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Bids Solicited for Illinois Courthouse

December 27, 2010 1846 Views Central U.S., Hillsboro, LEED for Schools

SYCAMORE, Ill. — Officials in Dekalb County are seeking bids for a $14.5 million expansion of the Dekalb County Courthouse.

Gilbane Building Co. of Chicago is the construction manager for the project, which consists of approximately 36,000 square feet of additional courthouse and office space on four levels that will adjoin the existing courthouse structure.

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Oklahoma Courthouse Gets Green Light

November 30, 2010 2038 Views Hillsboro, Reform

ANADARKO, Okla. — Residents of Caddo County have passed a bond issue approving construction of a new $12 million county jail project.

The 180-bed addition, which will span more than 56,000 square feet, includes detention locks and hardware, security windows, security hollow, metal doors/frames, security glass, glazing and security furnishings. The electronics scope includes control systems, control panel, intercom/paging system, a CCTV system, access control and video visitation.

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Construction Starts on Trenton Courthouse

July 2, 2010 1797 Views Hillsboro, NYU

TRENTON, N.J. — Local, county and state officials broke ground on a new $52 million courthouse following the settlement of a long-running dispute between competing bidders on the project.

In addition to criminal courts, the new 141,000-square-foot building — the largest public project ever undertaken in Mercer County — will house a drug court, the sheriff’s office, probation, case management services, and administrative and records space.

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Three-State Navajo Construction Plan

February 26, 2010 2157 Views Hillsboro, Management & Training Corp., People in the News

FARMINGTON, N.M. — The Navajo Nation Tribal Council approved a $60 million unsecured general obligation loan that will go toward the construction of 13 judicial complexes and detention centers in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

The Key Bank loan, coupled with a $74 million grant from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and millions of dollars set aside by the Navajo Nation and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, allowed the tribe to begin construction in March.

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$300 Million PPP Courthouse

February 26, 2010February 26, 2010 1915 Views Cornell Cos., Hillsboro, People in the News

LONG BEACH, Calif. — California is set to become the testing ground for the delivery of major high-threat public buildings through public-private partnerships as state judicial authorities move into the final selection phase for the proposed $300 million U.S. courthouse here.

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County Unveils HOK Courthouse Design

February 25, 2010 1881 Views BIM, Hillsboro, Wisconsin

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Bucks County will soon break ground on the largest construction project in county history — a new $100 million justice center.

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Court Order

December 29, 2009January 14, 2010 2202 Views Furnishings/Fixtures, Hillsboro, Niagara Falls justice complex, Washington D.C., Western U.S.

BRIGHTON, Colo. — Adams County officials recently marked the completion of a $28 million expansion of the six-story county and state judicial building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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County Approves Courthouse Tower Plan

December 3, 2009 1974 Views Hillsboro, Maintenance/Operations, Washington County Jail

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — County commissioners recently approved a revised plan to replace the 50-plus-year-old Broward County courthouse with a 17-story, 675,000-square-foot tower that is expected to cost $270 million.

Circulation and access control in the existing courthouse, which was built in 1960 and expanded in the 1990s with the addition of two new wings, do not meet current standards for safety and security. The courthouse houses civil, criminal, juvenile, county and circuit courts, and the offices of the court clerk and court-related programs.

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Omnibus Earmark Sparks San Diego Project

December 2, 2009 2195 Views Hillsboro, Security and Safety

SAN DIEGO — The new U.S. courthouse proposed for downtown San Diego moved a step closer to reality as President Barack Obama signed a $410 billion omnibus-spending bill.

The federal appropriations package included a $110 million earmark for the San Diego courthouse, bringing total federal funding for the project to almost $370 million.
The funding will allow officials to move the project bidding process forward, sign construction contracts and reignite the long-stalled courthouse expansion.

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GSA Design Awards: Oregon Courthouse Scores Multiple Honors

December 1, 2009 1955 Views effective housing for at-risk inmates, Hillsboro, inmate housing, Security and Safety

WASHINGTON — Oregon’s Wayne Lyman Morse U.S. Courthouse and the San Francisco federal building scooped the top architecture honors in the 2008 General Services Administration’s Design Excellence Program.

The GSA’s 2008 biennial design awards, released in March, recognize 18 federal projects with awards and citations for design, art and construction excellence. The Morse courthouse in Eugene, Ore., and San Francisco’s federal building, both designed by Morphosis Architecture, received the architectural honor awards.