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  • April

    Engineering students from the University of Louisville visit the site of the Louisville VA Medical Center April 13, 2023.

    Engineering students visit LOUVAMC construction site

    Louisville, Ky. – Engineering students from the University of Louisville had the opportunity to visit the site of the new Louisville VA Medical Center where they were given an overview of the project as well as a site tour April 13.
  • Cecil M. Harden Lake Hosts Open Houses for Shoreline Management Plan Update

    Cecil M. Harden Lake hosts Open Houses for Shoreline Management Plan Update

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District in the process of updating the Shoreline
  • Louisville District Deputy Commander gets promoted to lieutenant Colonel

    Louisville District Deputy Commander gets promoted to lieutenant colonel

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Deputy Commander Col. Jason
  • U.S. Army Col. Jared Bordwell, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) chief of staff, U.S. Army Col. Larry R. Dean, 406th Army Field Support Brigade commander, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dwayne M. Terry, Army Field Support Battalion-Campbell commander and Mark Bean, Installation Maintenance Division chief perform the ceremonial ribbon cutting at a ceremony marking the completion of the Army Field Support Battalion Maintenance Complex

    USACE completes maintenance complex for Army Field Support Battalion at Fort Campbell

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers delivered a 117,034 square-foot maintenance complex to the Army Field Support Battalion during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, March 15, 2023. The project, with a programmed amount of $44.7 million, consisted of the construction of four general purpose maintenance facilities that includes an allied shop building, engine auto shop, production control building and a paint booth building. The project also included 42,110 square feet of concrete parking.

  • March

    Tara O’Leary, who is now the Deputy Chief of the Veterans Affairs Division and Louisville VAMC project manager, attends a management meeting on the site of the Louisville VA Medical Center March 21, 2023.

    Former co-op student now leads District’s current largest project

    Louisville, Ky. – With hard work and perseverance, anything is possible, just ask Tara O’Leary. Little did she know that when she started working for the Louisville District in 1996 that she would one day be leading the team on one of its mega-projects. O’Leary, who is now the Deputy Chief of the Veterans Affairs Division and Louisville VAMC project manager, started her journey with the district as a co-op student while attending the University of Louisville to study engineering.
  • This photo shows dozens of concrete pillars placed in one of the excavation sites on the property. These form the framework for the stormwater collection tank.

    Stormwater management key to successful construction

    Thousands of things must be considered and planned for in the construction of a complex facility like a new hospital and the multiple support facilities they require. Of course, many of the decisions involved are essential to guaranteeing the new facility can provide the best quality care for patients – ensuring their health for years to come. One consideration that may not come to mind to the average person for such a facility is how to preserve the environment underneath and around the new construction. This includes the construction of a rainwater drainage system so as not to disrupt the way water moves after large amounts of rainwater accumulate from storms.
  • USACE completes, turns over new maintenance hangar at Grissom Air Reserve Base

    USACE completes, turns over new maintenance hangar at Grissom Air Reserve Base

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District successfully managed the completion of a new
  • The Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, who serves as the non-federal sponsor for the Louisville Metro Flood Protection System Reconstruction Study, conducts a tour of the Beargrass Creek Pump Station in Louisville, Kentucky.

    USACE receives federal funding to advance Louisville Metro Flood Protection System Reconstruction Project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District has received $1 million in federal funding to

  • February

    David Helfrich poses for a picture with his family.

    New Scott AFB Area Engineer takes the reigns

    David Helfrich is a name familiar to personnel at the Scott Air Force Base resident office. He was in that role for five years since he began his career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, January 2018. Helfrich takes the helm as Scott AFB Area Engineer from Jay Fowler, who retired December 2022.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District Emergency Management Chief George Minges and Emergency Management Planner Jeff Brooks wrap a levee with plastic during flood fight training, Feb. 9, 2023 in Frankfort, Kentucky.

    Levee Safety and Emergency Management collaborate to provide flood fight training to City of Frankfort

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District Emergency Management personnel provided flood fight training to members of the City of Frankfort Street Division, Feb. 9, 2023, in Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • More than 70,000 cubic yards of earth materials have been reused in multiple ways in construction of the Louisville VA Medical Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

    Re-used materials add value to construction project

    Since the beginning of construction of the Louisville VA Medical Center in December 2021, the site has seen a lot of change and one of the most noticeable early changes was it going from a 35-acre grassy field to much of the earth materials being collected and sorted in large piles on the south side of the property. What some may think of as waste materials - the expected leftovers from earthwork, isn’t going to waste. In fact, more than 70,000 cubic yards of material have been reused in multiple ways in construction on the site.
  • Will Jasper is a Quality Assurance Specialist working on the Louisville VA Medical Center project and student at the University of Louisville's J.B. Speed School of Engineering.

    Co-op student following in father’s footsteps working at USACE

    Being a member of a team can often feel like being part of a family, and sometimes team members actually are family. That’s the case for Will Jasper and his father, Kevin Jasper.

  • January

    National Roofing Program inspects Army Reserve facilities following Hurricane Ian

    When Hurricane Ian hit south Florida last fall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers worked in