DMC Enterprises Brings Down Nine Buildings at Camp Pendleton 1st Marine Division Operations Complex By Brian Hoover, Senior Editor
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aval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) South recently awarded Harper Construction Company, Inc. of San Diego a $42.6 million contract for the design and construction of a division operations complex at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton. Construction will include a new 58,931 square foot Division Command Post Headquarters, an 11,538 square foot Battalion Command Post Headquarters and parade field. Other project features include paving and other site improvements such as new paving, parking areas, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, landscaping, trash enclosures and signage. 18
Above: Loading concrete for processing on Camp Pendleton demo project.
Before any new construction could take place on this Camp Pendleton project, the existing nine single-story concrete buildings and nine temporary trailer buildings had to be demolished and removed. Harper Construction Company subcontracted all of the demolition and grading responsibilities to DMC Enterprises (DMC) out of Vista. Tim Mountney has been overseeing all demolition and grading operations on the project, serving as estimator, project manager and project engineer. “Our contract for demolition and grading began in Sept. 2021 and will be complete by the end of Feb. 2022,” says Mountney. “We started by removing trees and other
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landscape material. Next, we moved on to the surface demolition to include parking lots, sidewalks, curb and gutter and other outside structures. In all, we demoed around 80,000 square feet of space that made up the nine existing concrete barracks buildings.” DMC then moved to the interior, where their crews essentially removed everything but the concrete. The removal of asbestos and other hazardous materials was subcontracted to another contractor, while DMC performed all further demolition and material segregation. “The buildings were all concrete exterior, including the roof. Our crews first removed all of the wood, drywall, copper, and C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M
