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USACE prepares site for temporary elementary school in Lahaina

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District
Published Nov. 27, 2023
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team member Dale Carton installs a Wi-Fi router in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team member Dale Carton installs a Wi-Fi router in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built. The facility replaces a school that was destroyed in the Hawaiʻi Wildfires, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui. The USACE is tasked by FEMA with oversight of design and construction of the school.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team member Dale Carton installs a shelf for a Wi-Fi router in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team member Dale Carton installs a shelf for a Wi-Fi router in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built. The facility replaces a school that was destroyed in the Hawaiʻi Wildfires, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui. The USACE is tasked by FEMA with oversight of design and construction of the school.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team members Ryan Meersman and Dale Carton install a shelf in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team members Ryan Meersman and Dale Carton install a shelf in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built. The facility replaces a school that was destroyed in the Hawaiʻi Wildfires, Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui. The USACE is tasked by FEMA with oversight of design and construction of the school.

U.S. Army corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team members Dale Carton and Ryan Meersman complete set up and installation of printers and a WiFi router in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built.

U.S. Army corps of Engineers CIO/G6 Enterprise Emergency Response Team members Dale Carton and Ryan Meersman complete set up and installation of printers and a WiFi router in a construction trailer at the site where a temporary elementary school is being built. The facility replaces a school that was destroyed in the Hawaii Wildfires Aug. 8, 2023, in Lahaina, Maui. The USACE is tasked by FEMA with oversight of design and construction of the school.

Site work recently began for the installation of a temporary elementary school in Lahaina, Maui, to replace one lost in the Aug. 8, 2023, Hawaiʻi Wildfires.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received a mission assignment from FEMA on Sept. 30, 2023, to design the facility and oversee construction. The Notice to Proceed for contractor Pono Aina Management, LLC, of Waianae, Hawaiʻi, was issued Nov. 20, 2023, and shortly thereafter the trailers and heavy equipment began arriving on site.

A USACE Enterprise Emergency Response Team was at the site Nov. 25 installing the necessary information technology hook ups and equipment to make on-site work trailers fully functional for personnel.

“Today we’re moving the Starlink Wi-Fi router from the back room of the trailer to a more central location for better connectivity in the trailer,” said Ryan Meersman who is the records manager for the Hawaiʻi Wildfires mission. “We’re also setting up the printers and the phones.”

USACE personnel will be on-site in the trailer managing the work that includes design of site, construction (grading, utility installation, etc.), and initial six month leasing of modular units with options to extend for up to five years at an additional cost.

The EERT is a function of the USACE CIO/G6 branch that provides information technology solutions to help the agency accomplish its primary mission, such as the Hawaiʻi Wildfires federal, state, and local recovery and response.