Military Department Investigative Agencies Quantico, Va.

PROJECT COST: $312.5 million

After years of project conceptualization, construction began in November on the Military Department Investigative Agencies facility, which will bring together several criminal investigative services to the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va.

Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Chantilly, Va., and design partner Fentress Architects of Washington, D.C., received the $312.5-million, design-build contract for the 719,000-sq-ft, multistory facility to consolidate the Counterintelligence Field Activity, Headquarters Naval Criminal Investigative Services, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Headquarters Army Criminal Investigation Command and the Defense Security Service at one location as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process.

It includes a schoolhouse for the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy and the Defense Security Service. About 3,000 people will work at the MILDEP location.

The project includes substantial offsite road widening and bridge improvements, parking for 2,500 vehicles, stormwater management, as well as improvements to the existing Ponderosa Gate on the Base. Completion is scheduled for June 2011.

Key Players

Owner: Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, D.C.
Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Chantilly, Va.
Architect: Fentress Architects, Washington, D.C.
Associate Architect: Giuliani Associates
Civil Engineering, landscape Architecture, Surveying, Construction Administration and Environmental Services: Timmons Group, Richmond, Va.
Electrical Design-Build Contractor: M.C. Dean, Dulles, Va.
Mechanical Design-Build Contractor: Limbach, Washington, D.C.