K&S ASSOCIATES AWARDED $14.4 MILLION CONTRACT TO BUILD NEW ARMY RESERVE TRAINING CENTER IN GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS

St. Louis, Missouri …The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, has awarded a $14.4 million contract to K&S Associates, Inc. of St. Louis to build a new Army Reserve Training Center in Granite City, Illinois, about six miles northeast of St. Louis, to accommodate 600 reservists.

The new, 70,000-square-foot Training Center will include an Organizational Maintenance Shop (OMS), Area Maintenance Support Activity Building (AMSA), General Purpose Warehouse (GPW), Unheated Storage (UHS) Building and Potable Water Building (PWB).

Completion of the new Training Center, situated at the U.S. Army Charles Melvin Price Support Center near the Mississippi River Chain of Rocks Canal in the Tri-City Regional Port District, is scheduled for summer 2009. Granite City is located in Illinois’ Madison County.

The project architect for the new Training Center is RSP Architects, Ltd. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, assisted by EVS, Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minnesota (civil); Van Sickle, Allen & Associates, Inc. of Plymouth, Minnesota (structural); Damon Farber Associates, Inc. of Minneapolis (landscape); and Gausman & Moore of St Paul, Minnesota (MEP).

Thomas J. Kraska, president of K&S Associates, Inc., said, “Our entire team is very proud to be part of this important construction project which will support the mission of the U.S. Army Reserves.”

The Corps of Engineers’ Louisville District, one of the more diverse districts in the U.S., has both a civil works and military construction mission. Its civilian workforce includes professional engineers, architects, planners, economists, biologists and other specialists and support staff working in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. The military construction mission supports U.S. Army, Air Force and Department of Defense facilities within 306,000 square miles in the five-state area. The civil works boundary encompasses nearly 76,000 square miles of the Lower Ohio River Basin.

K&S Associates, Inc. was founded in 1972. In addition to full-service general contracting, the company manages complete Design/Build projects and provides comprehensive construction management services for building projects in virtually every construction industry sector, including commercial/industrial, healthcare, military support, government, education, recreational and ecclesiastical.

K&S Associates, Inc. headquarters are at 516 Hanley Industrial Court, St. Louis, Missouri 63144-1902.

For more information, please call Paul D. Sharkey, CFM, Director of Pre-Construction Services & Facilities, K&S Associates, Inc., at 314.647.3535 or visit the website www.ksgcstl.com.

Media relations contact for K&S Associates, Inc.: Jeff Dunlap at 314.993.6925.

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