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093831 1 (1973-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxgu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D C 20548 LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION MAY 3 1 1973 Lt General Frederick J Clarke Chief of Engineers Department of the Army Washington, D C 20314 Dear General Clarke By letter dated June 30, 1972, we advised the Secretary of the Army that the General Accounting Office was making a multi-agency survey of the use of value engineering incentive programs for con- tractors and sub-contractors as a means of reducing costs of Federal construction projects (Code 945004) During the survey and the follow-on review (Code 945013) we noted that certain medical facil- ities being constructed by the Corps of Engineers for both the Army and the Air Force employed plaster wall construction in dry areas where gypsum wallboard could have been substituted at significant cost savings to the Government without affecting the utility of the structures Contributing toward this use of plaster was Department of Defense (DOD) Construction Criteria Manual 4270 1-M, dated March 1968, which specified extensive use of plaster walls in medical facilities. In October 1972 DOD Construction Criteria Manual 4270 1-M was revised to allow the military construction agencies more flexibility in selecting materials for wall construction in medical facilities However, as our audit progressed, we noted that certain Corps of Engineers field offices continued to specify and use plaster in wall construction despite the revision to the manual. For example, we found that the Mobile District of the Corps was requiring plaster walls in the construction of medical dispensaries. The Sacramento District Office of the Corps identified for us the following medical facilities which the Corps was constructing for the Air Force and itself for which plaster wall construction was extensively specified 1 Composite Medical Facility, Hill AFB, Utah, 2. Utah Dental Clinic, Ft. Lewis, Washington, 3. Medical Clinic, Sierra Army Depot, California, and 4. Medical Facility, March AFB, California.

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