Libraries of the World: The Library of Congress Ft. Meade Storage facility wins National Construction Management Award

In 2009 the team that managed the construction of the Library of Congress Ft. Meade High-Density Storage facility (Maryland) including representatives from the Library of Congress; Architect of the Capitol (AOC); the Baltimore District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were honored with a national award from the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA).

The new storage units will house 33 million items from the Library’s special-format collections, including 10 million manuscripts; 2.3 million prints, drawings, photographs and posters; 2.1 million music sheets; 542,000 maps and 1.8 million items from the collections of the American Folklife Center. The new sections were completed on schedule in June 2009—taking 28 months to build—and were within budget. Congress appropriated $40.7 million for the project.