Best Manufacturing: Bell Helicopter Aircraft Assembly Facility
Bell Helicopter selected BE&K Building Group to provide construction services for its newest world-class aerospace assembly facility, built on a 14.5-acre site at Lafayette Regional Airport. The facility assembles the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X—Bell’s newest commercial helicopter.
In order to bring the facility quickly online to meet growing back orders for the helicopter, the team developed a design-assist strategy. It tied design and construction closely together and allowed work to begin while design was still underway.