Aviation Support Training Facility| Jacksonville, Florida

Ebert Norman Brady Architects in association with LC Gaskins Construction Company is currently working on the design and construction of the Aviation Support Equipment Maintenance Training Facility, which includes a new two-story training facility and a one-story, high and low bay aviation support equipment lab for the Naval Air Maintenance Group at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. The training facility building includes classrooms, administrative offices, and student and instructor locker rooms and lounges. The lab building includes three low-bay maintenance labs, one high-bay maintenance lab with two large spaces, and three turbine test cells. One of the challenges of the project was the requirement that the existing training facility remain in operation throughout the duration of the construction project. This will be accomplished by constructing the new two-story classroom/administrative building first, then once the user has taken occupancy of the new building, the existing building will be demolished to make room for the new lab building. The new classroom/administrative building features concrete tilt-panel exterior walls with a fractured rib panel design and a standing seam metal roof. The lab building features a metal building structural system with metal wall panels and structural standing seam roof panels. Both buildings have been designed to comply with and complement the existing base exterior.

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