Fort Liberty Conference and Catering Facility

Designing an Army Base’s Social Center
Fort Liberty, North Carolina

We provided design-build, architecture, and engineering services for the Fort Liberty Conference and Catering Center (formerly Fort Bragg), a nearly 50,000-square-foot building designed to support the army base's increasing number of meetings, conferences, social events, and recreation activities. We designed the building to be efficiently constructed on a secure site while meeting antiterrorism/force protection criteria.

50,000

square feet

The facility features a 6,000-square-foot kitchen area where a high-volume lunch buffet service can cater up to 2,000 meals per day. The grand ballroom can be subdivided into smaller meeting rooms using operable wall partitions. Board rooms, administrative facilities, and ancillary space can accommodate up to 1,250 personnel and include state-of-the-art audio/visual and computer capabilities. Our architects performed charrettes, studies, design reviews, agency/commission coordination, and designed an interior fit-up, while our engineers designed the site's stormwater management and roadway systems as well as the building's structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, security, and audio visual elements.

Our sustainable design strategies included heat island management and an energy-efficient mechanical system within a high-performance building envelope that incorporated materials with high-recycled content.

Owner

Fort Liberty

Client

Centennial Contractors Enterprises, Inc.

Square Footage

50,000 SF

Cost

$14.5 million

Services

  • Architecture
  • Engineering

Markets

  • Federal

Regions

  • Southeast