Next NGA West

Next NGA West is a large-scale construction project that will build a new facility for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St. Louis, Missouri. This £1.4B project is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and executed by McCarthy HITT Joint Venture, with oversight by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Air Force. When complete, the campus will include a 65,000-square-meter office building, two multistory parking structures, a visitor center, a delivery inspection facility and secure entrance/exit points. The staff of 3,150 will move from their current Soulard, St. Louis in 2025.

Working with the McCarthy HITT Joint Venture, Lerch Bates is providing Critical Building Enclosure Commissioning services including:

• Building Enclosure Inspection Checklists
• Building Enclosure Test Matrix
• Building Enclosure Commissioning Plan
• Design & Commissioning Meetings
• Technical Peer Review Services
• Document Resubmission Reviews
• Shop Drawing & Submittal Reviews
• On-site Quality Assurance Observations
• Field Performance Test Witnessing
• Air Barrier Performance Testing per ASTM E 779 and ASTM E 1827 Standards
• Systems Manual & Training