Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc. (BWSC) was part of the design team awarded an Honor Award at the Air Force 2010 Design Awards. The Honor Award was presented for Concept Design of the 711th Human Systems Wing Facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District.
As part of a joint venture with KZF Design, BWSC prepared the master plan and comprehensive design/build RFP for the 700,000-SF, $250 million facility. The project includes three new buildings, renovations in three existing buildings to provide facilities for the new U.S. Air Force Human Systems Wing (formerly called the Human Performance Wing), and a new base entrance gate. BWSC provided civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering on the project. As part of a lead-in project, BWSC performed an extensive utility/infrastructure study to determine the impact of the project on the existing infrastructure at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The new facilities will provide comprehensive, research, testing consultation, and teaching facilities for the School of Aerospace Medicine, the Air Force Research Labs, and the Navy Aerospace Medical Labs. The facilities will include wet and dry chemistry and biology teaching and research labs, a vivarium, entomology lab, emergency medical training, temporal labs, spatial disorientation research, human centrifuges, night vision research, and associated infrastructure and utility upgrades.
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon is an employee-owned engineering, architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and surveying firm. Visit BWSC’s web site for more information: www.bargewaggoner.com.