United States Coleman Penitentiary
Coleman, FL
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The United States Penitentiary (USP) in Coleman, Florida consisted of a group of buildings in the campus plan arrangement with related site development, retention ponds and site utilities. The facility is located in a rural area on County Road 501 in Coleman, Florida, approximately 60 miles north of Tampa. The project size totaled 581,251 SF and consisted of 6 General Housing Units, Special Housing Unit, Education-Religion-Psychology Building, Food Service-Laundry Building, Maintenance Shops, Central Utility Plant, UNICOR Facility, Sallyports, Inside Administration Building, Recreation Areas, Outside Administration Building, Guard Towers, Fire Road and Perimeter Security Road. Project construction cost was in excess of $80,000,000.
The United States Penitentiary (USP) in Coleman, Florida consisted of a group of buildings in the campus plan arrangement with related site development, retention ponds and site utilities. The facility is located in a rural area on County Road 501 in Coleman, Florida, approximately 60 miles north of Tampa. The project size totaled 581,251 SF and consisted of 6 General Housing Units, Special Housing Unit, Education-Religion-Psychology Building, Food Service-Laundry Building, Maintenance Shops, Central Utility Plant, UNICOR Facility, Sallyports, Inside Administration Building, Recreation Areas, Outside Administration Building, Guard Towers, Fire Road and Perimeter Security Road. Project construction cost was in excess of $80,000,000.
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ACSI's RESPONSIBILITIES:
As part of the Clark Construction/DLR Architect’s design-build project team, ACSI held the responsibility for planning, design and construction administration for all facility security, communications and life-safety systems. Specialty systems designed by ACSI included PLC-based integrated security movement control and monitoring, perimeter security, addressable fire alarm system, voice and data communications systems, radio communication systems, inmate television, duress alarm and continuous video recording of numerous inmate areas. Special challenges for ACSI included designing to overcome the high lightning strike environment. |
Subsequent to completion of the Coleman USP project, the Clark/DLR/ACSI team was selected to construct a similar USP project on the same site in Coleman. The costs for this project were in excess of $100,000,000. |
