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The Federal Bureau of Prisons added a 555,000-square-foot component to its Coleman, Florida Federal Correctional Complex (FCC, Coleman). Clark/DLR Design Build, Inc., a joint venture between the Clark Construction Group of Tampa and The DLR Group of Tampa, served as design/builder on the project.
The facility features facades of concrete with punch windows and includes 260,000 square feet of housing for inmates. The exterior fenestration unifies the facility. Six individual mezzanine level housing units and a two-level segregation unit with administration and support services were required.
Perimeter circulation and connection is provided by a corridor connecting all housing units to food, medical/dental, religious and psychological services, as well as vocational training, visitation and administration. Engineering systems are coordinated for integration within the envelope both structurally and architecturally. Six-perimeter guard towers, double rows of high security, detention fencing and one interior compound guard tower also were built.
This project is the third for Clark at the Federal Correctional Complex at Coleman. In 1995, Clark completed a 923,000-square-foot low and medium security complex. In January 2001, the Clark/DLR completed the first high-security penitentiary at FCC, Coleman. It was the first project delivered to the Federal Bureau of Prisons using the design/build method.
The project team included Alta Consulting Services of Kirkland, Wash., security electronics; FP&C Consultants, Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., Life safety engineering; Marshall Associates of San Francisco, foodservice; and Post Buckley, Schuh & Jerigan, Inc. of Orlando, civil engineering. The DLR Group designed the architectural, mechanical, electrical and structural systems.
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