When CooverClark & Associates designed the $34-million Wyoming Air National Guard’s new aviation support facility in Cheyenne, the Denver-based firm married functionality, technology and energy efficiency with a lodge feel that WANG hopes will enhance recruitment/retention and provide a comfortable home to support training and aircraft maintenance operations.
“I’d put this facility up against any of the military facilities, active or reserve,” says Lt. Col. Loren Thomson, project manager with the Wyoming Military Dept., the project owner. “You would have a hard time finding another that could match this facility for energy conservation, presentation and functionality. I don’t think there are many that could come close. You don’t build these kinds of buildings all the time.”