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Emergency Service Centers : U.S. Southern Command Headquarters (Design-Build)

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Crosby Group provided structural engineering for the design-build of the U.S. Southern Command Headquarters facility in Miami-Doral, Florida. The campus includes approximately 672,000 square feet accommodating 2,883 staff in three (3) zones: the Headquarters (HQ) zone, the Coalition & Interagency Operations Center (CIOC) zone, and the Services zone. These zones contain work spaces, command and control/operations centers, conference/meeting areas, C4I/IT equipment rooms, warehousing, a medical clinic, a family support center, and other common personnel-support facilities. Due to the nature of the organization’s missions, the new HQ facility must have designated work areas to conduct Unclassified, SECRET, and Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Areas where classified information will be processed required special infrastructure construction.

Located near the coast in Miami, a key challenge to this project was the requirement that the facility be fully functional during a Category 5 Hurricane. The 185 mph design wind velocity far exceeded the code maximum of 146 mph. Incorporating the results of a detailed wind tunnel analysis the design team was able to substantially reduce the impact of the high design load by capturing the ‘true’ wind pressures on the structure. This design-build project, located in Miami-Doral, Florida, attained LEED Gold certification.

LOCATION:
Miami-Doral, FL

CONSTRUCTION COST:
$213 Million

COMPLETED:
2010

OWNER:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

HIGHLIGHTS:
185 mph (Category 5) Hurricane Force
Wind Tunnel Study
Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (ATFP) Design
LEED Gold
Design-Build
BIM/Revit Modeled

AWARDS:
- 2011 DBIA National Design Build Award
- 2011 Excellence in Construction Award-Mega Projects > $200M
- 2010 ASCE Project of the Year Award, Miami-Dade Branch


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