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Rx for Alamo City's army medical site
(Medical
: San Antonio)
9/2/2008
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The work involving the construction or renovation of 78 major facilities is taking place across San Antonio at Fort Sam Houston, Camp Bullis and Lackland and Randolph Air Force bases through September 2011. San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, one of the Army's oldest active installations, has the distinction of being the future center of the military's medical training programs. All enlisted medical training programs of all branches of the U.S. military including medics, corpsmen and nuclear medicine technologists, will be brought to one location for training at the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC), a 1.9 million-sf complex on Fort Sam Houston. The Fort Sam Houston campus will eventually host 45,000 medical students a year, drawn from all services. The METC complex will include 1.2 million sf of instruction and lab space and will be one of the world's largest medical training institutions, featuring three dorms and five instructional facilities by 2011. The effect of BRAC on the San Antonio economy reaches beyond the military installations. According to the study, San Antonio is expected to receive more than 4,000 new personnel, 5,500 new families due to the program. Through 2011, BRAC will have an economic impact of $5.7 billion and support employment of more than 46,000 due to the impact of construction. After 2011, BRAC's impact will support the employment of more than 11,000 additional people, providing an additional $621 million economic impact. Contracts scheduled to be awarded in the 2009 fiscal year total more than $400 million. Average expenditures for military construction in the San Antonio are between $65 million and $100 million annually. For a map of future projects at Fort Sam Houston, visit http://texas.construction.com/features/archive/2008/0808_feature1.asp. View "Map of future projects at the Fort Sam Houston" under the related links section.
[Texas Construction]
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