The project required meticulous phasing and logistics planning to accommodate the tight construction site in a busy area of downtown Sycamore, Illinois. The design team located the new detention center addition in the area directly east of the existing public safety building, connected by a new interior elevated corridor bridge. To overcome budgetary and timing challenges, our professionals worked to create a highly detailed and complex phased design and construction schedule.

The completed project nearly doubled the facility’s square footage and bed capacity, providing space for rehabilitation to those incarcerated and a safe working environment for the correctional staff.

We provided architecture and interior design (associate architect Kimme & Associates, Inc.); mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering; structural engineering; technology design, and landscape architecture services.