The 767,500 sf Toronto South Detention Centre (TSDC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada was procured by Infrastructure Ontario as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) Design Build Finance and Maintain contract (30 years). The TSDC was built to replace the Don Jail which was located on the south portion of the Mimico Correctional Centre property. It is a maximum security facility housing 1650 inmates. The facility utilizes a direct and indirect supervision model of offender management. This facility also contains the Toronto Intermittent Centre, accommodating an additional 320 inmates on an intermittent basis. These two units are operated independently but share a central plant, infirmary, kitchen, laundry, staff facilities and control takeover from the main central control room in the maximum security control room.

​Designed the electronic security systems to support the intended operation of the Detention Center. Worked in cooperation with the facility’s user group to ensure the facility achieved an appropriate level of security through seamless integration of technology-based solutions and institutional grade physical enhancements that balanced priorities of protection, cost, operation, and maintenance. Provided design development, design innovations, value engineering, life cycle innovations and achievement of sustainable design targets which improved the value for money of the facility and its long term operations.

Provided consulting services for assessing potential breach points or threats associated to the new facility. Designed integrated security systems to mediate potential threats or breach points identified.  The design for the new facility integrated various electronic security and control systems. These systems were designed to control and detect movement, facilitate communications, provide life safety, deter escapes and insure a safe environment for staff members, the public and inmates. 

The electronic security control systems provide remote operation, monitoring, and viewing of the facility and its perimeter.  The security systems take into consideration providing support for the safety and security of staff, public and inmates by viewing secure areas and monitoring life safety and duress alarm systems. The Electronic Security Systems were designed to be configurable and allow for flexible operation and staffing efficiencies by transfer of control and monitoring functions.

​Construction Cost $594 Million ​

Design Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) Contract (35 years). Designed the door control/PLC, touchscreen, intercom, IP Based video surveillance system, network video recording, fiber optic cable distribution, and uninterruptible power systems for the complex.

The Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse is the first civic building in the United States delivered through an availability-payment-based Public Private Partnership (P3). Under this agreement, Long Beach Judicial Partners (a project company of Meridiam Infrastructure), financed, designed, and built the project, and will operate and maintain it as part of a private consortium for a period of 35 years.

The new 531,000-square-foot courthouse occupies six acres in the city’s redevelopment area, bounded by West Broadway, Maine Avenue, West Third Street, and Magnolia Avenue. The facility houses 31 courtrooms—with expansion space for six more—offices for county justice agencies, retail space compatible with court uses, and an interior courtyard. 

Awards Included:

Excellence in Design, Design-Build Institute of America

Civic Buildings, National Award of Merit, Design-Build Institute of America

Best Project, Government/Public Buildings, ENR California, 2014

PPP deal of the year in North America, Project Finance Magazine

Merit award, AIA Justice Facilities Review

2012 Highly commended, best accommodation project, PPP Bulletin partnerships awards

2011 Deal of the year awards, nontraditional financing, Bond Buyer Magazine

Commercial Real Estate Award, 2014 Best Public Project, Los Angeles Business Journal.

Construction Cost $490 Million. 

Public, Private Partnership (P3), Design Build Finance and Maintain (DBFM) Contract (30 years). Multi-story building with 30 courtrooms and 8 conference settlement rooms. Commitment to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver standard, including focus on energy efficiency, a high quality indoor environment through building material selections and green housekeeping practices. Designed with capacity for expansion and internal flexibility to ensure maximum usefulness throughout its lifetime.

Provided consulting services for assessing potential breach points or threats associated to the new courthouse.  Utilizing this information, designed an integrated electronic security system to mediate any potential threats or breach points identified, which   could not be resolved through physical security or operations.

Major focus was to work with the facility’s user group to ensure the facility achieved an appropriate level of security through seamless integration of technology-based solutions that balanced priorities of protection, cost, operation, and maintenance.  

Construction Cost $379 Million

The new addition to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department Adult Detention Center in Tucson, Arizona added over 134,000 square feet and 500 beds to an existing facility housing 1,500 detainees operated with two independent control centers.

Provided the design and installation oversight for this facility, which combined the intricate security systems of three control areas into one new central “state of the art” command center. The system design included full CCTV coverage of the facility as well as Correctional Officers “man down” locators, inmate and staff tracking system, intercom, door control, and localized water and electrical control.

Electronic security systems design included the card access, inmate tracking, video surveillance, door control, intercom, paging, sound monitoring, video arraignment, video visitation, personal duress, elevator control, vehicle control and UPS systems for both the addition and the renovation. 

The design included a new visitor system, where face-to-face visitations were replaced by video visitation. This is to facilitate operational efficiency and to increase security at the jail. The facility has more than 50 terminals that visitors can use to communicate with inmates. There are video-visitation terminals within each of the housing areas for the inmates to use.

Construction Cost $36 Million. 

Designed the security systems for six vehicle access control points onto the fort.  Designed the: Radio Frequency Identification / Vehicle Registration Tag reader system, surveillance and monitoring system, duress system, and access control system.  

Pueblo City Schools Pueblo, Colorado – Provided a needs assessment and design to upgrade all 40 schools in the district to an IP based video surveillance and recording system. Designed the networking infrastructure, upgraded cameras, new cameras, recording system, security command center and power systems to support the project. Schools were designed to be monitored locally and from two off site command centers. Worked with Pueblo City Schools, Student Resource Officers, the Chief of Police and grant funding sources to coordinate project requirements and funding.