By Gregory J. Offner, CCM
(03/05/2009)
(03/05/2009)
In 2008, I took another step along my career development path by achieving accreditation as a certified construction manager. From time to time I have been asked the multi-faceted question, “What does a construction manager do? What value do they provide? How much does it cost and how do I go about getting one?”
By Mark Goldman, M.Arch., Dita Peatross, Ph.D.Arch.
(03/05/2009)
(03/05/2009)
Improving Correctional Facility Performance
(02/03/2009)
GEO Group contracted with Oldcastle Security and MCS to provide secure perimeter solutions for three facilities in Florida.
(01/07/2009)
The state Department of Corrections successfully transferred more than 1,100 female inmates in December to the new $120 million Chillicothe Correctional Center.
(12/16/2008)
The federal Bureau of Prisons asked Cornell Companies Inc., a private prison operator, to submit a proposal to expand a private prison here.
(12/16/2008)
Rotondo Weirich, a manufacturer of precast modular prison cells, will supply more than 800 prefinished modular cells for the new $200 million Federal Correctional Institution-Aliceville.
(11/17/2008)
Kane County officials unveiled a new $65 million justice center that includes a 640-bed jail and consolidates law enforcement offices and operations.
(11/17/2008)
GEO Group announced the opening of the 1,500-bed Rio Grande Detention to house detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service.
By Michael Lateef and Wallace Smith
(11/17/2008)
(11/17/2008)
You are excited about your new project. You had to bid aggressively to get it, the margin is not what you would like, but you need the business. Ten months later, one of your major subcontractors suddenly announces they cannot finish the job and five of their vendors have not been paid. Your project is falling behind schedule by the day, you are getting notices from the owner about liquidated damages and you are having a tough time finding a new subcontractor.
(09/19/2008)
The new $205 million La Palma Correctional Center came online as Corrections Corporation of America completed the first phases of the planned 3,060-bed facility.