Friday, January 30, 2009 | Modified: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 12:00am
Contractor has new name and Hawaii’s biggest defense project
Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Janis L. Magin Pacific Business News
Courtesy DCK Pacific Construction, LLC
DCK Pacific has a $176 million contract to build the first phase of the $318 million Hawaii Regional Security Operations Center near Wahiawa. The center will replace an underground facility in Kunia that was built during World War II.
A well-known construction company with an unfamiliar name tops PBN’s list of the top 25 defense contractors in Hawaii.
Dick Pacific Construction Co., which has been doing business in Hawaii since 1939, became DCK Pacific last year in a restructuring of Pittsburgh-based parent company Dick Construction Co., which is now known as dck worldwide.
In Hawaii, DCK Pacific – the DCK stands for “diversified construction knowledge” – led the pack in the list of defense contractors with almost $176 million in Hawaii contracts awarded by the U.S. Navy in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2007, for construction of administrative facilities and service buildings.
The $176 million actually was one contract, awarded to Dick affiliate Shaw-Dick Pacific LLC in April 2007, for the first phase of the Hawaii Regional Security Operations Center at Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific.
The $318 million Hawaii Regional Security Operations Center in Central Oahu is the military’s largest construction project being built in the Islands, one of the largest projects under construction in the state, and also was the largest design-build contract award for the company then known as Dick Pacific.
The facility being built at a 700-acre Navy site just outside of Wahiawa includes a 250,000-square-foot, two-story operations and data center facility, a visitors control center and a warehouse building as well as infrastructure such as roads, parking and utilities. It will replace the Kunia Regional Security Operations Center, an underground facility built during World War II.
Construction on the project, which entails approximately 500 people, started in 2007 and is expected to be finished in the fall of 2010.
DCK Pacific’s parent company, formerly known as Dick Corp., decided in 2004 to pursue more government and military work. Under its new name, it is looking to focus on high-end resorts, federal contracts and property development.
DCK Pacific’s other recent military projects in Hawaii, as Dick Pacific Construction Co., include the $80 million regional headquarters for the U.S. Pacific Command at Camp H.M. Smith., which opened in 2003, the Multiple Deployment Facility Complex at Wheeler Army Airfield, the Mission Support Training Facility and Information Systems Facility at Schofield Barracks and the C-17 Strategic Airlift Ramp and Clear Water Rinse Facility at Hickam Air Force Base.
Roger Peters, executive vice president/general manager of DCK Pacific, says the company believes military and other government projects will help everyone get through the current economic downturn.
“There’s high standards for safety and performance on military jobs, an even higher threshold that makes it tougher for a lot of other contractors to compete in that arena,” said Kyle Chock, executive director of the Pacific Resource Partnership, a joint program of the Hawaii Carpenters Union and some 220 unionized contractors, which include DCK Pacific. “Past performance is also something that they really look to.”
Number One
DCK Pacific
Defense contractors – ranked by fiscal 2007 contracts
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