Wallace Creek Regimental Complex

Wallace Creek Regimental Complex
Camp Lejeune, NC

Michael M. Simpson & Associates, Inc. (MMSA), provided structural engineering services for a new rapid design/build project comprising high quality permanent facilities within a 225-acre regimental complex serving over 3,000 Marines located within the secured perimeter of Marine Corp Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.  

The project consists of a two-story battalion headquarter building, multiple four and five-story barracks buildings, a dining hall facility, a telecommunications building, an armory, an Indoor Shooting Marksmanship Training Facility (ISMT), a Motor Transport Maintenance Facility, an Electronic/Communications Maintenance Facility, and a variety of infrastructure support facilities.   Also included was a vehicular bridge spanning more than 300-feet crossing over Beaver Dam Creek and a protected wetlands area located on the base.  The vehicular bridge consists of pre-stressed concrete cored slabs supported on cast-in-place concrete bents spaced at 50-feet intervals.  The cast-in-place concrete bents are supported on 12-inch square pre-stressed concrete piles.  The bridge was designed in accordance with the requirements of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design specifications for seismic performance Zone 1.

Size: 570,000 SF

Architect: LS3P Associates, Ltd.

Contractor: Caddell-Yates Joint Venture