(Edward A. Ornelas / Express-News)
Fireworks at Lackland on July 4.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded an $18.5 million contract to Pennsylvania-based AMEC Earth & Environmental Inc. to build an airfield maintenance training complex at Lackland Air Force Base.
The contract, which is part of the Base Realignment and Closure Process, will benefit the Inter-American Air Forces Academy at Lackland, which trains and educates air forces of several Latin American countries.
The 74,700-square-foot project will include classrooms, aircraft operations and hangar maintenance training areas. It’s scheduled to be finished in the fall of 2010.
The new facility will be the center for training that currently is conducted at Port San Antonio.
This contract is the 17th of 30 contracts worth more than $700 million that are scheduled to be awarded for BRAC and other military construction projects in San Antonio by the end of fiscal year 2009, which end Sept. 30.
$1.2 billion in BRAC and BRAC-related contracts were awarded in fiscal year 2008.
The peak of BRAC construction will occur at the end of this summer, when more than 2,200 construction workers are expected to be spread across the various project sites.
