Municipal / Justice
Our justice architects have dedicated their 20+ year careers to designing jails, detention facilities, courthouses, and public safety centers for state, county and municipal governments. Our designers understand the intricacies of each building type and how to work with urban and suburban communities to navigate difficult political landscapes. Our evidence-based design approach improves staff retention, reduces long-term operational costs, and provides a secure and a safe environment for the inmates, staff and public. Collectively, our staff’s experience encompasses more than $2 billion in projects, including juvenile justice facilities, state prison facilities, city and county jails, women's detention facilities, courthouses, and other government administration buildings.
Our justice architects have dedicated their 20+ year careers to designing jails, detention facilities, courthouses, and public safety centers for state, county and municipal governments. Our designers understand the intricacies of each building type and how to work with urban and suburban communities to navigate difficult political landscapes. Our evidence-based design approach improves staff retention, reduces long-term operational costs, and provides a secure and a safe environment for the inmates, staff and public. Collectively, our staff’s experience encompasses more than $2 billion in projects, including juvenile justice facilities, state prison facilities, city and county jails, women's detention facilities, courthouses, and other government administration buildings.
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Cobb County Adult<br />
Detention Center<br />
Marietta, Georgia<br />
Karen Sicner worked with Cobb County Sheriff’s Office to project future program needs and develop<br />
a master plan to match those needs with logical phases. The first phase was a 384-bed work/release<br />
center. The next phase was $94 million and consisted of a 1,172-bed addition, new intake and transport<br />
area, new video visitation center, new staff lockers and administration area; and renovations at the<br />
existing medical and mental areas, kitchen, laundry and staff support and jail administration. Extensive<br />
research was undertaken, including visiting new intake centers across the country, to develop new<br />
procedures and processes that would insure the facility would operate at maximum efficiency and<br />
safety. This project is serving as a model for new facilities throughout the County.
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