U.S. Air Force Solutions Lifecycle
Kleinfelder brings over 50 years of technical and program delivery to help address the unique challenges of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) mission and programs. Our successful delivery of architecture, engineering, and science services continues to enhance the USAF’s ability to maintain its military readiness, as well as respond to its social and environmental commitments.
PROJECT LIFECYCLE SERVICES
Our extended capabilities, coupled with our early project knowledge, enables success over the lifetime of your project.
Commissioning
Enhanced building or facility commissioning to optimize systems operations and minimize lifecycle costs.
Data Management
Lifecycle data and records management, through design, construction, maintenance, and operation to shutdown.
Facility Management
Operations of small-scale facilities or maintenance of closed bases/installations.
Asset Management
Inventory and lifecycle management of project infrastructure.
STRATEGIC SERVICES AND INITIATIVES
Kleinfelder’s objective is to align itself as a trusted advisor to DOE and its M&Os. We provide a variety of services and initiatives to meet this objective.
Health and Safety
Kleinfelder operates an auditable company-wide Loss Prevention System.
Economic Development
With over 60 offices nationwide, the USAF is ensured of Kleinfelder’s contribution to local and regional economic development initiatives.
Sustainability
Kleinfelder provides LEED certified architects/engineers to design low energy usage and water conserving facilities, while enhancing mission capabilities.
Small Business Partnering
Kleinfelder maintains strategic partnering initiatives, including Mentor-Protégé relationships, with both certified 8(a) and small business concerns.
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
Kleinfelder’s services continue as the Owner’s Representative, once the project moves from the design-permitting phase to the construction phase.
Constructability Reviews
BIM modeling, cost reviews, regulatory permit reviews, schedule and procurement plan reviews.
Design Build
Cost Plus or Guaranteed Maximum Price approaches.
Construction Materials Inspection and Testing
Destructive and non-destructive testing, concrete testing/ inspection, soils testing, construction inspection and reporting, mobile laboratories.
Construction and Program Management Support
On-site observation, construction administration, resident engineering, site coordination/ management, document control, QA program oversight.
PERMITTING SERVICES
Kleinfelder’s permitting services span from local municipal and tribal entitlements through complex state and federal regulatory frameworks and consent order compliance.
Remedial Systems
CERCLA/RCRA studies, fate and transport, soil and groundwater remediation system design and operations, data acquisition and reporting.
Environmental Compliance and Permitting
Meteorological monitoring/data acquisition, dispersion modeling, cultural resource management, natural resource studies/ restoration, land use planning.
Groundwater Monitoring
Alluvial and deep monitoring well program development, including design, installation, and sampling, regulatory technical report development, wellhead completions.
NEPA Compliance
Initial studies, environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, relation studies.
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES
Understanding the unique nature of USAF installations and sites enable us to enhance mission requirements through sustainable designs, low project lifecycle costs, and minimized environmental impact.
Geo-Engineering
Geotechnical investigations and engineering, foundation engineering, seismic analysis, slope stability analysis and design, excavation assessments, rock engineering, and geo-mechanics
Systems Optimization and Retrofits
Facility condition assessments, equipment retrofits, fuel system upgrades, lifecycle analysis, maintenance program assessments.
Water Resources
Dewatering systems, hydrogeologic modeling, surface hydrology/hydraulics, facility water audits, pump/conveyance systems, water and wastewater treatment systems
Civil Works Design
Building and utility/site components 3D BIM/CAD modeling, energy efficient/LEED certified military facility designs.
EARLY STAGE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
These services have proven successful in understanding both opportunities and constraints, to ensure project viability and for supporting effective decision making.
Audits and Assessments
ISO compliant quality assurance audits, vendor/supplier pre-qualification audits, program assessments, facility condition assessments, and sustainability audits.
Natural Resource Studies and Planning
Biological, air, wetland, cultural, and water studies and planning.
Site Characterization and Investigation
Geotechnical and environmental site investigations, surface/ subsurface characterization, quality objective data management, geophysical surveys, and reporting.
Program Support
Cost estimating and cost engineering, environmental baseline studies, conceptual designs, and readiness review preparation.
