Granite Obayashi JV awarded $97M NAVFAC project in Guam
BY MAUREEN N. MARATITA Journal Staff
Military construction awards in Guam and the region proceed at a mixed pace.
One award will increase work at Polaris Point. This is the site of the Guam Detachment of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, according to Journal files.
Granite Construction announced March 11 CHamoru Standard Time from its Watsonville, California headquarters that the Granite Obayshi Corp. JV has been awarded “an approximately $97 million contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to improve the Battery Energy Storage System capabilities at Polaris Point, Guam.” The award was likely made by NAVFAC Pacific.
Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Minnesota arrived at its new Guam homeport Nov. 26, 2024. Photo from Journal files
The project scope includes constructing a 17,000 square foot facility and associated site work to house battery energy storage and a microgrid controller. The system will be interconnected with the existing electrical grid to provide clean power to the future Naval facilities, the release said.
Construction is expected to begin March 20 this year and be completed in June 2028, according to Granite.
That work at Polaris Point was due to be awarded in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. NAVFAC said at the time the project cost range was between $1 billion and $3 billion.
According to Journal files, the Granite-Obayashi 2 JV was one of seven companies awarded a combined $2.5 billion multiple award construction contract or MAC contract in March 2023 for work in Guam and other islands in Micronesia and elsewhere. The JV received the first task order at the time. See US defense funding, MilCon, Guam's admiral, and more.
The JV has received other military construction awards, to include early work on the site of Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz in Guam in 2017. Both companies have offices on the island.
In other construction news, a groundbreaking ceremony for the Guam Public Health Training and Biosafety Laboratory Facility at the University of Guam was held March 5. According to Journal files, the $32 million, 16,000-square foot project was funded by an Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation grant and is expected to be completed by June 2026.
The lab is being built by Reliable Builders Inc. of Guam, with HDR Engineering Inc. as lab planner and KHLG & Associates as project manager.
The event was attended by multiple leaders in Guam, including Gov. Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero, Rear Adm. Gregory C. Huffman, commander of Task Force-Micronesia, and Anita Borja Enriquez, president of UOG. mbj
