Design – Construction – Operations
ADELANTO, Calif. — The grand opening of the Adelanto Detention Center expansion project is scheduled for Feb. 6 and will debut the additional 1,392 beds being added to the existing 706-bed Adelanto facility.
Correctional News interviewed leading architects about the current trends and future challenges of the correctional building industry. Gerald Guerrero, AIA, senior vice president for CGL; Mike Retford, vice president, west regional leader of justice for HOK; and Darrell Stelling, AIA, principal for DLR Group each shared valuable industry knowledge from the design perspective. Here are some of the questions they answered that didn’t make the design roundtable article being published in the January/February issue. Stay tuned for the full feature in January.
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SAN FRANCISCO — On Sept. 12, members of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Northern California Chapter gathered to learn more about the San Francisco Department of Public Works Justice Facilities Improvement Program.
ADELANTO, Calif. — Initially designed to add 896 beds, the expansion of the Adelanto Detention Center will include an additional 1,368 to meet the demands of the California realignment act.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A lot of change is set to happen in Forsyth County, as plans are moving forward on a major construction project.
Building Deep Relationships and Offering Fresh Vision to the A/E/C Correctional Arena
They spring up, sometimes in surprising places, as a practical, needs-based response to an age-old problem.
HOK architect Gregory Cook has plenty of acronyms behind his name including AIA, LEED, and AP. But Cook recently added CCHP — Certified Correctional Health Professional — to his list of accreditations making him the first architect in the United States to earn a professional certificate in the field of correctional healthcare.We talk with Cook about the designation and about what he sees as the future of correctional healthcare architecture.
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