HONOLULU >> A Honolulu firm has been awarded a $50.7 million Army construction contract to renovate three historic 1920s-era buildings at Schofield Barracks. Isle firm wins
Schofield bid for
$50 millionAssociated Press
Dick Pacific/Shintani, a joint venture, will design, build and renovate four three-story buildings in Quad F and do other site improvements at Schofield Barracks, the Department of Defense said in a release.
The buildings will house living quarters for single enlisted personnel, administrative, dining and soldier community functions. Work on the project is expected to be completed by June 25, 2003.
"This is a very timely infusion of federal dollars," said Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii. "It represents a substantial federal investment at a time of great economic uncertainty."
The work is part of a Whole Barracks Renewal Program to renovate Schofield's historic quadrangle buildings, which were originally built in the early 1920s. Hawaii is in line to get more than $365 million for military construction projects under a bill approved last week by the House of Representatives.
The 2002 Defense Authorization Bill includes nearly $12 million for a Pearl Harbor shipping operations building, tens of millions of dollars for new military housing construction and improvements, and some $38 million for the third phase of the new headquarters for the Commander in Chief of U.S. Pacific Forces at Oahu's Camp H.M. Smith, Abercrombie said.
Dick Pacific Construction Co. is building the $86 million Nimitz-MacArthur Pacific Command Center at Camp Smith, scheduled to be completed in 2003. Last month Dick Pacific was awarded a separate $65.9 million contract for construction of two multistory barracks for 400 soldiers, two battalion headquarters buildings and six company operations buildings at Schofield.