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7 days agoDoD’s Barracks Crisis Highlights Rapid-Construction Potential at Fort Bliss
A Pentagon-led inspection found mold, water damage, insufficient hot water, and inadequate cooling in military barracks, with some service members reportedly sleeping in cars. Fort Bliss’s 3D-printed barracks project offers a construction benchmark—10 buildings for up to 560 people, reportedly delivered in about nine months at 9.3% below conventional construction costs—but no open solicitation is identified.