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New York City’s Design-Build Delivery Journey

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While this article is focused on New York City’s jails story, it is shared in the context of the journey that every owner must engage in as they plan and implement an alternative delivery project. Delivering any project requires an interplay between the owner’s needs and goals and willing participants in the market such that builders and designers assess that they can successfully deliver the project’s scope and quality within schedule and on budget…while managing risks.

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The Importance of Trust in Project Management

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One would be easily forgiven for thinking that life is not one grand result but actually the sum of its parts. To some extent, every part of life is a project seeking a manager whether its buying a new house; planning a well-deserved holiday; or building a new jail in one of the New York boroughs. Satisfaction is achieved if the required decisions along are vested in trust; trust of the evidence, the effort, and the people responsible for the outcome. 

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Virginia Correctional Center Improves Through Restructure and Contraband Deterrence

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Through facility reorganizations, a zero-tolerance policy to drugs and contraband, enhanced community partnerships, and new leadership, the Virginia Department of Corrections’ (VADOC) Greensville Correctional Center reports continued improvement in its aim to provide effective incarceration that helps ensure long-term public safety in Virginia.  

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East-West and the Integration of Technology and Design

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Perhaps the rarified air at 35,000 feet while returning from the TIC (Technology in Corrections) and IPIC (Innovative Prison Infrastructure Conference) in Istanbul will bring clarity to a complicated, but essential topic that has been and will continue to impact the planning, design, equipping, and maintaining of correctional facilities. The planning for these two long-awaited consecutive conferences began before the global pandemic and involved members from the Technology and Planning & Design Networks of the ICPA. So, this is being written over the Atlantic Ocean. 

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