Alaa Jafar, US Army Corps of Engineers Kuwait Area Program Management Office project engineer (center), discusses project plans with a local construction contractor following the groundbreaking ceremony for a US$39.9 million initiative to deliver five multi-functional warehouses for Kuwait鈥檚 35th Brigade at the 35th Armored Brigade Base in Kuwait. (Image: US Army/Catherine Carroll/USACE Transatlantic Division)

The nearly US$40-million initiative will construct five 鈥渕ulti-functional鈥� warehouses at brigade site, some of which will house Abrams tanks.

Leading the effort is USACE Kuwait Project Management Office project engineer Alaa Jafar. She said, 鈥淭his project involves the construction of five new pre-engineered metal building system warehouses.

鈥淓ach warehouse is designed to house 44 Abrams M1A2K tanks and 4M88 recovery vehicles, providing state-of-the-art facilities to support the 35th Brigade鈥檚 mission readiness.鈥�

Each facility will span about 7,800m².

An Abrams tank in training in Latvia (Image: Adobe Stock)

Awards for the work were announced last June, with Kuwait-based Alghanim International General Trading and Contracting Company receiving a fixed-price contract for construction worth $39,993,492.52.

A groundbreaking was held in late January.

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