City of Houston EOC
Houston, Texas
Construction Cost: $53M
Completion Date: 2002
Also known as the Houston Emergency Center, this award-winning 128,000 SF facility on 10.8 acres was designed by PGAL to create a state-of-the-art, modular, expandable facility to consolidate the City's emergency communications systems and personnel, providing enough space for planned growth to the year 2020, as well as secure parking for over 500 cars. Robust technology and redundancy are essential to the facility's operation. The new systems' most significant benefit will be the common protocol for interagency transaction exchange between 9-1-1, Police, Fire, EMS, and Emergency Management. The system also includes interfaces for connections to state agencies, the Harris County Sheriff's Department, METRO (the city's transit authority), and TranStar. In addition to a tightly monitored security system and gated lot, the building is designed to withstand natural disasters.
- The City of Houston is expected to save $7M annually by consolidating these operations
- Consolidation of Houston's emergency communications systems and personnel