By the end of the year, Kings County in California will have a modern new courthouse, joining our company’s growing list of justice facilities constructed in the state.
Kings County’s 144,600-square-foot building in Hanford includes 10 courtrooms, with another two courtroom spaces shelled out for future growth, plus a jury assembly room, subterranean parking structure and an underground tunnel that connects to the nearby county jail. Our team of courthouse construction experts is on track to complete the work in December after breaking ground in late 2013.
Sundt has five courthouses it has either built or is working on, including:
Richard E. Arnason Justice Center is an award-winning 73,500-square-foot courthouse in Pittsburg that includes seven courtrooms, judges’ chambers, administrative space, a library, conference rooms and in-custody detention areas. The courthouse opened in 2010 next door to the outdated and overcrowded building it replaced. The new courthouse received LEED Silver certification for its sustainability features. Durable materials were used inside and out: stone and precast concrete on the exterior and inside, stone and solid phenolic panels, with recycled hardwood in the courtrooms.
Mammoth Lakes Courthouse, which opened in 2011, serves as the south county branch of the Superior Court of Mono County in the area’s population center. The 20,000-square-foot facility has a sleek, modern design that uses a steel frame structure and exterior finishes of brick, glass and metal siding. A pointed prow projecting forward from the front of the building – much like the bow of a ship – serves as the architectural focal point.
South County Justice Center, a 96,000-square-foot courthouse in Porterville, opened in 2013. The building, three stories plus basement, includes nine courtrooms, judges’ chambers, courtroom holding areas, jury deliberations rooms, support services, clerks offices and work areas, public walk-up windows and queuing, holding cells and a below-grade sally port.
The Shasta County Courthouse will sit on a two-acre site in Redding located directly across the street from the overcrowded and inadequate existing courthouse that it will replace. Scheduled to be completed in 2020, the six-story, 165,000-square-foot facility will provide 14 courtrooms, consolidating adult and juvenile court operations into one modern, secure location, and delivering two courtrooms to support planned new judgeships. The facility is in the architectural design-preliminary plans phase with construction expected to begin in mid-2017.