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Project: Gagetown Combat
Training Centre
As work at Goose Bay progressed, preparations were
being made for an even larger project, with the award
of a consultant contract for final design of the Combat
Training Centre at Gagetown. This was a facility for Mobile
Command (the land forces, or army), where they would
be able to train infantry, field artillery and armoured
officers, consolidating schools in one central location.
Project: BATUS and GATES
The late 1980s once again saw DCC active in Suffield at
the British Army Training Unit (BATUS) and in Shilo at
the German Army Training Establishment (GATES).
Contracts were awarded for barracks and support
facilities at both locations, with work funded by these
“visitor” NATO nations. A $1.8 million tank support
facility at BATUS was finished during 1988–89, the same
year that a $5.5 million engine repair and test facility at
GATES was completed.
The $56 million project was scheduled to begin in the
summer of 1988, and incorporated phased construction
planning in order to save time. The first phase was
completed in 1988–89, and Phase II, involving the
foundation and structural steel, was awarded that same
year. By 1992, the completed project was handed over
to the Army.
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