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Owner: The GEO Group, Inc. / General Contractor: White Construction / Contract Amount: $14,000,000

The $115 million Blackwater Correctional Facility is a 2,000 bed 378,796 square foot facility consisting of one support building, one administrative building, two dormitories, four housing buildings, and three covered gymnasiums. The support building has five areas: segregation, kitchen, laundry, visitation, and classroom. The two-story housing buildings contain six dayrooms each. The two dormitories each contain four dayrooms. The HVAC work on the project consisted of two 500 ton chillers with associated pumps, 59 rooftop units, 19 split systems, 108 exhaust fans, and 39 smoke exhaust fans. The pre-insulated chilled water system is made up of Thermacor below ground and Victaulic above ground. Gas heat was utilized throughout all of the buildings. The plumbing system contains 30 gas fired water heaters. Approximately 60% of the plumbing systems for the facility were prefabricated.

Owner: Wackenhut Corrections / General Contractor: White Construction Company / Contract Amount: $4,436,500

Honorable Mention: Mississippi Associated Builders and Contractors

This facility is a 230,000 square-foot psychiatric prison containing four housing pods, one support building, and one maintenance building. Ivey performed the HVAC, plumbing and utility work for the prison and the piping for the 500,000-gallon water tank. Architectural design of Wackenhut’s 1,000-bed prison called for exterior walls to be constructed of tilt-up panels. A challenge for Ivey was to maintain plumbing rough-in beneath slab until all exterior walls were formed, poured and tilted on the actual building slab. Ivey set 14 roof-top units, ranging from five to 30 tons each, on the support building’s exterior, running duct up along exterior walls and through the attic. Sixteen 20-ton split HVAC systems were installed in the housing pods. Ivey pre-fabricated 128 plumbing risers on site.

Owner: GEO/Florida State Department of Management Services / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction / Contract Amount: $6,778,612

This new correctional facility will house up to 1,500 medium and close custody adult male inmates. The $69.3 million project included an administration building, maintenance shop, support building, dormitory building, three housing units, segregation building, gymnasium, and industry building. The buildings total 277,000 square feet. The mechanical contract included the installation of 2 - 450 ton chillers, 50 chilled water air handlers, 6 split systems, 130 exhaust fans, 8 VAV boxes, and 33 roof ventilator hoods. All of the underground sewer piping and the above ground domestic water piping over the housing units was pre-fabricated on site. Ivey worked 76,000 man hours with no recordable incidents.

Owner: Gwinnett County / General Contractor: Turner Construction Company / Contract Amount: $11,491,000

Subcontractor of the Year - Turner Construction Company

Award of Merit - Georgia Associated Builders and Contractors

This project consisted of two buildings. The first is a 285,600 square foot, eight level tower containing a 1,450 bed housing units, laundry, kitchen, and medical facility. The second is the existing 27,000 square foot detention center which was renovated. The new detention center has minimal space for the mechanical systems, requiring extensive coordination to locate the mechanical equipment in the allotted space. The chilled water piping system in the existing central plant was totally redesigned. The existing piping was removed, and a new system was installed. With proper planning and pre-fabrication, the work required only a one day shutdown of the central plant. Ivey worked more than 150,000 man hours on this project without a lost-time accident.

Owner: Brunswick Industrial Authority / General Contractor: Canam Construction - Edmond, Oklahoma / Contract Amount: $5,481,000

In March 1998, Ivey completed the HVAC and plumbing for ten buildings at the new 1,500-bed correctional facility. The complex includes administration, classrooms, dining hall, kitchen, greenhouse, guard house, maintenance, and six two-story modular pre-cast concrete cell buildings. Installation included 73 rooftop units ranging from 10 to 25 tons each and over 1,500 plumbing fixtures on the 18-month design/build project.

Contract amount: $449,400

The Nassau County Jail is a 320-bed detention center with a full administrative support section adjacent to the housing building. Ivey installed plumbing systems for 110 security fixtures and 40 security showers along with full kitchen and laundry facilities, including gas piping and equipment connections.

Owner: Geogia Department of Justice / General Contractor: Turner Construction - Atlanta, Georgia / Contract Amount: $4,290,700

This project consists of four medium security (non classified) regional youth detention facilities constructed for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice concurrently in Augusta, Cordele, Macon, and Rome, Georgia. There are 256 total housing units (64 per site), administration offices, classrooms, on-site medical and dental facilities, commercial kitchens and cafeteria, laundry, gymnasium, and holding/processing areas.

Owner: Wackenhut Corrections Corporation / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction / Contract Amount: $5,366,577

The Rivers Correctional Institution is a campus design with four housing buildings, recreational areas, a central programs building, an administrative building, a prison industries building, and four perimeter towers. The design of the facility enables cost effective utilization of security staff supplemented by modern electronic surveillance. Plumbing and HVAC on the 1,450-bed, low-security adult male inmates.

Owner: Tucolameta, Inc. / General Contractor: White Construction Company, Inc. / Contract Amount: $4,433,700

The Walnut Grove Correctional Facility is a 376,000 square foot juvenile detention center. Ivey installed 43 units in the attic of the new facility. The project completed in 13 months.

Phase 2 of this project involved the addition of two new housing buildings totaling 96,000 square feet. These buildings provided 500 additional beds. Ivey performed the HVAC and plumbing contract for the project, installing 11 split air conditioning units, 14 exhaust fans, and 10 smoke evacuation fans. The laundry and kitchen were also renovated.

Owner: Whitfield County Board of Commissioners / General Contractor: Turner Construction - Atlanta, Georgia / Contract Amount: $1,600,000

Law Enforcement Center including 64 inmate cells. There are five building areas with various roof heights. This project used a helicopter to set the rooftop equipment. The facility has a total of 141,323 square feet.

Owner: Federal Bureau of Prisons / General Contractor: The Haskell Company - Jacksonville, Florida / Contract Amount: $13,819,000

The medium security Federal Correctional Institution at Yazoo City is a design-build project with a total project amount of $90 million. The project consists of 3 general housing units, 1 special housing unit, and 13 other support buildings with a combined square footage of approximately 500,000 square feet. The facility will house 1,200 medium security inmates.