The Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, reported on Wednesday that a $34 million building complex largely completed in 2012 will never be used and in all probability will be destroyed.

The Special Investigator General John Sopko says that the building situated in Southern Afghanistan is yet another “potentially troubling example of waste.” The letter that was sent to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other senior military leaders on Monday was made public by the office on Wednesday.

Despite objections by military commanders and military officials saying in 2010 that the command and control center complex in Helmand province was not needed, the military tapped British firm AMEC Earth and Environment to begin construction in 2011 and the complex was largely completed in 2012.

According to Defense Department Spokesman George Little, the letter to Hagel asking for responses to Sopko’s questions about the complex is under review. Little says that he is not sure if Hagel will have a formal response and points out that it will take a little time to review.

The 6,500-square-yard facility with the office capacity to accomodate 1,500 staff underwent further improvements as late as this year even as Camp Leatherneck’s perimeter is due to shrink making the complex unprotectable. Sopko stated that even as the military commanders knew that the troops that the building was constructed for were never going to arrive in the country, the construction continued.

Sopko says that the military will have only two options for the facility, either hand it over to the Afghan government or to demolish it.

It was pointed out by Marine Corps Times writer Daniel Lamothe that the building’s electrical system is wired for U.S. voltage and not Afghan voltage and so would become too unwieldy for the Afghan government to run. He also pointed out that the complex is very distant from the government’s seat of power in Kabul.