...were designing the facility, the Navy decided to squeeze another child-development project on same site,” he says. “So there will be three child centers under construction on the same one-acre site at the same time by three different contractors on North Island. That is a real challenge.”

He says the most complicated part will be finding lay-down and storage space for everybody’s materials, deliveries, and jobsite trailers.

“It’s a coordination drill,” Roach says. “Everybody wants to say ‘Well I only have a contract with the Navy; I don’t have a contract with you and I don’t have to listen to you,’ so it’s a matter of getting the contracts people in each organization to understand we have to work together.”

The child centers broke ground last month and when complete in January, they will seek a LEED silver rating.

Also at Naval Base Coronado, Barnhart is constructing a two-story, 35,800-sq-ft training facility for Special Operations Forces. Designed by San Diego-based KMA Architects, the project will feature training rooms and offices on the second floor and boats storage garages on the first floor, with surrounding parking.

The project broke ground in February and is expected to complete by December 2010.

Over at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, Barnhart is renovating and upgrading two seven-story enlisted personnel housing structures that were built in the 1970’s. Expected to be complete by June 2011, the 22-month-long project received $11 million per building in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

The project is being designed by Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker of San Diego.