P855 Expeditionary Combat Skills Student Berthing

The new P855 Expeditionary Combat Skills facility, used for the Bachelor Enlisted Quarters for the Naval Construction Battalion Center, is a three-story, 43,000 SF steel-framed building with perimeter masonry walls and brick veneer. Due to the extreme environmental conditions in Gulfport, Mississippi, the design criteria required the design to resist hurricane loads of 160-psf, soil classification Type E soils, and a seismic design category C. The Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection standard also required the building to be designed for progressive collapse, accomplished through the tie-force method.

2023 Structural Engineers Association of Arizona Merit Award Winner.