Battered National Guard Facilities Are Design-Build Lab

摘要

The largest public-works program in the history of the National Guard is racing to a finish, with 14 of 16 hurricane-recovery design-build contracts under budget and the last one scheduled for delivery by late next summer. In fall 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damaged or destroyed all 189 Louisiana Army National Guard facilities. By December 2005, Congress had appropriated funds to rebuild, but with a short fuse: "We had to award contracts within nine months," says Lt. Col. William Aldridge, construction facilities management officer for LANG. The $467 million was equal in cost to all other Guard construction programs executed in 50 states and four territories in fiscal year 2006, combined.