US Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center

Engineering Directorate

Huntsville Center provides several programs through the Engineering Directorate. Its Medical Facilities Mandatory Center of Expertise partners with Corps of Engineers Districts and Divisions to provide expertise for design and construction of medical facilities for DoD, other federal agencies and foreign governments.

Huntsville Center also develops medical design and construction policies, technical guidance, procedures, criteria, specifications and standards. The Center manages the project from initiation through 35 percent design.

The Environmental Program provides project design and environmental services focusing on investigations and remediation at DoD Superfund level CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act) and BRAC sites.

For more information, call  256-895-1900

Engineering Directorate Photos

Inspection
A technician prepares to go underground to inspect a tank at Kincheloe Air Force Base, a formerly used defense site in Kinross, Mich.
Design
The Engineering Directorate develops design and construction policies, technical guidance, procedures, criteria, specifications and standards. The Center manages the project from initiation through 35 percent design.
Compliance
Huntsville Center electrical engineer William Strong, kneeling, performs a Construction Compliance Inspection at a Qualification Training Range on Fort Irwin, Calif., in January. The Army has tasked the organization’s Range Training and Land Program to perform two mandatory inspections on new range construction before completion.
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Centers of Standardization
The $6.1 million Fort Bliss, Texas, Child Development Center opened in March 2013. Huntsville Center's Center of Standardization team provided standard design criteria, oversight, review and assistance for the project. One of eight Centers of Standardization for Army facilities, Huntsville Center COS is responsible for standardization of fitness centers, child development and youth activity centers, emergency service and fire stations and training and firing ranges, as well as urban assault courses.
Huntsville Center participates in local elementary school STEAM fair
John Nevels, a structural engineer with the Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville explains his role in the Explosives Safety Program to Mill Creek Elementary School sixth-grader Joey Crider during a STEAM event Nov. 10.
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