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Laughlin Air Force Base

The project provides an improved working and training environment to control and oversee air traffic. The new facility accommodates 25 personnel and provides state-of-the-art equipment to accomplish its mission. The facility is a 10-story structure, approximately 31.1 meters in height, containing 627 gross square meters. The design for the main tower is a rectangular shaft of precast concrete.

• Project management
• Civil engineering

Luke Air Force Base

The new tower design accommodates 54 square meters of floor area at the cab level and is located 36 meters above ground level. The air traffic control tower consists of a shaft of structural precast concrete inset between precast concrete columns at each corner. The catwalk and cab levels are structural steel framed with an overlay of architectural precast concrete. The structural steel tube columns, which support the roof above the cab, was designed to accommodate various conduits and drain pipes extending from the cab floor to the roof.

• Project management
• Civil engineering

Altus Air Force Base

The new tower design accommodates 54 square meters of floor area at the cab level. The cab is located approximately 31 meters above ground level.

• Project management
• Civil engineering

Sheppard Air Force Base

Garver provided design for the new base airfield operations complex, which consists of a precast concrete aircraft control tower and a one-story structural steel airfield operations building. The aircraft control tower replaced a 40-year-old structure to provide continuous flight operations at the airbase. The airfield operations building serves as the gateway to the airbase from the flight line as well as housing critical air traffic control equipment. Due to the height of the aircraft control tower, Garver provided a progressive collapse analysis of the tower structure. Based on this analysis, Garver designed modifications to the basic tower structure to accommodate the progressive collapse requirements.

• Structural engineering
• Civil engineering