Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Maintenance Facility held at Camp Smith on Tuesday, Nov. 24

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An architects drawing of the new Combined Support Maintenance Shop at Camp Smith Training Site

CAMP SMITH TRAINING SITE, CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y. (11/23/2015)(readMedia)-- The New York National Guard will formally begin work on an $18 million state-of-the-art maintenance facility here on Tuesday morning.Members of the press are invited to attend the ground-breaking ceremony.

WHO: Major General Patrick Murphy, the Adjutant General of New York, and Camp Smith staff

WHAT: A traditional ground breaking ceremony to mark the construction of the $18 million Combined Support Maintenance Shop at Camp Smith Training Site. The facility will support Army National Guard units in the Hudson Valley, Long island and New York City. It replaces a facility built in 1949.

WHEN: 10 a.m., Tuesday. Nov. 24, 2015

WHERE: Camp Smith Training Site, Route 202 (Bear Mountain Bridge and Hook Road) Cortlandt Manor (just north of the intersection of Route 202 and Route 9)

Media Opportunities

Traditional ground breaking ceremony with special shovels. Major General Murphy will be available to speak with media and members of the Division of Military and Naval Affairs engineering staff can answer specific questions about the project.

Members of the press must contact Sgt. Michael Davis at 914-944-6522 for access to this secure military facility.

BACKGROUND

The New York Army National Guard's new Combined Maintenance Support Shop will be a 40,830 square foot masonry and insulated metal structure which will incorporate 30,000 square feet of maintenance space and 11,000 square feet of administrative and support space.

The $18 million building was designed to support the Army's newest vehicles and equipment. The facility will include three general purpose work bays, an inspection bay and a welding bay, as well as a washing bay.

The new facility will incorporate an energy efficient design and be illuminated with state of the art LED light fixtures and light control technology. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning system also incorporates state-of-the-art technology to save energy.

The building will incorporate radiant floor heating in the work pays and also utilize geothermal heating and cooling in the administration areas.

These design measures, as well as the use of renewable and sustainable materials in the construction resulted in the U.S. Green Building Council giving the project its Silver rating.

The facility will replace a 31,000 square foot building that was constructed on Camp Smith in 1949.

The facility is designed to provide maintenance support for about 1,200 wheeled vehicles assigned to Army National Guard units across South-Eastern New York. These vehicles are used for training and to support the Guard's emergency response mission.

The project was designed by QPK Design, a Syracuse company which designed the 199,342 square foot Armed Forces Reserve Center the New York Army National Guard shares with the Army Reserve and Marine Corps and Navy Reserve in Farmingdale on Long Island.

Contractors awarded the contract are:

• S & L Plumbing & Heating Corp of Brewster, N.Y. which has a $1.49 million contract;

• Global Electrical Contracting of Westchester, Inc., located in Yonkers which has a $2.4 million contract;

• S & O Construction Services, Inc. of Pleasant Valley which has a $2.1 million contract;

And Darlind Construction, Inc. of Lagrangeville, which has a 12. 6 million contract to build the facility.

The New York State Office of General Services is overseeing design and construction contracting and management of the project.

The new facility is expected to be open for business by December 2017.

The New York Army National Guard had initially intended to build a larger 75,000 square-foot maintenance facility in Stormville in the Town of Beekman on state property adjacent to Greenhaven Correctional Facility. Federal budget constraints, though, required the project to be redesigned so that it is smaller and makes use of existing infrastructure.