Anniston, Alabama

In 2018, the Armory Commission of Alabama engaged JMR+H Architecture to provide a Project Planning Document Charrette (PPDC) to prepare the documentation for validation and planning analysis for an Enlisted Barracks Transient Training Area in Anniston, Alabama. These projects are a component of the Real Property Master Plan (RPMP) to provide support to the Ft. McClellan Training Center. In 2019, the Armory Commission issued a contract for the JMR+H Group to provide construction documents and contract administration for the project.

This project consists of enlisted barracks, a transient training facility with a Battalion Headquarters, Company Supply / Administrative Buildings, Transient Training that supports annual training and inactive duty training for units conducting training at a location other than assigned home station (in other words, Reserve Component soldiers at annual training sites and Active Component soldiers training away from home station).

The enlisted barracks will be constructed to provide Fort McClellan Army National Guard Training Center (FM-ARNG TC) modern and efficient housing facilities to schedule for unit training activities. Additionally, this project delivers the necessary space to support a Battalion Headquarters element and Company Supply / Administrative buildings. Currently, units are scheduling annual training and inactive duty training periods at other locations because of a shortage of available space in these functional areas and the continued use of WWII wooden buildings is no longer practical or safe.

These facilities include: 59,735 SF Billeting Facilities; 12,412 SF of Dining Facilities; 7,166 SF Battalion Headquarters Facility; 20,555 SF Company Supply / Admin Facilities; 9,938 SF BN Maintenance Shelter Facility. The design of these facilities includes state of the art maintenance operations and equipment programing combining sustainable design practices and technologies. Exterior site components were integrated into the design to include storm retention, heavy-duty military paving design, Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) paving, vehicle barriers, and components as required for accommodating ATFP criteria.

Fort McClellan, Anniston, AL

Anniston, Alabama

FOLEY, ALABAMA

Size: 15,259 SF

Cost: $4.1M

Completion: 2018

In February 2016 JMR+H completed the design for a new Vehicle Maintenance shop (VMS) in Foley, Alabama. This Army Vehicle Maintenance Shop consists of three main functional groups:  administrative, work bays, and storage. Supporting these main functional groups are the special training and support areas.  Within each group are subordinate functional areas that contribute to the operation of the group. Circulation and structural space are allocated to each project based on the size of the other authorized spaces. The administrative group consists of spaces for offices and maintenance support. Supporting spaces include such functions as the administrative support rooms, inspection library, production control, small arms repair w/ vault, classroom areas, break room, and the entrance lobby.

ANNISTON, ALABAMA

Cost: Phase I- $14M, Phase II- $16.6M                                Completed: Phase I- 2007, Phase II- 2013                          Size: Phase I- 95,454 SF, Phase II- 88,230           

Phase I

This facility included Administrative facilities for nine (9) units, a command suite, fully functional state-of-the-art Joint Operations Center, assembly hall, multiple classroom facilities with included AV storage and infrastructure, unit locker room facilities, unit storage facilities with secure mesh partition separations, fully functional maintenance training facility, POV Parking and Military Parking Achieved Spirit Silver Sustainable Design Goals.  2007 – Alabama National Guard Ft. McClellan Readiness Center Phase I, SPIRIT Silver.
 

Phase II

This addition to the facility included: Administrative facilities for additional units, multiple classroom facilities, unit locker room facilities, and unit storage facilities with secure mesh partition separations. 2013 Phase II Alabama National Guard Ft. McClellan Readiness Center, LEED Silver.

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA

Cost: $36.4 M
Size: Approx. 201,107 SF
Green Certifications: LEED Gold

Phase I Building #1
The First Level (57,480 SF ): Assembly (Drill) Halls, Distance Learning Center, Simulation Center, Supply Rooms, Locker Rooms, Classrooms, Kitchen, Maintenance Training Facility, etc. The Second Level (42,895 SF): Office / Administrative Areas and The Medical Detachment Unit.

Phase I Building #2
The First Level (26,477 SF): Unit Storage Rooms, Supply Rooms, Locker Rooms, Classroom Space, etc. The Second Level (22,255 SF): Office / Administrative Areas.

Phase II Building #1
This new AFRC is 45,461 SF and includes two major components – a Special Forces Equipment Pool Facility and Readiness Center functions to house two Special Forces Units – Support Company 20th SFG and The Chemical (CML) Detachment.  The Special Forces Equipment Pool Facility includes areas designated for maintaining Special Forces Airborne and Waterborne Operations equipment and supplies, including an SF Parachute Drying / Storage Tower, including POV & Military Parking.

ALEXANDRIA, ALABAMA

Cost: $6.7 M
Size: 34,000 SF
Green Certification: LEED Platinum

The Pelham Range Armed Forces Reserve Center, an Army Reserve and National Guard facility for logistics, weapons, and unit administration training is the state’s first LEED Platinum building. As a role model for sustainable construction, it received the 2012 Clover Award from the Leed Green Building Council. 

The building achieves an energy cost savings of 38 percent, with efficiency measures including an improved thermal envelope, reduced interior lighting power density, occupancy sensors, high efficiency geo-thermal pumps and on-site renewable energy – a photovoltaic panel field that generates 12 percent of the projects energy cost.  By embracing green/sustainable technologies, strategies, and design, the National Guard will save approximately $80,000 over the next 20 years in this facility.