by Brianna Crandall — April 27, 2011—The U.S. General Services Administration broke ground April 21 on the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field office building located at 5425 West Amelia Earhart Drive, Salt Lake City. The new field office, which serves Utah, Montana and Idaho, will provide modernized technology and better security, and will gather dispersed FBI employees into one office building.
The project is expected to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The state-of-the-art, standalone facility will be four stories tall, containing about 160,000 square feet. It will require more than 4 million pounds of steel and 7,000 yards of concrete. The building will showcase an ornamental staircase capped by a pyramid-shaped skylight, providing natural light deep into the interior of the building.
The $75 million project, expected to be complete late summer 2012, is part of a 10-year FBI/GSA acquisition program aimed at replacing or modernizing 39 FBI field offices and four major resident agency facilities across the country, mainly through build-to-suit lease construction.
M.L. Harris & Co. of Oklahoma City and KDC Development, a Dallas-based commercial real estate and investment firm, are joint owners and developers of the design-build project; they will share responsibilities for construction and management throughout the process. The architect is Rees Associates of Oklahoma City, and the general contractor is VCC Construction of Atlanta. GSA—on behalf of the FBI—will lease space under a 20-year firm term.
