CHAPTER Il, SECTION 5
SECTION 5
PERMANENT CONSTRUCTION
Quartermaster Warehouses, Buildings 643
dates were set for the beneficial occupancy of
early part of August 1956. All three buildings
The very limited time allowed for the manufacture and delivery of dehumidification and
other mechanical equipment resulted in Using
and 644, on Fred and the Receiving Warehouse,
Building 515, on Elmer, were completed in the
were of a rigid steel frame structure known as the
Butler-type. The chapels on Elmer and Fred
were completed by September 1956.
The construction completed in 1957 on
Fred provided additional storage space with
Butler-type Buildings 592, 594, 596, 597, and
599. All buildings were part of the warehouse
program and were completed between 24 June
and 21 August 1957. In addition, a Generator
Shed at Building 15, a Dental Laboratory at
the hospital, and a 200,000-gallon concrete, freshwater reservoir were completed in 1957. On
Elmer the Hobby Shop-Building 243, the Gym-
nasium-Building 244, the Hot Locker addition
to Building 310, and a sawmill were completed
during the latter part of 1957. Most of the facilities
scheduled
for
use
during
Operation
HARDTACK were started in the latter months
of 1957.
Increased
operational
requirements
for
HARDTACK touched off a building boom to
meet the space needs desired by the Client by
certain dates in 1958. As of February 1958, firm
barracks, laboratories, the IBM Building, warehouses, and otherfacilities that were to be used.
agencies moving into the buildings on a “bene-
ficial occupancy” basis before final construction
was completed.
In general, most of the permanent facilities
on Elmer were standard Pacific Iron & Steel
or Butler-type buildings. Because of the extremely tight occupancy schedule of the existing Administration Building by TG 7.1 and more advantageous material delivery dates, a Butler-type
structure was selected for the H&N Administration Building in lieu of the standard PI&S
structure. The 18-man barracks, Buildings 144
and 145, and CJTF-7 Guest House, Building
497, were manufactured by the Pasco Steel Com-
pany, with the latter building having plywood
partitions installed in order to expedite completion. The 2-story barracks — Buildings 456, 457,
459, and 460—were designed requiring precast concrete bents and second-story slabs with
metal interior and exterior walls and roofs. Existing barracks, Buildings 109, 115, 116, 122,
(Neg. No. W-V-117-8)
Figure No. 2-140.
Communications Building 224,
Elmer — 55% Complete.
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