At Naval Academy, construction crane could be school mascot : Millions of dollars being put into field house, dining hall, sports center

Nothing says "construction" like piles of rebar waiting to be cast in concrete. And right now there's a lot of rebar piled around the Naval Academy.

The federal government is spending $47 million to build the new Wesley Brown Field House, and $24 million to rehab King Hall, the school's 1953 dining facility.

On top of that, private donors are building the academy a new $18.5 million indoor tennis and hockey center across the Severn River on Greenbury Point.

Future projects, to be undertaken as soon as funds become available, include modernizing and possibly expanding Nimitz Library in 2012, and giving Rickover Hall a...