Harris County Baker Street Jail
Houston, Texas
Construction Cost: $75M
Completion Date: 2002
Prepared civil engineering design for this 4,156-bed, six-story maximum-security jail which is tied to existing county jails and courts through a secure tunnel system. The site work includes concrete paving, basement level parking, exterior surface parking and drives and sidewalks; grading and drainage with subsurface storm sewer system; domestic and fire water supply utilities; and sanitary sewer system utilities. The work also involves a complex hydraulic analysis and design to allow the facility to be constructed over the floodway of Buffalo Bayou. Other work includes surface and basement level parking, site grading and drainage, subsurface storm sewer system and water and sanitary system utilities.