Rockwell Hall gets makeover Published Sept. 5, 2012 By Airman 1st Class Jake Eckhardt 375th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Rockwell Hall construction is scheduled to be finished Sept. 18 at Scott Air Force Base. Bricks from the building are being removed because the shelf life of bricks had been exceeded and were starting to break apart from the building. Randall Mcgeehon, 375 Civil Engineer Squadron structural repair foreman, said, "The bricks were put on the building during the late '70's. It was a new type of brick that was used to cut cost." Thin-bricks were the type of bricks used on the building. It was a half-inch thick brick with a Styrofoam and plastic backing. The cost of this style of brick was cheaper than real brick. The shelf life of this style was 20 years. "We have been working on this building for about two years trying to keep the brick attached," said Mcgeehon. "We finally convinced them to let us paint the building instead of trying to upkeep the brick." CES had logged approximately 550 hours of upkeep on the building within the two years. To keep the building repaired, it has cost roughly $30,000. The building has been under construction for a month, and it is estimated that it will be complete within three weeks. It will ultimately be painted sand tan and cocoa brown. "We had two goals in mind for this project," said Senior Airman Josiah Drown, 375 CES structural journeyman. "We wanted to make the building aesthetically pleasing while saving the Air Force money."