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Connecticut Juvenile
Location:
Middletown, CT
Client:
Connecticut Department of Children and Families
Cost:
$50,000,000
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Project description:
KZF Design provided initial site evaluation and programming, and subsequently served as the design architect and engineer for this new secure juvenile facility in Middletown, Connecticut. Kaestle Boos Associates, Inc., of New Britain, Connecticut, was the local associate architect. The $50 million facility replaces the former Long Lane Training School, which dated from the early 1900’s. The new facility is designed to house minimum-security juvenile offenders between the ages of twelve and fourteen. Housing is classified on three different levels: Special Needs (36 beds), General Population (168 beds) and Transition (36 beds). Although no felons are to be housed in this institution, the electronic security systems and secure construction incorporated into the design allow the flexibility to operate the facility at up to a maximum-security level if needed.
The major program focus for the training school campus is the Education and Support Building. With a total of eighteen classrooms, the school is designed for teaching special needs children. The educational program includes pre-vocational training and independent living labs. Other support functions, including food service, medical, maintenance and warehouse, and a large intake area that is designed to serve the statewide Department of Children and Families system are also incorporated in the building.
This facility is a first for the State of Connecticut and is modeled on a similar KZF-designed maximum-security juvenile facility in Marion, Ohio. The project combined fast track delivery with CM At-Risk contracting.