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Correctional Facilities

Property Shape Handcuffing Expansion?
Friday, August 07, 2009

Feeling the pressure of the demanding need to house the ever-growing inmate population, prison developers often rush to build and ignore how their biggest resource, land, affects their long-term facility strategy for the present and the future.

The shape and contour of the land you expect to build your facility on will bring with it opportunities and constraints. A sober analysis of the land before it is purchased and a facility designed will ensure your selection best fits your project objectives and works to bring down your operational cost now and in the future.

Avoid being handcuffed by the land you choose:

  • Understand the constraints and build on the opportunities: Understand your organization's operational and functional requirements and then develop a facility which minimizes dimensions between the physical elements will result in a compact "lean" development plan that increases productivity to drive down operation costs.
  • Define the end and move backward: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Or in the case of facility design worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in construction and operation costs. During the project prethinking process, start at the end and then move backward. Keeping the end in mind while land is purchased will ensure you have enough in order to attain your end goal. Rushing to get a facility built to meet today's demands does not ensure you will be able to grow to meet the demands of tomorrow.

 

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