Develop Specifications for the Construction of Vietnam Battle Maps Using the Earley Process

Added: Jun 29, 2011 3:22 pm

The ABMC’s requirement is for an architect, an engineer (“battle map A&E”) or other firm capable of developing the construction process specifications, process instructions and quality control team that would be used to solicit the fabrication services and ensure the quality of the final product. 

The (ABMC) intends to create battle maps, to honor the service, sacrifice and achievements of the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam conflict, at its memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The goal is to build polychromatic concrete mosaic maps identical to the World War II and Korean War maps that are currently at the memorial.  The existing maps were built in the period between 1969 and 1971 by Earley Studios in Manassas, Virginia.  An example of one of these maps is attached.

The maps would be built as precast concrete panels, which would be fitted into a new pavilion to be built at the ABMC’s Honolulu Memorial (http://www.abmc.gov/memorials/memorials/hn.php).  Conceptually, the new pavilion would sit on a foundation roughly 14 feet by 14 feet in dimension.  The maps would rest on two separate walls and would fit into two panels, which would be roughly 10 feet by 10 feet in dimension.  The two panels might include multiple maps along with text and graphics, similar to the existing maps for WWII and the Korean War.

As a part of this project, the ABMC will hire a consulting historian, an artist to develop the drawings of the maps, a local architect (in Honolulu) that will design the two new pavilions, and a local contractor (in Honolulu) that will build the pavilions and install the new battle maps.  These team members will be independent of the hired battle map A&E but will work together to design the maps, solicit the maps fabrication, successfully construct the new pavilions and install the new maps.  The goal is to complete the project by November 11, 2012.

The selected battle map A&E would be highly experienced in the process used by John Earley and the Earley Studio.   This Request For Proposal (RFP) is to solicit proposals from qualified and interested firms.