Fort McCoy’s fourth transient training troops $27.3 million barracks project, also known as the East
Barracks Project, is approaching nearly 70 percent completion, said Nathan Butts with the Resident
Office of the Army Corps of Engineers at Fort McCoy.
In his Sept. 12 update, Butts said the contractor, L.S. Black Constructors, were steadily making progress
on the project. As of Sept. 12, the project was at 68 percent complete and work was scheduled to be 60
percent finished at this time.
Butts wrote in the update, “Masons continue working on the north and northwest side of the building.
Drywall installation continues. Bathroom tile on the first floor continued. Window installation continues.
“Ceiling grid continues to be installed throughout the building. Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
rough-in continues. Drywall finishing and painting continues throughout the building. Parking lot curb
and gutter continued. Parking lot concrete paving placement continued,” Butts wrote.
Since its initial construction phase in May 2024, construction of this barracks have been nonstop by the
contractor who was awarded the project in February 2024. The exact contract amount for the project
when it was awarded was $27,287,735.
As the workers with L.S. Black Constructors work on this project, they can look over to the two other
barracks they constructed in the same block. They are a familiar name in the construction history at Fort
McCoy, having not only built the first two of the 60,000-square-foot transient training troops barracks, but
they also built the new brigade headquarters building located in the same block as the barracks buildings.
The contract duration is scheduled for completion in 780 calendar days, Army Corps of Engineer contract
documents show. “Current contract completion date is April 24, 2026,” Butts also wrote in the Sept. 12
update.
From the building description, when complete, the building will be able to house up to 400 people like the
other completed barracks in the same block. According to the scope of work, it’s going to be “made of
permanent construction with reinforced concrete foundations; concrete floor slabs; structural steel frames;
steel stud infill; masonry veneer walls; prefinished standing seam metal roofing; heating, ventilation, and
air conditioning capabilities; plumbing; mechanical systems; and electrical systems. Supporting facilities
include land clearing, concrete sidewalk paving, general site improvements, and utility connections.”
Work also continues in 2025 by contractors to prepare a large swath of the 1600 block on Fort McCoy’s
cantonment area to construct the fiscal year 2024-funded $55.75 million Collective Training Officers
Quarters Project by contractor BlindermanPower (Construction).
Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works planning officials said all the construction is done with projects
on this part of Fort McCoy, it will demonstrate a major transformation of the block and hold lots of
barracks space for troops training at the installation.
This project and others like it also have in economic impact on local economies.
For the past six years, and even before that, millions of dollars in construction dollars have been counted
by the Fort McCoy Plans, Analysis, and Integration Office as a key factor and contributor to the
installation’s annual economic impact each fiscal year.
Since fiscal year (FY) 2019, more than $310 million has been calculated in new construction of buildings
and ranges alone, reports show. Over that same time, more than $1.47 billion has also been applied to
operating costs that included utilities, physical plant maintenance, repair and improvements, other new
construction projects, purchases of supplies and services, and salaries for civilian contract personnel
working at Fort McCoy.
Projects at Fort McCoy like the current $27.3 million East Barracks Project, $28.08 million South
Barracks Project, and the $55.75 million Collective Training Officers Quarters Project, are among those
projects adding to the economic impact currently.
These projects are on top of recently completed projects like the $20.6 million and $18.8 million barracks
projects as well as the $11.96 million brigade headquarters building that was fully completed in 2024.
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