The $160 million New Patient Facility at the Hawaii State Hospital is a four-story, 144-bed, 196,944-square-foot secured psychiatric facility on an existing psychiatric hospital campus. At the foot of the Ko’olau Mountain Range, this facility includes patient care units, a rehabilitation mall, multiple office spaces, a standalone central utility plant, a separate gymnasium for recreational therapy, and a site elevator with a walkway bridge structure. Due to the ever-increasing patient population and a high percentage of high-risk forensic patients, the existing hospital could not keep up with the demand, and a larger facility was needed. The project was executed using the design-build delivery method led by Hensel Phelps.

This Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQ) project is a $60 million multi-story housing complex for enlisted military personnel. In addition to sleeping rooms, the facility includes an entry vestibule, quarterdeck, multi-purpose rooms, classrooms, laundry areas, and other support spaces. The T-shaped building results from multiple studies that considered site orientation and access, parking layout, view planes for future expansion, and more (Figure 1).

The U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam is undergoing a massive transformation as part of a multi-billion-dollar realignment of Okinawa-based U.S. Marines throughout the Pacific. Once completed, the new Marine Corps Base Guam will be in the village of Dededo, but supporting facilities are being constructed at various locations around the island. One such facility is the first U.S. Marine Corps aviation support and maintenance hangar on Guam and is located at the North Ramp of Andersen Air Force Base. The new hangar is a 72,500-square-foot, $53.7 million facility that supports Marine Corps aviation squadrons. The project was delivered by Naval Facilities Engineering System Command as a design-build procurement. Designing for resiliency is essential on this remote island – regularly subjected to strong typhoons, large earthquakes, and a highly corrosive tropical environment. Equally important is ensuring the design can be efficiently constructed using limited available local labor and resources.