24 Feb 2025

Army officer gaining engineering experience at Canandaigua VA Medical Center project

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Capt. Matthew Purdy has had an interest in engineering and how things work since he was a preschooler. That lifelong interest has led him to his current role as a project engineer on the Canandaigua VA Medical Center project in upstate New York.Purdy began his military career when he enlisted into the Vermont Army

17 Jul 2023

Louisville VA project to include two parking garages

Louisville, Ky. – One major difference the new Louisville VA Medical Center will boast over the current Robley Rex VA Medical Center is the addition of two parking garage structures compared to surface lot parking for patients. It’s hoped that these parking garages will be a welcomed addition for patients as they will not only provide more parking but provide shorter distances to the medical center.

10 Jun 2022

Construction continues on Canandaigua VA hospital project

Work continues on multiple projects across the campus of the Canandaigua VA Medical Center, as visitors can notice the work on new facilities and upgrades to current buildings across 75 percent of the hospital’s grounds.  The work is being done thanks to recommendations from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) program noting that the decades-old facilities were being underutilized, said Gerry DiPaola, USACE Project Manager for the Canandaigua VA Medical Center construction.

22 Feb 2022

Construction on the new Louisville VA Medical Center clears a major milestone

The construction site of the new Louisville VA Medical Center has seen a lot of changes since the first shovels of dirt were ceremonially dug during the groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 11, 2021. Contractors have been busy performing various earthwork activities as well as drilling on the site in preparation for the first blasting to break up the bedrock under the site which took place Feb. 21.

2 Jan 2019

VA, USACE partner to break ground on clinic at Fort Knox

History was made Dec. 11, 2018, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District proudly partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs to break ground on the new VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic at Fort Knox, Kentucky—the first stand-alone VA clinic to be located on a Department of Defense Installation.The $10.7 million project,