3. Courthouse west addn-contract addendum

Courts Programming & Design KIMME & Associates I GUILFORD COUNTY, NC. (Greensboro) COURTS ADDITION 1 Services: Needs AssessmentJProgramminglDesign MillE S11I!T r.rJ::-:- -.'~' do c~ '1 = -J~ DD-.J --- .,- 'F-r. -- ..- ---- ..- -- - - PWA lhIl-""" J -- Client Name: Contact: Phone Number: Guilford County Commissioners Sandra Woodard, Project Manager (336) 641-3722 Dates of Service: Needs Assessment Study 2005-06; Programming & Design 2007 Status: Programming completed and approved, in design stage K&A team members who participated and in what capacity: D. Kimme, Needs AssessmentJProgramlDesign D. Bostwick, Needs AssessmentJProgramlDesign Project Description: · This project's challenge was to find a minimally disruptive way to significantly expand the existing courthouse on a limited site. · The planning had to facilitate the future growth anticipated for this fast growing county that is part of the rapidly expanding North Carolina Triad area. · The primary issues addressed were a lack of adequate and secure public entry space, efficient public access to high volume courts, inadequate intake and traffic courts, inadequate and consolidated public defender space, and insufficient community corrections office space. · The plan includes a second phase intended to address a shortage of space for the Juvenile Justice Department and the District Attorney's Office. · The new intake court featured D.A. screening stations, defense attorney work stations, and magistrates benches where probable cause is established and pretrial release conditions are set. · The intake court featured adjacent but acoustically separate public waiting/check- in space for 230 people that included attorney-client conference rooms and victim-witness waiting rooms. · The traffic court was a non-jury courtroom that featured public gallery seating for 250 thus addressing major corridor queuing problems within the existing facility.