Build-to-Suit Facilities for Northrop Grumman under Construction

Two build-to-suit facilities leased by Northrop Grumman, one of the largest defense contractors in the world, are under construction in Huntsville, Alabama. The project team includes general contractor Robins & Morton, Corporate Office Properties Trust and Powers Brown Architecture.

The two buildings, located in Huntsville’s Redstone Gateway development, total 236,000 square feet and stand five stories tall. Construction began in February 2021.

The buildings are primarily concrete structures, built using a tilt-wall process. Robins & Morton poured, then erected, 76 concrete panels earlier this fall to assemble the building’s exterior structure. The team used a 1.9 million pound crane to safely erect 48 four story, 60-foot-tall panels and then stack the remaining 28 single-story, 17-foot-tall panels. In total, the panels weighed more than 9.5 million pounds.

Despite the complexity, the construction team raised the final panel on Aug. 27, 2021, completing the structure in just six months.

Now the team is working to finish the exterior skin and interior buildout of each building. The two-building campus will include a 144,000-square-foot parking garage and is scheduled to complete in the second half of 2022.