Alcoa-based Hickory Construction Inc. wins $9.7 million Army Reserve project
Hickory Construction Inc. is set to start on a third military installation in East Tennessee.
The Alcoa-based company won a $9.7 million contract to build a 45,000-square-foot Army Reserve center in Chattanooga, the U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Jim Pack, Hickory's vice president of commercial operations, said Wednesday the company had been particularly interested in winning the contract for the Chattanooga facility because the new Army Reserve center will be located adjacent to another Hickory Construction project: a new communications training complex for the 241st Engineering & Installation Squadron of the Tennessee Air National Guard.
Groundbreaking on the $8.2 million Air Guard complex in Chattanooga was held Sept. 1. The close proximity of the two Hickory projects offers cost-saving opportunities.
Hickory also is in the midst of two Oak Ridge National Laboratory Projects, a $2.5 million experimental greenhouse and a $7 million maintenance facility.
The company's third military contract is a Tennessee National Guard project closer to its home base.
On Oct. 26, ground was broken for the 134th Air Refueling Wing's new $8 million squadron operations center at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base. The new squad ops building will support pilots and other personnel of the 151st Refueling Squadron that fly the wing's KC-135R tankers.