Emcor Awarded Contract for California LEED Project

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation awarded an Emcor Group subsidiary the mechanical systems contract for a new $146 million medical building at San Quentin State Prison.

Marelich Mechanical, of Hayward, will design, build and install plumbing, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems for the 116,000-square-foot, five-story medical building.
The 50-bed Central Health Services Building, which will be designed for LEED certification, will help improve inmate healthcare services, from medical to dental to mental health, officials say.

Scheduled for completion in 2010, the facility will feature outpatient and specialty clinics, laboratory and pharmacy services and medical records space.

The project, which will replace existing structures at the prison, will preserve the façade of the prison’s historic original hospital building that was built in 1885.