The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $697.8-million design-build contract to Balfour Beatty Construction LLC for a building at Fort Meade in Maryland, the Dept. of Defense announced April 13.
The project will include construction of a multi-story 858,000-sq-ft facility plus a 1.2-million-sq-ft parking garage, according to the bid solicitation. The facility “is not a standard design,” the documents state, adding that it must be built to Director of National Intelligence standards for protecting sensitive information. The building will also feature open office areas with large, flexible floor plates, a Corps fact sheet about the project states.
