KC-46A Two-Bay Maintenance Hangar

March Air Reserve Base is located in Riverside County, California. It is the home to the Air Force Reserve Command’s Fourth Air Force (4 AF) Headquarters and the host of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing (452 AMW), the largest air mobility wing of the Fourth Air Force.  The KC-135 Stratotanker and C-17 Globemaster III are the current two weapons systems flown at the 452nd AMW. The KC-46A Pegasus aircraft is a recent addition to the 452 AMW. The KC-46A will support the 452nd AMW by assisting in air to air refueling operations and transporting essential cargo.

The KC-46A Two-Bay Maintenance Hangar project plans to construct a 156,895 GSF two-bay hangar with equipment storage and shops, POV parking, and utilities and sitework. Existing water, sanitary sewer, natural gas, and storm drainage networks are generally located in the immediate vicinity of the proposed hangar site and the utility lines will be connected to and/or relocated as necessary to provide utility service to the new hangar.

The Value Team brainstormed and developed ideas to facilitate the primary objective of the project being to construct a facility to accommodate maintenance operations of the KC-46A Pegasus aircraft.  These ideas led to recommendations to find value opportunities concerning the facility’s mechanical systems and lighting, the site utilities, grading, paving, and circulation, substructure, superstructure, exterior closures, and interior construction, and alternative concepts that would ease operations and reduce facility energy consumption