The year 2009 marked the midpoint and high-water mark in a seven-year-long flood of work at the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, with $27.7 billion in construction on the military-programs side and $15.6 billion on the civil-works side. Its leaders say the Corps is able to keep up and improve delivery in large part through implementation of a program called MILCON Transformation.
Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. “Bo” Temple is credited with being the teeth behind MILCON Transformation, which was developed at headquarters when the pipeline of anticipated work began to bulge in 2004. It established centers of design standardization for many facility types in Corps districts around the country and used “adapt-build” to localize designs for construction. It makes extensive use of design-build and leverages economies of scale in base development.