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    REM workshop 2022

    REM workshop assists with prioritizing work according to policy

    The Resource Efficiency Managers in attendance are all contracted “employees” whose sole purpose is improving their assigned installation’s energy programs by identifying projects and practices to reduce energy and water costs.

  • Construction continues on Canandaigua VA hospital project

    Work continues on multiple projects across the campus of the Canandaigua VA Medical Center, as visitors can notice the work on new facilities and upgrades to current buildings across 75 percent of the hospital’s grounds.  The work is being done thanks to recommendations from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) program noting that the decades-old facilities were being underutilized, said Gerry DiPaola, USACE Project Manager for the Canandaigua VA Medical Center construction.
  • Two prospective engineering majors at Dartmouth have been able to jump-start their careers through an internship program at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire.

    Dartmouth interns gain research experience at ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

    Two prospective engineering majors at Dartmouth have been able to jump-start their careers through an internship program at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire.
  • Three high school interns surrounded by their mentors. Left to right, architect Lymarie Torres Rodriquez and mechanical engineer Chad Crosbie; students Sebastian Rincon-Camacho, Mikayla Balio, and Chloe Koren; and civil engineer and manager of TAM’s high school intern program.

    USACE mines local schools for hidden gems

    Transatlantic Middle East District (TAM) continues his support of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics through its High School Intern Program, most recently increasing to three interns for this most recent semester. The partnership benefits the students through their exposure to a professional work and engineering environment, challenging their preconceptions while expanding their skills. The collaboration benefits Team TAM through increased understanding of and potentially piquing interest in a career with USACE.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District’s new client is the U.S. Space Force. The District has been tasked with creating a design for their new headquarters building at Osan Air Base, South Korea. (Courtesy photo)

    Engineers in South Korea design U.S. Space Force headquarters ‘from scratch’

    Often in construction, existing design concepts are used to inspire new builds, but that’s not the case for the first U.S. Space Force (USSF) headquarters at Osan Air Base, South Korea.