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  • Going Green: Ancient technology helps Corps build green at Presidio

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Egyptians did it. So did the Romans. Now, at the Presidio of Monterey in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is using the same ancient practice to meet modern-day, green-building requirements.

  • Going Green: Corps-built homes in the LEED

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- On military installations throughout the nation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built hangars, fire stations, barracks and homes in a sustainable, energy-saving way, saving taxpayer dollars and working in collaboration with other federal agencies and partners.

  • In-house design helps transform California military post

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An abandoned airplane hangar with just four instructors, 60 students and only one language was how the school began in San Francisco. Around the same time the school was starting its life, a small, 170-year-old military post about 100 miles south was going through yet another renovation: serving as a reception area for the U.S. Army's III Corps.

  • Colorado regulatory office has new, energy-efficient home

    The Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building in Grand Junction, Colo. is now on its way to being the first federal building under the U.S. General Services Administration to achieve a net zero energy rating.

  • Corps of Engineers pays tribute to veterans, wounded warriors with day of fishing

    More than 20 veterans and their family members, along with more than 30 volunteers, took part in the first "Take a Warrior Fishing" event at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Eastman Lake near Raymond.

  • From horseshoe to "shukran"

    The new general instruction building at Presidio of Monterey in Monterey was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District in March 2012.

  • Corps uses a 'greener' method of mowing the lawn

    It began with four thousand legs. In the last month, it's grown an additional two hundred. It decimates every area it's brought into but, then again, that's exactly the point.

  • Sacramento District completes $13 million addition at VA medical facility

    A new surgery floor addition at the Grand Junction Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center officially opened March 23 in Grand Junction, Colo. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District oversaw construction of the $13 million addition.