Delivering Design Excellence in Justice Architecture

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

5:30 p.m.
Conference Registration

6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Opening Reception
The Fairmont Chicago

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
2004-2005 Justice Facilities Review Award Banquet
The Chicago Yacht Club
(Tickets are required for this event)
The AIA's annual publication, Justice Facilities Review, serves as an indicator of the proven strategies and latest trends used in the design and construction of justice facilities. The selection process is conducted by a jury that chooses projects for inclusion that demonstrate a quality of form as well as functional and architectural responses to complex justice design issues. Jury chair for the 2004-2005 Justice Facilities Review, Beverly Prior, AIA, will present insights and opinions from this year's jury, with special focus on five projects the jury thought merited a special citation:

• Contra Costa County Family Law Center, Martinez, California
by RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture
• Dan M. Russell Jr. U.S. Courthouse, Gulfport, Mississippi
by R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects
• U.S. Courthouse, Montgomery, Alabama
by Barganier Davis Sims Architects Associated
• U.S. Federal Courthouse and Post Office, San Juan, Puerto Rico
by Finegold Alexander + Associates
• King County Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center, Renton, Washington
by RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture.

Thursday, October 28, 2004
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Introduction and Welcome
Ronald J. Budzinski, AIA, Phillips Swager Associates and CAJ Chair
Robert Andrukonis, AIA, General Services Administration and Conference Chair

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Track Chair Overview

Law Enforcement
Chair: Charles R. Drulis, AIA, RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture Inc.

Courts
Chair: Gilbert Delgado, AIA, General Services Administration

Detention/Correction
Chair: Frank J. Greene, AIA, Ricci Greene Architects PC

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Refreshment Break/Exhibits Open

11:00 a.m. - Noon
Keynote Address
Thomas Mayne, AIA, Morphosis Architects
Thom Mayne founded Morphosis in 1972 to develop an architecture that would eschew the normal bounds of traditional forms and materials and surpass the limiting dualism of modern and postmodern. As the firm steadily grows, currently with 40 architects and designers, Mr. Mayne remains committed to the practice of architecture as a collective enterprise. Mr. Mayne received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1968. In 1978 he received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University. His commitment to the education of young designers has not wavered over the past 30 years, and currently he holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. His distinguished honors include the Rome Prize Fellowship (1987), the 2000 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal in Architecture, and the Chrysler Design Award of Excellence (2001). With Morphosis, Mr. Mayne has been the recipient of 24 Progressive Architecture awards, 50 AIA awards, and numerous other design recognitions.

Noon - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch served in the Exhibits Hall

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Design Track Sessions

Law Enforcement
Chair: Herbert B. Roth, AIA, Roth & Sheppard Architects

The panel will discuss leading-edge trends and issues in the design of “next generation” public safety facilities. Topics include achieving design excellence within public-sector budgetary constraints, reconciling “transparency” with security, and incorporating specialized design
criteria, site selection, site design, and community interaction and outreach during the design process. Law enforcement facilities and emergency operations and communication centers are case study projects.

Design of next generation facilities discussion topics include
• Law enforcement facilities: overview of the building type and design process
• Discussion of emerging trends in the planning and design of law enforcement building types
• Emergency operations and communications centers (EOCs): overview of the building type and design process
• Discussion of emerging trends in the planning and design of EOCs and dispatch and command centers
• Design strategies after September 11: balancing the need for openness, fostering departmental communication, providing access to natural light versus the “bunker” design approach without compromising security
• Review of facility survivability issues, including site security, systems redundancy, “stand alone” capabilities, employee stress mitigation, incorporation of blast design criteria, mail handling protocols, and other threat mitigation measures
• Incorporating “green building” design strategies into modern police buildings
• Flexible space planning for modern law enforcement facilities
• Employee responsive design: what features support employee recruitment, training, and retention.

How Community Policing affects building design discussion topics include
• Decentralized community policing oriented facilities and centralized community policing facilities
• Identification of core building features that support community policing functions.

Case studies include
• Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters
• City of Seattle West Precinct Station
• Los Angeles Police Department Ramparts Station
• Los Angeles Police Department Harbor Station
• Santa Ana Police Headquarters
• Ontario Provincial Police Headquarters
• 51 Division Toronto Police Services
• California State Operations Center
• King County, Washington, Emergency Operations and Communications Center

Panel Members
• Mallory Cusenbery, AIA, RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture
• Dennis Humphries, AIA, Humphries Poli Architects
• Michael Moxam, Dunlop Architects
• Nick Sieirup, AIA, Perkins & Will
• Dana Taylor, AIA, DMJM Design

Courts
Chair: Michael E. LeBoeuf, AIA,

The Design Track will be a panel presentation (15-20 minutes per project) and discussion of owner representatives focusing specifically on the interaction between the client and the architect during the design process for their respective courthouses. Particular attention will be paid to exploring the client’s initial ideals and preconceptions about 21st century American courthouse architecture and, ultimately, how these notions may have been transformed during the journey to the final design.

Speakers:
U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan, Eugene (Oregon) Federal Courthouse
User/architect relationships in the design of federal courthouses and concepts about the courthouse in the 21st century.

Susan Schellenberg, Lehigh County (Pennsylvania) Courthouse

Jim Leach, Kent County (Michigan) Courthouse

Detention/Correction
Chair: Jeffery Goodale, AIA, American Correctional Association

Panel One: Juvenile Detention: Creating Environments for Improving Young Lives
Speaker: Ken Ball

This discussion centers around the role design and programs occupy in determining the future of troubled youth. Different from adult detention centers, juvenile centers offer the opportunity to intervene and help young offenders turn around their lives. The environments we create for managing these young people play an important part in that process. While safety, security, and efficiency are obviously important factors in these facilities, good design should also incorporate therapeutic factors, opportunities for positive interaction and increased self-reliance, and possibly even be inspirational. In addition, cutting-edge design incorporates programs and enhancements that systems can effectively use in creating the best environments. Designers, planners, and owners have opportunities to work closely to achieve the best facilities.

Panel Two: Civic Neighbors: Enhancing a City with Good Design
Speaker: Larry Phillips, AIA, HDR Architecture

Due to public pressures centering on dollars and attitudes, the design and construction of detention facilities have become more of a commodity in the past 10 years. Succumbing to that pressure, designers have, to a degree, followed that trend and delivered more utilitarian deigns that respond to the bottom line. However, the sites these facilities occupy often are vital within urban areas, either due to historical factors or as potential areas to spur urban development. This panel discussion revolves around designs that take their role as civic partners seriously, enhancing their environments and taking their place within their communities as vibrant, important community structures that evoke a positive response rather than a negative. Design strategies regarding scale and materials and urban planning issues will be discussed.

Panel Three: The Role of Detention and Corrections Facilities in Improving the Environment: Yes, Jails Can Be Green, Too!
Speaker: Mary McHatton, Assoc. AIA, Turner Construction

Detention and corrections facilities occupy a necessary role in society as places for detaining and rehabilitating. Whether housing a dozen juveniles or 3,000 maximum security inmates, these facilities are major users of resources, both in terms of their construction and their operations. As such, these facilities can cost their communities an enormous amount of dollars and resources. Today, designers are implementing more techniques for creating environmentally responsible, enhanced, facilities that are efficient, attractive, sustainable, and can be constructed and operated within today’s tight budgets. This discussion will center on construction and energy strategies that are forward thinking and will pay dividends for years to come, and will include issues that can be addressed in achieving LEED status. More important, the focus remains on creating these facilities while still maintaining the utmost safety and security.

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Refreshment Break/Exhibits Open

5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gala Dinner and Speaker

"Good Form Does Follow Good Function in Justice Architecture. So, Why Has Good Recently Been So Hard to Do?"
Speaker: Tom Allison, Former Orange County (Florida) Director of Corrections

Tom Allison is an adjunct professor at Kansas University’s School of Social Welfare. Prior to this position, Mr. Allison was president and chief executive officer for the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida and, prior to that, he was corrections division director in Orange County, Florida. Mr. Allison has received numerous awards, including several National Associations of Counties Achievement Awards and the 1991 American Jail Associations, Correctional Administrator of the Year award. In each of his positions, Mr. Allison has always been a strong advocate of innovative policies matched with responsive design solutions. Mr. Allison is a past Justice Facilities Review juror, and all his projects have been selected for Justice Facilities Review publication, with many receiving citations.

Friday, October 29, 2004
7:30 a.m.
Conference Registration

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Practice Track Sessions

Law Enforcement
Chair: Dean S. Roberts, AIA, Phillips Swager Associates Inc.

The panel will focus on models for firm collaborations and on project delivery methods for large
and medium size projects. Collaborative options and the resources available to firms to pursue public safety projects through collaborations with expert consultants will be presented. Advantages relative to entering a new market sector, getting the commission, progressing through the design process, understanding the building typology, and understanding of the client’s operational needs and goals will be discussed with case studies.

The presentation of project delivery methods will include an overview of the options, the level of the need for client education regarding project specific advantages and disadvantages of each option, and aspects of the project that should remain consistent across all delivery methods. The panel will discuss key criteria firms can use to evaluate project delivery selection for law enforcement facilities.

Strategies to enter the market:

Discussion of the resources available to firms to pursue public safety projects through collaborations with expert consultants
Discussions of opportunities for a firm with no experience in public safety projects to enter the market and expand existing portfolios through collaborations.

Collaboration models for law enforcement facilities, including

Programming/conceptual development with continuing design review
Design collaboration throughout the design phases
Joint venture

These models offer market entry opportunity for firms without law enforcement projects in their portfolios.

Project delivery methods for law enforcement projects
This presentation will focus on project delivery methods for large and medium size projects. Discussion will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of each project delivery method to the building type, understanding of the aspects of the project that should remain constant across all project delivery methods, and awareness of the client perspective/need for education on project delivery methods.

Strategies for influencing the project delivery selection.
Identify key criteria firms can use to influence project delivery selection for law enforcement facilities

Project delivery methods for law enforcement facilities.
• Design-Bid-Build
• Design-Build
• Construction Management
• Variations
Emphasis will be on how firms can best use these models to achieve a successful project outcome.

Panel Members: TBD

Courts
Chair: Jim Beight, AIA, Phillips Swager Associates Inc.
The practice session on courts will focus on new developments in procurement of professional design services and their impact on the quality of the design process and, ultimately, the built environment.

Speakers:
Ed Feiner, FAIA, General Services Administration
New Developments in GSA’s Design Excellence Program, Competitions and Charrettes

Diane Dalgleish, Property Development Branch, Alberta Infrastructure
Calgary Courthouse, case study in private public partnership

Stephanie Vierra, Steven Winter Associates Inc.
Sustainability: Current issues in sustainability as they relate to courthouse projects.

Detention/Correction
Chair: Ed Spooner, AIA, HOK Inc.

The panel’s topic is achieving design excellence in justice facilities with a focus on three practice issues:
• Clients Objectives
• Project Delivery Systems
• Modern Justice Design Standards.

Topic One: Are Clients Seeking “Design Excellence”
We have all seen the trends in correction and detention facilities toward the use of pre-engineered construction, site-adapts, and prototype facilities. Do these trends offer the same opportunity for design excellence as traditional design practice? Does this mean clients are not interested in quality design? What will the impact of this direction be on the design profession?

The panel will review these questions and explore the future of design in this market segment. Comparisons of several unique issues, including the location factor, urban sites versus rural sites, and budget constraints will be explored. The cost of developing major facilities is a major factor and the perception that custom-designed facilities inherently cost more will be evaluated.

Topic Two: Alternative Construction Delivery Methods

The traditional delivery method of design-bid has had some problems and frustrations. This has spawned the use of several alternative delivery methods. How do we achieve design excellence through the use of various alternative construction delivery methodologies? These methods include design-build, design competitions, and construction management. Is it even possible to achieve design excellence within these systems? The panel will explore the benefits and the shortcomings of each of these systems. We will also explore what burdens these processes place on the owner as well as the architect.

Topic Three: Detention and Corrections Standards
This topic will emphasize the importance of using the national standards in the design and operation of the facility. Governmental agencies are often asking that facilities be designed to comply with current correctional standards. The panel will explore a variety of standards that apply to detention and correctional facilities and how they are used by both architects and users. Also, the origin and intent of standards will be reviewed. Several case study facilities demonstrating design excellence through the use of standards will be evaluated with a focus on plans that demonstrate
• Compliance with standards
• Visibility and adequacy of floor plan square footage in cells and program areas
• Creative use of spaces to achieve compliance with one or more standards.

Panel: Scott Higgins, FBOP
Bob Verdeyen, American Correctional Association
Mike Barr, J.E. Dunn Construction Company
Mike Frawley, AIA, HOK Inc.
Rick Macia, AIA, Spillis Candela DMJM

10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Refreshment Break/Exhibits Open

10:30 - Noon
Technology Track Sessions

Law Enforcement
Chair: Michael Ross, AIA

Modern public safety facilities require careful integration of electronic communication, data, signaling, and security systems. Law enforcement facilities are hubs on complex local and wide area communication networks requiring specialized design and coordination skills. The panel will focus on identifying and discussing emerging trends and advances in the technologies that support modern law enforcement and emergency preparedness missions and discuss the methodology to identify and integrate specialized program, operational, telecommunications, and security requirements into modern buildings.

Police Service Technologies
• Emerging trends and system types
• Identification and discussion of systems
• Impacts on facility design
• Impacts on staff, training, and operating costs
• Budget requirements

Crime Lab Technologies
• Emerging trends and system types
• Specialized design Requirements
• Identification and discussion of systems
• Impacts on staff, training, and operating costs

Electronic Security Systems
• Programming and planning methodology
• Emerging trends and system types
• Identification and discussion of systems
• Impacts on facility design
• Impacts on staff, training, and operating costs
• Budget requirements

Communication Systems
• Emerging trends and system types
• Identification and discussion of system
• Impacts on facility design
• Impacts on staff, training, and operating costs
• Budget requirements

Audio-Visual Systems Planning and Application in Police and EOC Facilities
• Emerging trends and system types
• Identification and discussion of systems
• Impacts on facility design
• Impacts on staff, training, and operating

Panel Members:
• Hollice Stone, Hinman Consulting Engineers
• John T. Matthias, AIA, Forensic Science/Crime Laboratories
• Gary Schiff and Mike Silva, Kroll Schiff International
• Bill Sewell, DMJM Integrated Technologies

Courts
Chair: Craig Zimring, Georgia Institute of Technology

New technologies are influencing the way courthouses and court proceedings are run. New technologies also offer novel ways of addressing courthouse security issues. In turn, technology is influencing the physical design of courthouses and courtrooms. The speakers in the technology track will provide an insight into new developments in technology and the way such technology influence courthouse design.

Speakers:
Craig Zimring, Debajyoti Pati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Web-based courthouse “source book” facilitating the comparison of various courthouse design strategies of an assembled library of projects.

Eve Hinmann
Current issues in blast protection and overall security.

Todd Phillips
State-of-the-art courtroom and courthouse technologies.

Gate Lew, Administrative Office of the US Courts
Court technology issues in the design of federal courthouses

Detention/Correction
Chair: April Pottorff, AIA, Ricci Greene Associates

Panel will discuss and present case studies of facilities demonstrating Design Excellence through the use of technology with emphasis on: Modern Facilities make “Good Neighbors”; Construction Methodology; Security.

Modern Facilities Make “Good Neighbors”:
Speaker: Jim Kessler, AIA, HOK – Washington, DC

Many detention and juvenile facilities are in an urban context or in proximity to residential areas;
therefore, as designers, our challenge is to design facilities with aesthetic qualities and sensitivity
to their environment and context. We will explore how building technology and materials can enhance the quality of appearance of these facilities, without compromising the security or mission:
• Using the building envelope as the secure perimeter rather than using security fencing
• Using products that “soften” the secure appearance (masonry patterns, aluminum clad/stainless steel security windows, pitched metal roofs)
• Using a design language that is appropriate for its neighborhood (e.g., the massing of building components, use of sloped roofs, proportions of window openings).

Construction Methodology
Speaker: Jim Robertson, Voorhis/Robertson Justice Services Inc.
Facilities can achieve design excellence through the use of various construction methodologies. In some cases, because of cost benefits, speed and/or efficiency of construction, pre-cast and modular methods prevail over a “stick built” masonry scenario. Explore the advantages and disadvantages of each as it relates to design excellence.

Security
Speaker: Curtis J. Pulitzer, AIA, Pulitzer Bogard & Associates LLC
“Operations drive design,” This discussion features a facility that develops a cogent operational philosophy and then translates that philosophy into an excellent floor plan that provides security through good lines of sight and visibility, and ease of movement for staff and augmented by Security Electronic Systems. Example characteristics of facilities successfully achieving design excellence through security are:

Floor plan layouts that achieve
• Great Sight Lines throughout the building and/or within the context of the Housing Units
• Circulation that facilitates the ease of movement for staff and inmates
• Visibility and adequacy of floor plan square footage
• Creative location and design of central control.

Security Electronic Systems may augment security with the use of:
• Touch Screen Technology
• Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)
• Duress
• Card Access
• Motion Detection
• Watch Tour

Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Exhibits with Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion on Justice Architecture Design

Moderator: tbd
Panelists:
William Pedersen, FAIA, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Rafael Vinoly, FAIA, JIA, SCA, Rafael Vinoly Architects PC
Fred Koetter, FAIA, RIBAm Koetter Kim & Associates Ltd.

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Ronald J. Budzinski, AIA, Phillips Swager Associates and CAJ Chair
Robert Andrukonis, AIA, General Services Administration and Conference Chair

Saturday, October 30, 2004
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Optional Tours of Chicago Area Justice Facilities
Tour Details TBA