Wright-Patterson Air Force Base BRAC Infrastructure

HEAPY served as the Project Manager for the site utility infrastructure and roads for the 60-acre Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. HEAPY also designed the Mechanical-Electrical systems to relocate and extend electric, communications, gas, steam, and managed the storm, sanitary, and water site utilities.

In 2005, the US Government conducted another round of BRAC (Base Realignment and Closures) to help streamline the processes conducted by the military throughout the United States. This task included consolidating multiple DoD’s installations (more than 350 since 1988) into existing installations with the hope that this would save billions of dollars.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was affected positively by the BRAC Process, landing multiple new operations, including the new 250 million, 750,000 square-foot 711th Human Performance Wing (HPW) Building. To accommodate the New HPW Building along with a slew of other New Buildings, the Outside Plant Infrastructure (Electrical, Fiber Optic, Copper & Private CATV) had to be relocated and/or upgraded.

This included the requirement of taking utilities that were currently installed on poles and rerouting them underground, installing manholes around existing duct banks (some of which were clay), installing new concrete encased duct banks and manholes, as well as thousands of feet of new cabling.