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Tetra Tech is the lead engineer for the design of the Overhead Coverage System (OCS) Program. This program, to protect U.S. Military troops from mortar and rocket attacks, involves the design and construction of force protection structures for selected facilities at multiple locations in Iraq. Since 2005, Tetra Tech has designed more than 100 OCS structures—nearly two million square feet of overhead cover protection.

These first-of-a-kind structures were designed by Tetra Tech in close coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Transatlantic Programs Center, the USACE Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), and the USACE Protective Design Center (PDC). Using design criteria established through an intense force protection research program conducted by ERDC and criteria established by PDC for the prevention of progressive collapse, Tetra Tech provided full A/E services to design structures that could be built using commercially available materials and in remote locations where access to equipment and skilled labor was very limited.

This program involved protective structures for multiple geographically dispersed locations throughout Iraq. Most of the facilities were located in remote, austere, and in many cases, very hostile war zones.

Highlight:

This project won the 2009 Building Project of the Year Award from the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), New England Chapter.

It also won the 2007 Platinum Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), Massachusetts Chapter, and was recognized as a National Finalist in ACEC’s nationwide Engineering Excellence Awards.