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Joint Services Open New Combat Support Vehicle Maintenance Facility

Navy News Service

Story Number: NNS111029-08
10/29/2011

By Catherine Cruz Norton, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas Public Affairs

DEDEDO, Guam (NNS) -- Officials with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Marianas and Andersen Air Force Base cut the ribbon Oct. 26 on the $13 million Combat Support Vehicle Maintenance facility at Northwest Field on Andersen Air Force Base.

This joint-use building is intended to support the mission of the 554th Red Horse Squadron, which operates and maintains more than 400 pieces of heavy civil and building construction vehicles. It will also support the basic contracted vehicle maintenance needs of several other Air Force units.

"The facility you see here is a cog in the wheel of the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Regional Training Center and supports vehicle maintenance for the 554th Red Horse Squadron, Commando Warrior, CombatCom, and Silver Flag when they get here," said Air Force Col. Scott Hartford, chief, Capital Investment Management Division, Air Force Center for Engineering and Environment (AFCEE). "The vehicles of these organizations have been maintained in [a] trailer park city and in tents down here in the yard. This gets the vehicle maintainers into a professional facility, doing first-class work."

NAVFAC Marianas awarded the design-build task order in July 2010 to a Guam-based joint venture, Guam Pacific International. It represents the largest military construction project that has been performed to date by the combined 36th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES) and Resident Officer in Charge of Construction (ROICC) Andersen team.

"Just as soon as the award was made, our Navy and Air Force teams hit the ground running and maintained a true partnership throughout the duration of the project," said NAVFAC Marianas Executive Officer Capt. Cheryl Hansen. "I would like to recognize our team for their razor-sharp focus on safety. It is indeed a tremendous achievement to execute 163,000 hours of work without incident."

Consistent with the Navy's environmental stewardship, the new building will meet requirements by the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification.

"This is an example of our continued investments in sustainability," said Hansen. "We've included technologies that reduce water use by 40 percent and conserve electricity by 20 percent."