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This is an important urban infill project for the city of Sarasota and a catalyst for future development in the government center. The design responds to the need to be a sustainable, survivable, open and inviting public building that maintains all critical functions 24 hrs a day year during any event. The project is sited on approximately 69,184 square feet of property and consists of 6 stories that accommodate approximately 102,000 square feet of space, with parking for 200 vehicles in the first three levels. The primary structure is proposed as a post-tension concrete building clad with architectural precast, high performance impact resistant glazing systems to mitigate catastrophic events.

In order to create visual icon for the public, a vertical corner entry plaza anchors the project on the edge of Payne Park in downtown Sarasota. The public plaza provides an overflow space for public meetings and media events. Along the south facade, a secondary screen wall shades the building from the sun, frames view vistas from the building towards the park, and creates an interesting urban background for the park users to view. Overall, while balancing sustainable and survivability issues, the project is intended to respect the Sarasota School of Design Syntax and integrate seamlessly into the existing downtown Sarasota urban fabric.

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The Sanford Public Safety Complex site is located southwest of Sanford's Historic Downtown, situated between the Historic Goldsboro Community and the State Farmers Market. The facility consists of approximately eighty thousand square feet, is three stories in height, and includes an exterior Civic Plaza, an important aspect of the project's relationship to the neighborhood. Exterior walls will be concrete tilt wall construction with hurricane impact glazing throughout, designed to withstand 150 mph hurricane force winds and is designed with 100% backup to all mechanical and electrical systems. The facility will house the City's Police Department, Fire Department Administration, Emergency Operations Center, and a five bay Fire Station. Both departments are designed as separate facilities connected by a shared three story Atrium, which includes vertical circulation, lobby/reception, a Historic Fire Apparatus Display, and Community Meeting Room that opens onto the Civic Plaza.

The Civic Plaza is situated at the prominent corner of the site along both public roadways to the north and west of the facility and is framed by both the three-story Atrium to the east and the two story Fire Department to the south. The Plaza will contain both existing majestic specimen oak trees to be preserved on site, as well as many new planters/trees, public art, and seating areas that have open views to the Historic Fire Apparatus Display and Community Meeting Room, creating a true civic space for the surrounding neighborhood and City staff.

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Clay County selected Architects Design Group to design a combined Emergency Operations Center and Fire Rescue Communications/Dispatch Center. The facility, which is named the Clay County Emergency Services Complex, is designed based on the elevated hurricane and redundancy criteria of the HMGP Grant from the State of Florida, Division of Emergency Management. The facility is approximately 26,000 sf total, consisting of 17,000 sf of Emergency Management related departments and 9,000 sf of Communications and Dispatch related space. The building is designed to withstand hurricane force winds of up to 160mph as well as building envelope impact resistance of tornado force projectiles. Building environmental systems provide redundancy to allow operating without any outside utility service for 72 hours. The site and building design is organized to allow future expansion consolidating the Fire Rescue Communications/Dispatch with the Sheriffs Communications Department to allow all County emergency communications to be housed in a single ultra-hardened, technologically secure complex.

This ADG designed Public Safety project for City of Sunrise, is located on the City's Municipal Complex which also includes City Hall, Library, Senior Center and a Cultural/Community Center. These existing buildings provide a context for the design that provides a reference through colors, materials, and complimentary details, creating a unified sense of identity within the Complex. During the project planning phase, ADG examined vehicle and pedestrian access, utility network, and overall site infrastructure connections with recommendations for modification to benefit current Municipal Complex functionality and enhance future improvements. The 133,000 square foot Public Safety Complex will provide the City a secure, storm-hardened, state-of-the-art technologically sophisticated center for Police and Fire Rescue Services. A five-story Public Safety Building houses the entire operations of the Police Department's 300 employees, and includes Joint-use Broward County/City of Sunrise 911 Communications Center (PSAP), Municipal Emergency Operations Center, City-wide Management Information Services (M.I.S.) Data Center, an indoor eight-lane Firing Range, and Fire-Rescue Administration/Training Facilities. Also located on the site with direct access to the City's main traffic arterial is the two-story, 4 bay Fire Station No. 72. Both buildings are served by a Central Energy Plant which provides 100% redundancy to all critical infrastructure components, ensuring that the facilities remain operational during and immediately after a natural disaster or man-made incident.

The Cape Coral, Florida facility is a 100,000 + square foot, tilt-panel, three story Police Headquarters. This facility houses police operations and a 911 emergency communications center. Balfour Beatty is the construction manager for this project. Fast-Track construction began August 2008 and is scheduled to be completed in June of 2009.

The Orlando Police Department Firing Range Facility is located in east Orlando Florida, and consists of approximately sixty seven thousand square feet in total area. All exterior walls will be concrete tilt wall construction, and will accommodate fifty five climate-controlled firing lanes. This will be the first firing range dedicated to the City of Orlando as they have been training at other local agencies' indoor firing ranges to date. The facility includes a twenty lane tactical target range and a twenty lane qualification range, both measuring one hundred fifty feet. There is also a fifteen lane, three hundred foot rifle range. The support spaces in the facility include; three large classrooms, lockers/restrooms, storage and administrative offices.

The building, while located near an airport, an expressway, is also adjacent to a neighborhood. The design team addressed this concern by providing a green screen on both the south and east elevations. This provides a visual buffer and interest to the windowless walls that dominate the east faŤade, required for the firing ranges. The green screen also decreases the overall heat gain by providing solar shading for the only glazing permitted in the building, those in the classrooms located at the south end of the building, as well as providing a portion of the security fencing for the site. The buildings site configuration took into account the need to accommodate a separate future "shoothouse" and an outdoor live fire, and a 360 degree balistically safe training facility, that provides close quarter training by simulating an interior environment. This allows the outdoor training to be separate from the neighborhood by way of a visual barrier and serves as a noise suppressor, while also providing sufficient parking and on-site storm water retention.

Osceola County selected Architects Design Group, Inc. to provide professional planning and design services for the master planning and construction of a combined Joint Communications / Emergency Operations Center (CEOC). This project includes a 2 story, 45,000 square foot Joint Communications/Emergency Operations facility, a 2,400 single story Sheriff's Vehicle Command and Equipment Storage structure, and a three level 300 car parking garage. The project provides a direct tie to the existing Osceola County Sheriff's Administration Complex, enhancing overall delivery of Public Safety Services.

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