Skanska starts $312M New Jersey women’s prison

Sweden-based contractor Skanska participated Oct. 15 within the groundbreaking of a $312 million correctional facility for ladies in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey, in keeping with a Wednesday information launch.

The builder’s program administration and consulting group, Skanska Built-in Options, will function the proprietor’s venture supervisor on the venture, which can exchange the present Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. 

At over 112 years previous, EMCF is the state’s solely girls’s correctional facility. Gov. Phil Murphy introduced in 2021 that the facility would close and be fully replaced following a report that discovered correctional officers assaulted multiple inmates. Murphy stated on the time he believed “the one path ahead is to responsibly shut the ability.”

Plans for the brand new, multi-building campus embody 420 beds on a 33-acre website, with emphasis on trauma-informed and normative design rules. The venture will give attention to incorporating security for ladies to raised help with rehabilitation, stakeholders emphasised within the launch.

“This new, state-of-the-art facility displays our dedication to offering a protected, safe, and more healthy setting for our state’s incarcerated girls as they work towards rebuilding their lives for the higher,” stated Murphy, in Skanska’s launch. 

As a part of that design intent, the campus format will search to advertise an open setting the place girls can obtain training, vocational coaching and medical care. The design will search to protect and improve the pure setting, the discharge stated, to create a therapeutic setting. DRG Architects supplied designs for the venture, with subconsultant HOK.

“We’re proud to assist ship a contemporary, compassionate facility that prioritizes security, dignity and rehabilitation whereas supporting the distinctive wants of ladies within the correctional system,” stated Gary Thomson, program government at Skanska Built-in Options, within the launch.

As proprietor’s consultant, SIS will help within the design, planning and building of the brand new facility, to incorporate overseeing the schedule, offering building experience and recommendation and aiding within the logistical operations of venture planning. 

The primary phase of the project is expected to open in 2027, the New Jersey Monitor reported, with full building absolutely accomplished in 2028.