National Personnel Records Center
Protecting the past with structural secure designs.
Project Facts
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Owner | General Services Administration |
| Size | 507,000 SF |
| Status | Completed |
| Certifications | LEED certified |
Overview
The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) opened in 2011 and has been preserving and protecting records ever since. During the development of the facility, Walter P Moore worked with the GSA to ensure easy access to records, employee safety, and top-notch building security were part of the facility.
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About the project
The National Personnel Records Center contains over 50 million personnel records for military and civil service federal employees, dating from the early 20th century to the 1970s. It’s the largest national archives facility outside of the Washington, D.C. area.
Delivered through a design-build leaseback procurement, the NPRC includes a state-of-the-art file preservation laboratory, a large public research room, and a multi-purpose room for meetings and public outreach. The records storage area has three levels of high-density shelving and catwalk grating for 385,000 shelves on 29-foot tall stacks. The facility also includes robust environmental controls for the protection of sensitive and historic records.
Due to the extremely sensitive archives as well as the personal and military files that are housed in the facility, Walter P Moore worked with the GSA to implement several structural secure design measures to protect the documents. The lateral structural system utilized custom tilt-up wall panels designed to provide progressive collapse resistance as well as a more ductile system for seismic, wind, and blast resistance.
