Atkins Selected To Design Elite Command and Staff College for U.S. Army; 13,000-student Military Graduate School at Fort Leavenworth Among World's Finest.Business Editors OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2002 Atkins Americas (www.atkinsamericas.com) has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (www.usace.army.mil) to design the new Army Command and Staff College (www.cgsc.army.mil) at Fort Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth (lĕv`ənwûrth'), U.S. military post, 6,000 acres (2,430 hectares), on the Missouri River, NE Kans., NW of Leavenworth; est. 1827 by Col. Henry Leavenworth to protect travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. The oldest U.S. , Kansas. The four-story, 389,000 square foot electronic-intensive classroom and war-fighting laboratories building - including a 1,750-seat auditorium - will replace the existing Bell Hall, which will be demolished de·mol·ish tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es 1. To tear down completely; raze. 2. To do away with completely; put an end to. 3. . "It is a great honor and privilege for our company to be selected to design what is arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. the finest professional military graduate school in the world," said Lance Benham, Atkins Americas Senior Vice President. Established on January 26, 1882 as the School of Application for Cavalry and Infantry, the CGSC develops officers able to lead fighting units at the tactical and operational levels of war. The CGSC trains more than 13,000 officers annually through its resident and non-resident programs. Students include Army active and reserve commissioned officers, international officers and officers from other branches of the U.S. military. The new CGSC will be designed as three separate wings for classrooms, faculty and administration, and an auditorium wing, with main floor and balcony seating. A central hall will link the three wings around a four-story atrium atrium (ā`trēəm), term for an interior court in Roman domestic architecture and also for a type of entrance court in early Christian churches. The Roman atrium was an unroofed or partially roofed area with rooms opening from it. . The classroom wing includes 92 distance-learning capable classrooms stacked on four levels, with faculty office space directly across the hall. In support of the classrooms, the wing has a language laboratory, presentation rooms, a computer lab, bookstore and cafeteria. The administrative wing includes a 200-seat auditorium, a main lecture hall lecture hall n → sala de conferencias; (UNIV) → aula lecture hall lecture n → amphithéâtre m , a Digital Leader Development Lab and secure classrooms. The design will incorporate the latest Department of Defense Anti-Terrorism Standards for Buildings. Oklahoma City-based Atkins Americas includes Atkins Benham - an architectural, engineering, design/build, and operations/maintenance firm - and Atkins Hanscomb Faithful & Gould, a construction management and project services company. Atkins Americas has 33 offices staffed by 1,400 professionals in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Atkins Americas is a member of the Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) group of companies. Founded in 1938, Atkins is a total solutions provider for the building industry, with offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Headquartered in Epsom, United Kingdom, Atkins is traded on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (ticker - ATK ATK - Andrew Toolkit .L). |
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