Turner Construction Company has topped out one of the new buildings going up at the flood-ravaged Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska.
Vertical construction is now finished at the three-storey, 420,000-square-foot Non-Kinetic Operations Campus at the base, which was inundated by the Missouri River in March 2019.
Around 720 million gallons of water damaged 137 structures and displaced 3,200 personnel at the base, headquarters to the US Strategic Command.
A $1.2bn, seven-building reconstruction programme got underway in January 2020.
It began with raising the base’s ground level by about a metre with 515,000 cubic metres of earth.
In August 2023, the US Army Corps of Engineers awarded Turner a $389m design-build contract to build the operations campus – used for intelligence, training, maintenance, and reconnaissance – and a 5,000-square-foot defence courier station with architects CRTKL.
Turner says it’s the final phase of the reconstruction campaign.
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