Public Safety Headquarters
Police, fire and 911 dispatch moved into one hardened headquarters built to keep answering calls through any storm.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Justice & Public Safety
- Delivery
- Design-build
- Scale
- 164,000 SF
- Completed
- 2024
A hardened headquarters for police, fire and 911 dispatch that has to stay on through any storm.
A dispatch floor cannot go dark, so the building needed backup power, redundant communications and an envelope rated for extreme wind. Three agencies with different security rules shared one site, and each wanted its own entrances, its own records rooms and its own say. Radio and network cutover from the old facility had to happen without missing a single emergency call.
The approach.
- 01
One decision log for three agencies
Every agency request was tracked in a shared log with a cost and schedule impact, so tradeoffs were made in one meeting, not three.
- 02
Hardened envelope by design
Wall assemblies, storm-rated glazing and roof anchorage were engineered and mocked up with the fabricators before release.
- 03
Power tested under load
Generators, UPS and transfer switches were tested by dropping utility power with the dispatch floor fully loaded.
- 04
Cutover in parallel
Old and new dispatch consoles ran side by side until every radio channel and phone trunk was proven in the new building.
The outcome.
“The worst night of the year is the night this building gets tested. We commissioned it with that night in mind.”
Commissioning manager, GilbertLanham
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