Texas’s Top Projects - 25

Fort Bend County Jail Expansion

PROJECT COST: $66,000,000

Work at the Fort Bend County Jail includes 213,000 sq ft of new construction and 40,000 sq ft of renovations to the existing jail facilities.

The new nine-story jail tower with linking connector is being added to the existing county building and includes an additional 1,008 beds to provide relief from over-crowding. The new tower will also house a monitoring and control center for the jail compound, while the administrative offices, kitchen and laundry facilities remain in the existing tower.

Additionally, the project’s updated technologies and amenities will increase safety, security and efficiency through direct supervision operating methods. The improvements are projected to meet state compliance requirements until 2025 and will also be a cost benefit by minimizing the overflow of prisoners that are transferred to other counties.

Key Facts

Location: Richmond, Texas
Start/completion dates: March 2008/ June 2009
Owner: Fort Bend County, Richmond
General contractor: Turner Construction Co., Houston
Architect: Rosser International Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Structural engineer: SCA Consulting Engineers, Sugar Land, Texas
Civil engineer: Brown & Gay Engineers Inc., Houston
MEP engineer: Rosser International Inc., Atlanta
Major subcontractors: CCC Group Inc., San Antonio; Metroplex Control Systems, San Antonio