JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Power Civil Engineer Middle not too long ago introduced the winners of the 2023 Division of the Air Power Design Awards for excellence in design, sustainability and vitality effectivity.
“The three 2023 award-winning tasks exhibit progressive and cost-effective design options that exceed the DAF normal for excellence. It’s an exceptional collaborative workforce effort that features our design and development brokers, business companions and myriad mission homeowners throughout the enterprise,“ stated Col. George Nichols, deputy director of AFCEC’s Facility Engineering Directorate. “Our installations are our power-projection platforms, and we proceed to modernize them by delivering mission-ready, mission-focused amenities to keep up probably the most agile and deadly pressure that’s optimized for not solely present however future fights as nicely.”
The annual DAF Design Awards program honors the highest tasks that exemplify one of the best structure and constructing design whereas complying with Division of Protection and Air Power standards. This system, in tandem with the DAF’s private-sector companions, acknowledges tasks that obtain design excellence associated to the pure and constructed surroundings.
The 2023 recipients are:
Advantage Award: Amenities Renovations and Additions Class: Purple Flag 201, 5thGeneration Addition, Nellis Air Power Base, Nevada.
Advantage Award: Amenities New Building Class: Consolidated Operations Constructing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri.
Quotation Award: Amenities New Building Class: KC-46A, Two-Bay Depot Upkeep Hangar, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.
Successful designs embodied high quality by way of a fusion of performance, sustainability and local weather resilience, value management, and vitality effectivity, stated Wallace Lindsey, Air Power Design Awards program supervisor. “The awards program acknowledges demonstrations of facility excellence at DAF installations. Design excellence is established by assembly DAF company amenities requirements and set up facility requirements, DoD metrics for efficiency, and DAF price range necessities,” Lindsey stated.
A 3-member jury, made up of material consultants from AFCEC’s Requirements & Analysis Department, appraised the entries on distinctive standards reminiscent of diminished vitality/water use, supplies or life-cycle value efficiencies.
“I’m tremendously grateful for workforce members throughout the enterprise who’re dedicated to excellence in design, in addition to our stellar jury members tasked with the unbelievable problem of evaluating all submitted tasks,” Lindsey stated.
A proper presentation of the awards is scheduled Jan. 30–Feb. 1 throughout the annual AFCEC Design & Building Partnering Symposium in San Antonio.
