F/A-22 Technical Training Facility
Sheppard Air Force Base, TX

Business Challenge

Completing construction on time and within budget for this new, two-story high-bay Technical Training Facility for beddown of the F/A 22 Raptor aircraft.

Services Provided

• General contractor
• Self-performed work included the following:
  • Site supervision
  • Quality control
  • Drilled pier concrete rebar
  • Rough carpentry
  • HM frames, doors and hardware
  • FRP light pole bases
  • Installation of Division 10 items
  • Miscellaneous metals
  • Installed more than 5,000 linear feet of underground storm drain lines, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, electrical and communication concrete duct banks, and more than 130,000 square feet of concrete pavements and sidewalks

Results

The 122,000 SF building is constructed and supported with over 800 drilled piers, heavy concrete slab over carton forms, and structural steel framing. Construction also included exterior and interior CMU walls, exterior brick, metal studs and drywall, acoustical ceilings, mechanical and electrical distribution systems, standing seam metal roof system, high-bay training space, classified classrooms with secure storage for sensitive information, labs, shops, and support spaces. Project includes a 12,000 SF second floor mechanical mezzanine.

Special considerations include 400-hertz power required for training equipment in the high bays, structural floors in each high-bay support equipment weighing up to 25,000 lbs dead loads, large access hallways and doors in and around high bays so they are accessible for large training equipment, large amounts of access flooring, ventilation to exhaust carbon monoxide gases, and multiple overhead cranes.

The training facility includes classrooms, 60,000 SF of two-story high bay training areas, offices, restrooms, break rooms, storage areas, and mechanical and electrical support areas. In addition, the project includes the following: landscaping and irrigations, site furnishings, and parking troop walks. The training facility includes seventeen simulator bays and construction of the bays included such features as utility trenches cast into the floor slabs, structural attachment points above each simulator, and the installation of a bridge crane. The mechanical subcontract for this project was $3.3 million, which included two chillers, two boilers, nine AHU’s, 76 VAV’s, and 21 EF’s all controlled by a DDC system.