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Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, home to the 4th Fighter Wing and nearly 100 supersonic fi ghter jets, enjoys some of the military's most advanced technology and equipment. The base's medical clinic, which serves a community of nearly 13,000 people, is vintage 1950s. After nearly a year of design and project planning, the outdated clinic is undergoing a $60-million makeover to modernize it and make it ready to provide the base's military personnel and their families with top-of-the-line medical care. The new 107,000-square-foot medical clinic — about 10,000 square feet larger than the existing clinic — will have two fl oors and serve 18 dif erent clinical disciplines, including family health, physical therapy, pediatrics, pharmacy, mental health, optometry and a clinical lab. Flight surgeons and other fl ight readiness specialties will have dedicated spaces as well. The work at Seymour Johnson, located just outside Goldsboro, North Carolina, is just one of dozens of similar projects — the work is being done under the auspices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — to renovate and modernize the aging and obsolete healthcare facilities on military bases around the country. Heery International is providing Design-Build services at several bases, including Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Robins AFB in Macon, Georgia and Travis AFB in Fairfi eld, California. Serving a purpose The U.S. military relies on a two-tiered system of medical clinics and hospitals to meet the healthcare needs of its servicemen and women and their families. Almost every post has a multipurpose medical clinic to handle routine primary care on an outpatient basis. Elsewhere, at a smaller number of bases, the military has specialty hospitals, such as the Army Burn Center in San Antonio, Texas, to handle inpatient care. While some branches of er distinct clinics for servicemen and women and a separate set of clinics for their families, the Air Force has one network for personnel and their families. In the Air Force, then, these clinics need to not only meet the health- care needs of the airmen, but they also need to provide family centric care, including the range of primary care medicine that any family might need, from summer camp checkups to treat- ment for injuries and illnesses. Langley: Rion Rizzo/Creative Sources; Rendering: Heery International. ISSUE FOCUS The 107,000-square-foot renovation at Seymour Johnson AFB will serve 18 different clinical specialties. Most of them can be reached from this light-fi lled central corridor. The project is due for completion in December 2016. POPULATION PLANNING Meeting the needs of today's military populations BY JOHN STONE PROTECT AND SERVE As the four service branches work to modernize their clin- ics, the goals are two-fold. The fi rst is to ensure that American servicemen and women and their families have access to the same level of care they could get at a civilian medical center. The second is to ensure that forces are in top physical shape to serve their country when called upon. The buildings are expected to have ef cient, fl exible and smartly designed interiors that incorporate the latest thinking into evidence-based medicine. They are expected to be sustain- able as well, with a stated goal of being at least LEED Silver, relying on high-ef ciency systems and green features such as vegetated roofs, as is the case at Seymour Johnson, or rainwater capture and reuse. The second goal is to better meet the mission of the military, which is ultimately to protect and defend the nation. As a rule, 38 Medical Construction & Design | M AY/ J U N E 2015 | MCDM AG.COM