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The National Museum of American Jewish History is building on a new site in Philadelphia’s Historic District on Independence Mall. Seeking expertise in design of wired and wireless networks, conferencing capabilities, and tele/data/video services, Professional Systems Engineering (PSE) was chosen to design and deploy technology for this special mission to herald the assimilation of Jewry into the United States. PSE’s specialization in cultural based networks/security has been employed by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Doris Duke Foundation, The Clay Center for the Arts of West Virginia, and private collections in Las Vegas.
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PSE completed bridging documents for a $400+ million facility. Included were hardware design, perimeter security fencing and detection, electronic security, communications, and life safety code requirements for the massive compound.
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PSE was awarded the design of life safety, fire protection, fire alarm/smoke detection, security, surveillance, and emergency services/public safety wireless radio communications for a 500,000 sq. ft., 1400 vehicle parking facility on Long Island to meet all current code requirements. The massive structure is designed to support the Island’s need for public transportation accommodation into New York City and reduce pollution while conserving gas consumption.
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Philadelphia area PSE has completed two highly recognized forensic psychiatric facilities in the nation. Clifton T. Perkins Hospital located in Jessup, Maryland, is a detention-grade treatment facility where violent offenders with histories of extreme felonies are sent when psychiatric illness impacts their ability to be housed in the general population. The extremely sophisticated detention control and monitoring includes network video, hundreds of wireless duress receivers, full nurse call integration with secure intercom, digital IP surveillance video, a digital control center for sophisticated recording of all analog and digital events and communications, as well as welded mesh fencing for perimeter control. The $5 million security electronics enhancement is in addition to the $10 million housing component of the project completed by Bushey Feight Morin Architects of Hagerstown, Maryland.
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St. Elizabeths Hospital is the national psychiatric facility located in Washington, DC where many high profile federal felons have been housed over the years. Its new use, in addition to housing special offenders, will be to house patients in event of serious terrorism or events of a national emergency when society’s at-risk population becomes overwhelmed with mental distress. St. Elizabeths has a long history of housing offenders including John Hinckley, the attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan. The $130 million expansion includes $15 million of physical and electronic security to be provided by PSE. The services includes three types of physical perimeter fence, multiple detection layers, complete card access control, specialized security lighting, RF wireless duress, and digital video surveillance.
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Philadelphia’s Capital Program Office has completed two years of renovations to the perimeter at the Philadelphia Detention Center, one of the city’s major detention facilities. PSE engineered the $5 million perimeter expansion with electronic detection. The perimeter detection system includes touch screen monitoring and video surveillance.
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New York’s Division of Design and Construction has completed Phase 1 implementation of corrective security measures to the Horizon juvenile facility in the `Bronx and the Crossroads facility in Brooklyn for touch screen control, wireless duress systems, intercommunication, and emergency egress control. PSE worked through URS Corporation, New York City, with the Using Agency, New York’s Juvenile Justice Commission. The $2 million Phase 1 upgrade will be followed by a $2 million Phase 2 upgrade to incorporate further improvements such as perimeter detection integration and other items.
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New Jersey’s Division of Property Management and Construction (DPMC) through the State’s Revenue Office has completed construction management services for the Department of Correction’s Bayside Correctional Center in Cumberland County, New Jersey. The $4 million renovation included complete pneumatic systems and slider replacement by Norment Industries and Trentech of Montgomery, Alabama. Norment was responsible for complete replacement of 500 pneumatic sliders in addition to PLC control, housing unit by housing unit. PSE was selected by the DPMC to perform the sophisticated, highly complex and phased initiation to allow full occupancy during a 500-cell renovation without skipping a beat. Complex phasing components included lead testing and abatement which called for considerable adjustments to inspection and testing before contract completion.
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New Jersey’s Bergen County Regional Medical Center in Hackensack is undergoing a security renovation with design by Professional Systems Engineering. The security project includes hardware, access control, surveillance, and networks.
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The addition to the historic Washington County Courthouse in Hagerstown, Maryland, has been completed. Bushey Feight Morin Architects of Hagerstown, Maryland, was commissioned to provide the substantial addition to the formerly antiquated corridors that provided inadequate security for transport of potentially violent defendants from surrounding local prisons. PSE acted as the physical and electronic security consultants for gate access from an existing alley, providing secure interlock transport control, digital/video surveillance, and CCTV archiving for the entire facility. A State Homeland Security grant was secured to offset the expenditure on the project.
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Fletcher Thompson Architecture Engineers, Inc., New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Carter Goble Lee, Columbia, Georgia, are completing expansion plans for the Ocean County Detention Center and Courthouse Connection for prisoner hearings and court appearances. The approximately $48 million addition includes new housing, new life safety accommodations, and secure personnel transport corridors to maintain security for defendants and court personnel during trial. PSE provided full security, communications, life safety, and noise and vibration consulting services for this major expansion. Construction documents are in progress and include expanded touch screen control, integrated fire and life safety, extensive code compliance, “fight in place” area of refuge accommodation in the event of emergencies, and full digital and analog communications RFP preparation.
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The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized planning and construction documentation for an expansion to the Maryland Correctional Transition Center in Hagerstown, Maryland. Bushey Feight Morin Architects of Hagerstown, Maryland, were selected to provide the programmatic review and construction documents for the $25 million expansion which includes a new housing unit and renovations to two inmate buildings, commissary, and medical facility. PSE provided all physical and electronic security designs for the facility. They recently completed a two-mile perimeter fencing and detection project for the facility. PSE is now providing additional interior fencing, emergency sally port, additional perimeter security, all housing unit pneumatic controls, and digital video recording systems, while a new central control system will be provided for the facility using touch screen control integration.
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Kent County Historic Courthouse in Dover, Delaware, will become a jewel in the historic district that dates back to the Colonial period. The County has commissioned this relevant and highly secured facility to Moeckel Carbonell Associates Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware, with courts programming by Ricci Greene Associates (RGA) of New York. RGA recommended PSE for all security, communications and courtroom technology design. Renovations to 100,000 sq.ft. of the 132,000 sq.ft. building will include the existing Chancery Court facility. The Delaware Court of Chancery is widely recognized as the nation’s preeminent legal forum for the determination of disputes involving the internal affairs of the thousands of Delaware corporations and other business entities. Its unique competence in and exposure to issues of business law are unmatched. The criminal courts will incorporate the most sophisticated courtroom technology available, coupled with complete digital and analog multimedia presentation capabilities. The security engineering comprises complete card access control, secure elevators, digital video surveillance, secure intercoms, highly secured elevator passageways, and control centers for maintaining full prisoner control and public safety.
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Ricci Greene Associates (RGA) of New York City has completed final plans for the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The $30 million expansion and renovation to the existing facility will include the addition of a five-story atrium, underground parking, and renovations to the existing eight-story facility. RGA employed PSE to provide complete physical and electronic security for the existing and new facility, incorporating new card access, hundreds of duress stations, digital surveillance, and specialized electronic tracking systems for evidence storage and courtroom equipment control.
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Niagara County Courts and Law Enforcement Center is a project of Ciminelli Development Company, Inc. and Largo Real Estate Advisers, Inc. The $50 million construction budget has been managed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, PC, New York (HOK), who commissioned PSE to provide security engineering, communications infrastructure, courts technology design, and law enforcement systems integration fit out. The complex project is split 50/50 between the courts facility and law enforcement including criminal investigation units, forensic analysis, dispatch center, and communications rooms. PSE will be providing complete detention control for physical and electronic security in association with HOK, Dallas, Texas, to implement a fully integrated and managed design within a strict budget. An unusual feature of the Niagara project is a full detention center housed in the basement with approximately 100 cells to accommodate overflow from the County’s overcrowded jail.
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Oz Architecture of Denver, Colorado, has completed designs on a major jail for Denver with a construction cost of over $100 million. The 4-story facility includes over 500,000 sq.ft. of space and will be state-of-the-art from all design and technology perspectives. Ricci Greene Associates of Lexington, Kentucky, provided detention programming and design development services, which included an immense design team of individuals and stakeholders. Technology Plus, Inc. of Denver, Colorado, provided the communications consulting and engineering elements for design in addition to digital video surveillance consulting. PSE provided all detention consulting and design services for state-of-the-art touch screen control, site-wide integration, and management of all security and communications systems integrating secure corrections control requirements throughout the facility.
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The 19th Judicial District Courts in Baton Rouge awarded PSE the communications design contract award for the new courts facility. Included are all networking, wireless LAN, public safety radio, cellular repeaters, data center design, equipment room deployment, government networks integration, and migration consulting/activation services.
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Wake County, NC, required expertise to commission a new jail facility for security, controls, surveillance, and alarm systems. PSE was selected to provide these services for a 2012 opening. Already finished is the constructability review.
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Travis County, TX, awarded PSE a major renovation project including security, communications, and surveillance to provide facility upgrades in three housing complexes in the county’s secure Detention Facility.
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Commissioners in Travis County, Texas, approved the appointment of PSE to provide life safety analysis and design of 500 cells in the Austin, Texas, city detention center. The complex life safety project includes detection and evacuation of smoke within 60 seconds after activation. The firm’s expertise in life safety and specialized correctional application allowed Travis County to incorporate the recent renovation to its smoke evacuation and pressurization system throughout the high-rise facility.
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Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio, have authorized an expenditure of $100 million for new buildings and site improvements for a state-of-the-art County courthouse. DesignGroup of Columbus, Ohio, was awarded the prime architectural contract for development of all programming and construction documents. Ricci Greene Associates, Lexington, Kentucky, provided the courts programming while Arquitectonica, Miami, Florida, provided services as the Signature Architect for the upscale, modernist design. PSE provided physical and electronic security including building explosive and ballistic protection analysis, electronic security engineering services, and courts security consulting for this major expansion.
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Alameda County in California recently completed its $130 million juvenile justice and courts addition, highlighted in the May/June 2007 issue of Correctional News. PSE provided all commissioning of security systems including touch screen control, access control, duress systems, detention and interlock controls, as well as evacuation scenarios. The on-site work by the firm included monitoring and control commissioning of every single moving part and monitoring device and achieved 100% satisfaction by all code officials, agencies and multiple layers of contractors. San Francisco architectural firm, Enovity, Inc., was designated the prime consultant for the commissioning agent service directly to Alameda County.
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