REDWOOD CITY, CA—The $165-million Maple Street Correctional Center has a lofty goal. Specifically, the intention of the center is to address and perhaps curb the revolving door of inmates.

The design of the facility is being called a model of “compassionate corrections,” offering features such as extensive natural lighting, classrooms and computer rooms, and food-preparation training areas. The jail has been designed utilizing an innovative approach to corrections, with the intent of giving inmates a purpose through training programs and counseling to result in fewer repeat offenses.

Joint venture partners, Sundt Construction Inc. and Layton Construction, along with San Mateo County officials, celebrated the completion of the first phase of the correction center. With this phase completed, the facility is ready for the sheriff's office to use while Sundt Layton completes the remaining tenant improvements.

The project, led by Sundt Layton as the construction manager at-risk, broke ground in early 2013 and included remediation of a brownfield site, demolition of existing structures, and on- and off-site improvements to prepare the 4.8-acre site for development of the new 260,000-square-foot complex. The new facility features inmate housing for 576 beds (when phase two is complete, capacity will be expanded to 832 beds), support spaces, a light-filled visitor lobby, video visitation area, full-service kitchen, locker rooms, staff dining with outside eating area, laundry facility and loading docks.

Project architect, HOK, designed the sustainable construction project to earn LEED Silver certification.

Sundt project director Steve Blaylock tells GlobeSt.com: “There is a trend in corrections to make jails and prisons more able to address trying to keep current inmates from getting into the recidivism cycle by getting them ready to merge back into society in a normalized manner.”

REDWOOD CITY, CA—The $165-million Maple Street Correctional Center has a lofty goal. Specifically, the intention of the center is to address and perhaps curb the revolving door of inmates.

Project architect, HOK, designed the sustainable construction project to earn LEED Silver certification.

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