GRAEF-USA Inc.

Great Lakes Naval Training Facility Recruit Barracks

GRAEF was retained to provide complete civil/site development design services as part of a $200 million development of seven Recruit Training Barracks at the Great Lakes Naval Training Facility. The first two of the seven barracks are currently under construction on a previously undeveloped 49-acre site adjacent to the existing Great Lakes base.

GRAEF’s engineers were responsible to design all aspects of the newly developed site. These included:

· Completely re-grading the site to fit the new “campus” setting.
· Development of roads, parking, and a new security fence.
· Extending new utilities to the site, including electric power, steam lines, sewer and water, gas, and communications.
· A system of 28-foot wide sidewalks for the troops to assemble and march on.
· Stormwater detention and treatment.
· Create building pads for the new barracks facilities, each of which will house over 1100 recruits.
· Design of a new water booster station and a new 750,000-gallon water tower.
· A stormwater lift station.
· A new entrance under existing railroad tracks is planned for the site. This required design of a new railroad bridge to carry existing and future lines, and could be constructed without significant interruption to existing rail service.

A major feature of the new site design is underground stormwater detention, including a buried treatment chamber that improves water quality before releasing it to the municipal storm system. This underground system freed up large tracts of land that had been proposed as stormwater retention ponds.

The barracks are planned in phases between 2002 and 2006, although most site development work is occurring in the first phase of the development, currently under construction.
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LOCATION Great Lakes, IL