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Show HILLTOP TIMES 6 TIMES August 12, 2010 RANGE it was not unusual for the guns to generate 100 pounds per square From page 5 inch of pressure," said Anthony Joseph, field inspection technician for waves from the guns, the Corps. "That had to actually increasing the be remediated down to 3 pressure generated due pounds per square inch to a "stacking" effect of to be within acceptable the shock waves, which limits." would degrade the infrastructure of the building Original specifications and risk the safety of the called for a building with people working in the utilities, parking, shop building. space and an earthen berm on all sides of the "We worked with the range. acoustical team from Brigham Young UniverA system had to be sity," said Greg Crosby, designed to minimize PE, quality control projthese impacts. But how to ect manager from the provide such a unique facontractor, HHI Corporacility and still stay within tion. "We did a lot of field budgetary limits? testing and modeling to Constructing a buildkeep the design requireing that would ameliorate ments within budgetary all of the force generated limits." by the guns would have been prohibitively expen"Tests revealed that sive. "The solution was to design and construct a building that funneled and broke up the incredible sound and shock waves generated by the guns, with special emphasis placed on the 30 mm gun, which had never been fired at an indoor range," said Jason Redeen, Project Engineer for the Sacramento District of the Corps of Engineers." Once the shop space and range were constructed the acoustical engineering team from BYU returned for testing. The results were positive, but because of information gathered about the 30 mm gun the team concluded that the range itself would not be adequate to contain the affects of the 30 mm gun without additional measures." (( We had a few late nights trying to figure out how to solve these problems," said Don Hokanson, CEO of HHI Corporation, who led the design and construction team that built the facility. Robert Smith, HHI Corporation Vice President and Design/Build Manager, added: "One night I thought of an old James Bond film in which Bond used a silencer on his gun. " This is exactly what the team designed and Chef Curtis Connelly's Eclectic American Dining American Classics & Gourmet Specialties Appetizers • Salads • Soups • Sandwiches Wraps * Burgers * Gourmet Entrees See RANGE I page 7 Dine In • Take Out • Cateri/ty /1:00 am - 0:00 pm Monday - Saturday E.BrentJeppe*on>s u Arts Center & Restaurant 801-726-9865 Offer good for balance transfers from other financial institutio and New Visa Card Accounts from .-^- Courtesy photo Visitors wander through Building 746 at the open house as they examine details down in the tunnel. , ArpromiCMilit. 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