St. Louis, Mo., August 2, 2010 – The United States Army Corps of Engineers has selected S. M. Wilson & Co. to build a new Digital Training Facility at Ft. Leonard Wood in south-central Missouri. 

 

The $11.5 million, 64,000 square-foot educational building will house classrooms, simulation labs, lecture auditoriums, administrative areas, a loading dock and a storage warehouse with two elevators. The project is designed to be LEED certified, and the Army Corps of Engineers will seek the Silver rating in the LEED classification system once it is completed.

 

S. M. Wilson is providing general contracting services. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2012. Gossen-Livingston is the project’s architect.

 

S. M. Wilson recently established a federal government/military construction business group to grow this segment of the company’s business.

 

S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management, design/build and general contracting firm with headquarters in St. Louis and Rollins Construction Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S. M. Wilson, in Indianapolis. S. M. Wilson is one of the largest general construction and construction management firms in the St. Louis area, and was named a ‘2006 Business of the Year’ by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. The company posted $450 million in 2009 revenues, and ranks 149^th in Engineering News-Record’s 2010 list of Top 400 commercial contractors nationwide.

 

Founded in 1921, the company has built a reputation for high quality of work and outstanding financial and general project management expertise. The company is a proud member of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis and the Associated Builders and Contractors Heart of America Chapter, as well as the Construction Management Association of America, North America's only organization dedicated exclusively to the interests of professional construction/program management.