Location: Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Client: Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic Division
Size: 13,000 SF
Cost: $4,350,000
Completion: 1995

This facility houses abrasive blasting and painting operations for a variety of work boats, tugs, and causeway sections up tp 102 feet in length and 105 tons. The sections are transported by a straddle lifter from an adjacent waterfront slip into the buildings' blast/paint bays. The two bays are 40 feet high by 40 feet wide by 117 feet long, and each accommodate bath blasting and painting operations.

Special systems include: rail-mounted straddle lifter, abrasive blasting, grit reclamation, respiratory air, dust collection, spray painting, industrial ventilation, compressed air, and safety alarms. This facility is designed ot minimize negative environmental impact from the blasting and painting operations. The project was executed as a design-build project.