In a positive effort to “keep things local”, 2 Williamsburg (VA) firms - Leebcor Services and Guernsey Triangle Architects – are joining forces to construct a new storage facility for the Army Transportation School at Fort Lee, according to an October 30 post on dailypress.com.
The new 17,000-square-foot storage and training facility is expected to be complete in late 2010.
According to their website, Leebcor Services, LLC is an emerging leader in the federal design-build construction marketplace. Leebcor is a service-connected disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) providing the federal government a full range of construction services including:
· Design Build
· General Construction
· Utilities and Site Work
The company with whom they are partnering, Guernsey Triangle Architects, has been in business for one quarter century. According to their webpage, their “designs are contextual, drawing from the Mid-Atlantic region and the sites in which (we) work… incorporating thoughtful sustainability into (our) projects for a generation.”
The U.S. Army Transportation School began as Branch No. 4 of the Army Administration Officer Candidate School (OCS) in August of 1942 at Mississippi State College in Starkville, Mississippi. However, the curriculum was insufficient for the needs of both the Army and the Transportation Corps, so by January, 1943, the operation of the school was transferred to the Office of the Chief of Transportation, where the curriculum was revised and the name changed to the Transportation Corps Officer Candidate School.
During World War II, transportation training centers existed throughout the country, but by March, 1946, the Chief of Transportation ordered the school moved to Fort Eustis, Virginia, where it was renamed the U.S. Army Transportation School.
In 2005, the Department of Defense recommended realigning Fort Eustis by relocating the Transportation Center and School to Fort Lee (Virginia), where it proudly remains today.