-05
Release Date: 9/23/2008 5:41:00 AM

From Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast Public Affairs

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (NNS) -- Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast awarded an $8.3 million contract Sept. 5 to L.C. Gaskins Construction Co., Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla., for a new Engineering Services Facility (ESF) aboard Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

"The new facility will replace several aging facilities now used by the U.S. Navy at the Cape," said Capt. James M. Kuzma, commanding officer, Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU).

"The ESF will allow for improved workplace efficiency while reducing the overall square footage of occupied and maintained space by consolidating several aging facilities under one roof." This reduction of square footage is also in keeping with the Navy's overall goal of footprint reduction.

The project provides for the design and construction of a new engineering services facility for the NOTU. The work includes a single-story structure constructed on a cast-in-place concrete foundation with load bearing concrete tilt panel walls and SBS-modified bitumen roof membrane system.

All work will be performed aboard Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and is expected to be completed by December 2010.

For more news from Naval Facilities Engineering Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/navfachq/.