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MUSIC AMC NEWS DISPATCH THEME
MS. CLEMONS Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the AMC News Dispatch.
I’m Beth Clemons with the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs.
We’re on location at the construction site this week at the new AMC and
USASAC Headquarters buildings here on Redstone Arsenal.
As you can see much has been accomplished since the groundbreaking in September of 2008.
This week we’ll speak with several members of the G-4/7/9 BRAC Transformation Team
and get an update on our transitional facilities, our new building construction and our BRAC progress overall.
MR. BOWERS Behind me we have Building 7611 which is the final transitional facility to get ready for the advance team.
This facility should hold approximately 220 people and this building should be completely done this week
other than the Emergency Operations Center which should be done within the next two or three weeks
and the Emergency Operations Center is going to be a fully functional 24/7 operations center.
In this building also we have a commands suite which is going to be occupied by the G-35.
MR. OLSHEFSKI We know we’ve been doing BRAC since 2005. We know --- AMC has been moving to Redstone since 2005
and presently we have about 230 folks that are here on the ground made up of pretty much the AMC folks
that really wanted to move down here originally.
We like to call them the low-hanging fruit folks, the ones that really wanted to be here
and then we are getting folks from Redstone, yes we are, and from other places like IMCOM
and other locations that are really wanting to move to Redstone. So on the ground right now we have about 230.
We’re looking for another 200 this summer. We have the appropriate buildings to handle that 200 right now which is 7611
and now we’re in 7612. 7611 should be completed here in the next month to include a third floor that has a SIPR
and a third floor that has an EOC and a third floor that has the capability to handle just about anything we can handle
up north at AMC so we’re pretty excited about that.
Our timeline here at Redstone, we are on schedule. Our building is in the zone right now.
You know we’ve had some weather issues. It’s not uncommon to have --- well, actually it is uncommon here at Redstone,
never had a delay in a building due to weather. We got a little delay but it’s not something we can’t make up.
When the building starts coming to ground we’re working that with the Corps and we feel pretty strong about it.
End result is to have the building done in January,
late January --- late January is our goal and if you add 90 days of getting the facility ready with all the appropriate computers
and all the VTCs and all that kind of stuff that we need, then working on all the bugs,
you know the little things you have with buildings, if you just add 90 days that takes you February, March, April.
It looks like 1 May or so we could start moving anybody and everybody that needs to move
because we’ll have the place ready with all the walls, desks, furniture, the whole ball of wax.
MR. EDWARDS We awarded the project in July of 2008 and broke ground in September of 2008.
To date we have just completed --- we are just starting to complete the construction of the basement for the AMC portion.
The USASAC portion of the project is almost finished with the slab on grade work for that piece of the project.
The big step is the *** of the steel coming up.
Actually today we received our first shipment of steel on site
and the crane that will lift all of this will be on site towards the end of this month
and we hope to be putting steel up in the middle of June.
Moving to the right a little more you’ll start seeing a big crane.
That crane is assisting with putting in the forms for our basement. We’re probably about 80, 85 percent on the basement walls.
The floor in the basement is right at 100 percent. They’re scheduled to get done with the basement in total by the 26th of May.
Panning more to the right where the orange loader is, behind that is the USASAC building.
They’re just about done with the slab on grade work there. They have one more big pour and that will finish that up
and I think they’re looking about the same time as our basement to finish up.
On the far side of our basement right here you can see a kind of white looking shack.
That is the general location of the central utility plant that will feed the whole complex.
That’s where all the utilities come into, that building.
From there they are fed underground to the different --- the two buildings.
In between the basement and this slab which is USASAC that will be our lobby area.
Starting next week they’re going to rope that off and they will start pouring the slab work for the basement --- I mean for the lobby.
MS. CLEMONS So as you can see much progress has been made in the AMC and USASAC transitions from Fort Belvoir to Redstone Arsenal.
Stay tuned for future updates and don’t forget to check out our BRAC website at www.amc.army.mil/trans.
That’s it for this week’s edition of the AMC News Dispatch. We’ll see you next week.
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