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  • October

    Jim Davis (right), a Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., project manager, looks on as John Evans, a Norfolk District environmental scientist, shows district commander Col. Paul Olsen maps of proposed future mitigation sites. The sites will offset the loss of stream beds due to changes in water levels.

    District furloughs employees as USACE suspends regulatory operations nationwide

    NORFOLK -- The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will issue furlough notices to 48

  • September

    Representatives from the Senegalese armed forces, U.S. Embassy Senegal, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District and contractor, CNaf-SET, tour the Dodji Peace Keeping Operations Training Center project site Aug. 20 in Senegal. The camp is being upgraded to include eight new barracks, a dining facility, shower and latrine facilities for men and women, a water treatment plant and a well. The turnkey facilities will accommodate and supply 1,000 soldiers upon completion mid-September. U.S. Department of State Global Peace Operations Initiative funded the project to support the development of Senegalese PKO capabilities.

    US upgrades Senegalese army training center

    DODJI, Senegal -- The sound of construction progress will soon be replaced by the voices of Senegalese soldiers at Dodji Peacekeeping Operations Training Center. Representatives from the Senegalese army, U.S. Embassy Senegal and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District visited the Dodji PKO project site Aug. 20 to inspect construction work by contractor, CNaf-SET.

  • July

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    Craney Island’s oyster mitigation project set for summer launch

    Oysters are expanding their real estate in the Elizabeth River and Hoffler Creek this summer, thanks to a USACE, VPA partnership to construct 16 acres of oyster reef, part of the Craney Island Eastward Expansion project.
  • Progress being made on the Clinic Addition project.

    Army Corps improves patient care at West Point hospital

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District is constructing an addition to a hospital at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point that will provide needed outpatient medical services for its Cadets.

  • June

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of a new Afghan Uniform Police district headquarters facility in Qala I Naw 120 days ahead of schedule.

    3 Afghan National Police headquarters facilities now complete in Western Afghanistan

    KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of three Afghan Uniform Police headquarters facilities in Western Afghanistan, well ahead of schedule. The facilities, built by Afghan-owned and operated construction firms with oversight by the Afghanistan Engineer District-South, will serve as bases of operations for 100 personnel at Qala I Naw, 120 personnel at Torghondi, and 60 personnel at Lash Jaween.

  • April

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    Army Corps helps support the Army Family through school construction

    In 1821 the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York established the first school on a military installation to serve the children of service members. Almost two centuries later, the West Point community and Department of Defense continue to be committed to providing these children an education to take them into the 21st century, even in the current tough fiscal times.

  • USACE concrete plant ensures quality, speed

    Did you know the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a state-of-the-art concrete batch plant in Charleroi, Pa., which is within the Pittsburgh District's oversight? Well, they do. The Corps places most of its concrete under water at locks, dams and river related structures; therefore, the concrete has to be designed to last.

  • February

    Kennedy Flame to receive upgrades

    The Norfolk District awarded a Maryland company on Jan. 31 a contract to upgrade the John F. Kennedy eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery.
  • Lt. Col. Edward Chamberlayne (left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, teams up with Baltimore District Commander Col. Trey Jordan to present the ceremonial check for the project to replace the 1.6 million square foot roof and mechanical systems at the Eastern Distribution Center, DLA Distribution, New Cumberland, Pa. This Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization project will be completed in 2015.

    Corps and DLA Distribution officials team together on a huge roof replacement project

    Corps officials from both Charleston and Baltimore Districts joined DLA Distribution leaders for the

  • January

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District continues work in December on NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe International School campus in Mons, Belgium. The endeavor, funded collectively by Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe and NATO, will bring new elementary, middle and high schools to DoDDS students and new classrooms for the international school in an environmentally sustainable campus setting. Officials have targeted 2018 for completion of the entire campus.

    Taking SHAPE: USACE projects key to organization's future

    MONS, Belgium -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is managing a major push into upgrading decades-old buildings on the NATO base here as part of an endeavor that will have a lasting impact on the culture and mission of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, military and education leaders say.
  • Lori Gardner (right), the Afghanistan Engineer District-South Tarin Kowt Resident Office Engineer, and Capt. Daniel Sunden, the resident office officer in charge, review site plans on a helicopter ride to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project site in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.

    Building Afghanistan: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at work

    KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- How does the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversee construction in Afghanistan? Who decides the scope, design, location or budget of the projects? The answers to those questions are not simple, neither are the steps involved in bringing projects to completion.

  • December

    A side view of the new general instruction building at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, Calif., shown April 19, 2012. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District oversaw construction of the building, used by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center to teach military personnel foreign languages.

    In-house design helps transform California military post

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An abandoned airplane hangar with just four instructors, 60 students and only one language was how the school began in San Francisco. Around the same time the school was starting its life, a small, 170-year-old military post about 100 miles south was going through yet another renovation: serving as a reception area for the U.S. Army's III Corps.
  • NATO special operations forces, comprised of 26 member nations and three non-NATO partners, celebrate the completion of a new state-of-the-art, 23,000-square-foot headquarters building during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 12 at SHAPE in Mons, Belgium. NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Adm. James Stavridis, center left, and Lt. Gen. Frank Kisner, NATO Special Operations Headquarters commander, addressed distinguished guests and expressed their desire for the building to serve as an ideas hub for 21st-century special operations.

    USACE delivers NATO Special Operations Headquarters in Belgium

    MONS, Belgium -- U.S. and international military officials have cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art facility constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District that will enable the NATO special operations forces community to plan, coordinate and conduct vital missions around the globe.
  • Jeff Ice, a safety and occupational health specialist who deployed to Kandahar from the USACE New York District shows an Afghan construction worker how to detect a fake fire extinguisher. Some counterfeit ones, instead of releasing the normal fire-stopping agent they are supposed to release, spit out flour or other non-effective substances.

    Building Strong means building safe

    KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Throughout the Afghanistan Engineer District-South area of operations, where dozens of Afghan National Security Forces installations are under construction, safety and occupational health specialists visit job sites daily to make sure laborers are protected from unnecessary risks.
  • Leaders from the Defense Logistics Agency and U. S. Army Corps of Engineers break ground for the new DLA headquarters building at the Defense Distribution Susquehanna, Pa., on Nov. 28. They include (from left) Col. David Touzinsky, commander, Defense Distribution Susquehanna; Army Brig. Gen. Susan Davidson, Commanding General, DLA Distribution Center; Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek, Director, Defense Logistics Agency; William Budden, Senior Executive Service, deputy commander; Col. Kent Savre, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division, and Rob Montefour, DLA Installation Support site director.

    Corps joins dignitaries for DLA headquarters groundbreaking event

    New Cumberland, Pa. -- Col. Kent Savre, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division, joined other dignitaries at the Nov. 28 groundbreaking event for the new $95 million Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) headquarters here.

  • August

    KUTTAWA, Ky. — A work crew with National Electric Coil from Columbus, Ohio secures a 270-ton rotor assembly onto a pedestal at the Barkley Dam Hydropower Plant here, Aug. 16, 2012. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is rehabilitating a hydropower generator damaged in an electrical fire in January 2010.

    Barkley hydropower rehabilitation gets a 270-ton lift

    Work crews at Barkley Power Plant removed a 270-ton rotor assembly, Aug. 16, 2012 from a crippled hydropower unit damaged 18 months ago by an electrical fire. The heavy lift enables the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to move forward with the generator's rehabilitation.
  • ROMANIA — Through a partnership with the U.S. European Command, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District will oversee renovation of the basement of the world's second largest office building, Romania's Palace of the Parliament, remodeling it to be able to accommodate a new training classroom and conference room.

    Army Corps of Engineers helps renovate world's second largest building

    Through a partnership with the U.S. European Command, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District will oversee renovation of the basement of the world's second largest office building.
  • JAMESTOWN, Ky. — The work platform for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Foundation Remediation Project can be seen on the embankment of Wolf Creek Dam May 1, 2012. The contractor, Treviicos-Soletanche J.V., reached one million hours without a lost-time accident Aug. 17, 2012, an amazing safety record that has helped keep the project on schedule for completion in December 2013.

    Work crews reach million-hour safety milestone at Wolf Creek Dam

    Construction crews at the Wolf Creek Dam Foundation Remediation Project reached a lofty safety milestone today when the men and women installing a concrete barrier wall deep into the dam's embankment reached 550 days and one million work-hours on the job without a lost-time accident.

  • Langley's gate construction makes way for new visitor center

    LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, VA -- The second and final phase of gate construction here kicked off Monday.
  • JAMESTOWN, Ky. — Larry Craig (right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District power project manager, leads Nashville Mayor Karl Dean (center) and Scott Potter, director of Nashville's Metro Water Services, on a tour of the Wolf Creek Dam Hydropower Plant Aug. 7, 2012

    Nashville mayor goes up river to see dam safety project

    Nashville Mayor Karl Dean visited Wolf Creek Dam Aug. 7, 2012 to see the ongoing foundation remediation construction, which is a dam safety project of vital importance to the citizens he represents 270 miles downstream.
  • NAPA, Calif. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District will wrap up construction Aug. 3, 2012, on a significant effort in downtown Napa, Calif., to raise 3,300 feet of railroad tracks as much as six feet and construct two new bridges to help reduce the city's flood risk.

    Sacramento District wraps up vital Napa River ARRA construction contract

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District would like to change that history, as it will wrap up construction Aug. 3, 2012 on a significant effort in downtown Napa to raise 3,300 feet of railroad tracks as much as six feet and construct two new bridges to help reduce the city's flood risk.

  • July

    FLORIDA — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District employees and contractor, Kiewit Construction, work through the night to complete the first concrete pour on the bridge deck for theTamiami Trail Modifications project, July 13, 2012.

    USACE achieves major construction milestone at Tamiami Trail

    The U.S Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District reached a major milestone for the Tamiami Trail Modifications project was reached shortly after midnight July 13, 2012 as the first concrete pour on the bridge deck was completed.
  • LANCASTER, Tenn. — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and Bauer Foundation Corporation management and personnel pose for photos on a specialty drill rig July 11, 2012 during a "First Bite" ceremony to begin constructing a subsurface concrete wall as a barrier for potentially harmful seepage water moving beneath the earthen dam.

    Construction begins with 'first bite' on foundation barrier wall at Center Hill Dam

    The "first bite" of a $106 million drilling project to stabilize the earthen portion of the Center Hill Dam with a barrier wall was taken July 11, 2012 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and its contractor, Bauer Foundation Corporation, as the auger of a giant drill rig turned up the first dirt to the cheers of spectators.
  • NEW YORK — Project Stakeholder from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation watches hummock removal process on Yellow Bar Hassock marsh island.

    Balancing Economic Revitalization & the Environment in one of the World's Most Urbanized Estuaries

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District and its regional partners are actively committed to achieving the vision of a "World Class Harbor Estuary."
  • WIESBADEN, Germany — Col. D. Peter Helmlinger (from left), commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Col. David Carstens, U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden commander; Col. Bruce Crawford, commander of the 5th Signal Command; 5th Signal Command Sgt. Maj. Gerald Tyce; Wolfgang Schnitzer of the Hessen Construction Management Agency; and Bertram Giesinger with the Wolff-Mueller construction firm break ground on the new Information Processing Center on Wiesbaden's Clay Kaserne, June 28, 2012.

    New Information Processing Center to consolidate information assets in Europe

    German and American officials broke ground for the next stage in transformation on Wiesbaden's Clay Kaserne June 28, 2012.

  • June

    WIESBADEN, Germany — The Gen. John Shalikashvili Mission Command Center will be the new home for most of the staff of U.S Army Europe and is located at the Gen. Lucas D. Clay Kaserne, U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany. The quality, sustainable, state-of-the-art facility was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District in 22 months. The building, named during a June 14, 2012 ceremony is a memorial to Gen. John Shalikashvili who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936 and was the first foreign-born American Soldier to be appointed as a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    USACE earns first LEED® certification for US facility in Germany

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District announced June 26, 2012 that it has been awarded the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification of a U.S. facility in Germany. LEED, established by the U.S. Green Building Council, is an internationally recognized program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.
  • WIESBADEN, Germany — The Gen. John Shalikashvili Mission Command Center will be the new home for most of the staff of U.S Army Europe and is located at the Gen. Lucas D. Clay Kaserne, U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany. The quality, sustainable, state-of-the-art facility was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District in 22 months. The building, named during a June 14, 2012 ceremony is a memorial to Gen. John Shalikashvili who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936 and was the first foreign-born American Soldier to be appointed as a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    U.S. Army Europe names USACE built Mission Command Center

    The new Gen. John Shalikashvili Mission Command Center will be the new home for most of the staff of U.S Army Europe and is located at the newly named Gen. Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, U.S. Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany.
  • WEST POINT — Cadets working on experiments in a new lab in an area of the science center where renovation has been completed. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District is constructing a new science center for the cadets at the academy that is maintaining the look of the historic 200-year old campus and taking their science education well into the 21st Century.

    New science center helps cadets reach for the stars

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District is constructing a new science center for the cadets at the academy that is maintaining the look of the historic 200-year old campus and taking their science education well into the 21st Century.