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Going West for Work: Firm Gets $15.4M Project on Isolated Island

The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest has awarded a $15.4 million task order to San Diego-based T.B. Penick & Sons Inc. to construct bachelor quarters at San Clemente Island.

Agency spokesman Lee Saunders said the project, awarded Sept. 1 under the federal Recovery Act, will include designing and building bachelor quarters at the island’s naval auxiliary landing field. Savings from another Recovery Act bachelor quarters project awarded last year provided money for the current project.

In a Sept. 8 statement by the engineering command, project manager Tommy Baniqued said there is currently no off-base housing available on the isolated island, about 70 miles west of San Diego. Existing living quarters, dating to before World War II, are inadequate due to aging and overcrowding.

T.B. Penick will construct three two-story buildings with 53 two-person units. The project, set for completion by February 2012, will meet certification and sustainability standards of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

— Lou Hirsh

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