May 2013
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da, Maryland, Bell was tasked with upgrades
essential to a multi-phased modernization
program that had them installing new natu-
ral gas systems, the sanitary and storm water
systems, the telecommunication, steam and
electrical systems, as well as the construction
necessary to house four 5,000-ton centrifu-
gal water chillers and other auxiliary equip-
ment. At the Dept. of Energy’s Savannah
River Site in Aiken, SC, Bell served as the
Design/Build contractor in a project consol-
idating the area’s domestic water systems to
provide a singular source of treated domes-
tic water, an undertaking that involved water
distributed through a looped piping system
connecting more than 250 buildings with a
new water treatment facility and two storage
tanks ascending some 243 feet into the sky.
Bell also handled general construction
of the National Security Agency’s Super-
computer Center at Fort Meade, an 183,000
square-foot complex which at the time was
among the largest facilities of its kind in the
world. The company also performed the site
development for the F.B.I.’s fingerprint iden-
tification center in West Virginia. The list
goes on, and on. From the construction of
facilities at various military bases to medi-
