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Contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District install a 23-foot-tall concrete shaft enclosure weighing approximately 120,000 pounds as part of the guard wall at the Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Nov. 16, 2023.

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  • April

    Engineering students from the University of Louisville visit the site of the Louisville VA Medical Center April 13, 2023.

    Engineering students visit LOUVAMC construction site

    Louisville, Ky. – Engineering students from the University of Louisville had the opportunity to visit the site of the new Louisville VA Medical Center where they were given an overview of the project as well as a site tour April 13.

  • March

    This photo shows dozens of concrete pillars placed in one of the excavation sites on the property. These form the framework for the stormwater collection tank.

    Stormwater management key to successful construction

    Thousands of things must be considered and planned for in the construction of a complex facility like a new hospital and the multiple support facilities they require. Of course, many of the decisions involved are essential to guaranteeing the new facility can provide the best quality care for patients – ensuring their health for years to come. One consideration that may not come to mind to the average person for such a facility is how to preserve the environment underneath and around the new construction. This includes the construction of a rainwater drainage system so as not to disrupt the way water moves after large amounts of rainwater accumulate from storms.

  • February

    Will Jasper is a Quality Assurance Specialist working on the Louisville VA Medical Center project and student at the University of Louisville's J.B. Speed School of Engineering.

    Co-op student following in father’s footsteps working at USACE

    Being a member of a team can often feel like being part of a family, and sometimes team members actually are family. That’s the case for Will Jasper and his father, Kevin Jasper.

  • December

    Work is progressing quickly on the North Parking Deck, one of two parking garages being built as part of the Louisville VA Medical Center construction project.

    Louisville VA Medical Center project wraps up first year of construction

    It was a little over a year ago, Veterans Day 2021, that the first shovels kicked off work on the Louisville VA Medical Center during a groundbreaking ceremony. Now, with 20 percent of the scheduled construction time passed, work is taking place on almost every inch of the 34-acre site.

  • August

    Nathan Alford, engineer technician and construction representative in the Nashville District’s Eastern Tennessee Resident Office in Knoxville; and Sue Nan Jehlen, Mountain Home National Cemetery director, pose by the expansion project sign during a site visit at the cemetery annex in Johnson, City, Tennessee, Aug. 10, 2022. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Nashville District constructing Mountain Home National Cemetery expansion

    JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Aug. 17, 2022) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is providing technical services and managing construction of the Mountain Home National Cemetery Expansion Project, which will add 6,365 burial and cremation plots, plus eight columbarium units with 3,140 niches for veteran internments.
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