Vacuum toilets Provide Solutions in Correctional Facilities
Our growing population of inmates brings a corresponding need for additional prison and jail facilities to house those who have been incarerated. Because funds for construction are limited, there is a growing challenge to design correctional facilities that can be built quickly and at the lowest cost possible, while still maintaining correctional standards.
With a responsibility to represent the taxpayer-owner, architectural and engineering consultants are hired to design a facility, which will usually be bid at the lowest cost, while still maintaining the necessary minimum standards. With correctional facilities, the highest costs are associated with the need to provide security. Capital costs, combined with operating costs, are compared, evaluated, and scrutinized in all areas. Several levels of planning, budgeting and value-engineering processes occur. One of the goals is to identify areas that will provide the “biggest bang for our buck.”