Turner Team Wins $448M Contract to Build Army Campus in Maryland

Oct 11, 2007
By: Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor

Having submitted a bid as part of a joint venture, Turner Construction Co. has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to handle design-build responsibilities for a new high-tech office and laboratory complex at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Md. The contract for the 1 million-square-foot project is valued at $447.5 million.

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Turner's team includes its Tompkins Builders subsidiary, as well as joint venture partners Grunley Construction and Kinsley Construction. Aberdeen Proving Ground occupies 72,000 acres in Harford County, about 35 miles outside of Baltimore. Designated at the Army's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Campus--the new complex is being designed by the architectural firm of Skidmore Owings & Merrill L.L.P. and will feature the latest in state-of-the art offerings to accommodate the highly technical activities that will be conducted at the site. Administrative offices, labs and training facilities will be housed in nine structures. Due to ramifications of the U.S. Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Program, civilian employees from Fort Monmouth, N.J., will be transferred to Aberdeen, which will ultimately provide space for the approximately 5,000 workers that will be on site within the next few years. Construction of the campus is on target to get underway early next year, with a scheduled completion date in 2010.

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The Aberdeen project marks Turner's second design-build award from the USACE this year. In July, Turner's Tompkins Builders won a design-build contract for the $50 million, 230,000-square-foot Sustained Center of Excellence headquarters at Fort Lee, Va. Headquartered in New York City, Turner is a leading general builder in the United States and during 2006 completed $8.6 billion in construction.

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