Compliance Manager / QCM

The Cyber & Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) at West Point is a ~145,000-sq-ft, four-story facility designed for STEM education, opened Q1 2026 academic year. The $400M project, situated south of the Central Area, features a structural steel frame with granite and limestone cladding to match historic Gothic architecture, connecting to Mahan Hall via a new bridge.

Key Construction and Structural Details

Structure

Structural steel frame with concrete masonry unit (CMU) backup walls and an air/vapor barrier.

Facade

Features a “Gothic style” exterior including natural limestone veneer, granite veneer, structural precast arches, and aluminum curtain walls, complemented by Tudor arches and buttresses.

Site Challenges

Construction required the removal of 300,000 cubic yards of granite, involving significant blasting to prepare the site, according to a report from the AFBA

Expansion

Includes a four-story structure, a multi-story underground parking garage, and a “Gateway” bridge connecting the facility to Mahan Hall.

Internal Facilities

Features high-bay areas with overhead lifts for robotics and drones, laboratory spaces, and a three-story, light-filled atrium with glass walls, notes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Cyber and Engineering Academic Center (CEAC) at West Point is a modern academic facility that will enable and inspire collaboration across engineering disciplines. The CEAC will house the engineering laboratory functions of the Departments of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Systems Engineering together under one roof. This 136,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility will facilitate a powerful and broad impact within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) scholarship and industry.

The CEAC will:

Modernize the Academy’s engineering, technology, and mathematics capabilities, and will include laboratories with support space, project fabrication spaces, high bay areas with overhead lift, work spaces, conference rooms, spray booths, and an assortment of other advanced capabilities for our engineering disciplines

Help to compensate for significant shortages in academic space relative to industry standards in higher education and Army space authorizations that cannot otherwise be acquired by other means such as renovation and modernization

Enable us to remain at the forefront of engineering education, putting us in a far more advantageous position to compete for the most talented and innovative cadets and civilian faculty.

Set critical conditions to enable our broader Academic Building Upgrade Program (ABUP) by creating much-needed space to enable the programmatic and logistical aspects of our mission throughout execution of the ABUP program

The CEAC’s award-winning design will provide wide-open, state-of-the-art spaces for project-based learning and designing/building solutions to real problems, resulting in a modern learning environment that encourages collaboration across the artificial boundaries created by organizational structures and physical spaces. This will allow the Academy to achieve a modern, adaptable, and inspirational level of engineering education that simply cannot be achieved in the current 1960s-style academic buildings/classroom spaces.

Functional Highlights:

The Redoubt:A 4th-floor expansion designed for collaborative space with views of the Hudson River.

Departments:Houses Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Systems Engineering.

Project Completion- Controlled explosive Demolition of granite mountain and construction began in December 2020, with 95% completion by December 2025

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