In a Feb. 4 announcement seeking qualified bidders, the New York City Dept. of Design and Construction has taken its first crucial step in the design-build delivery of four new jails to replace the ubiquitous Rikers Island facility—potentially changing the local criminal justice system and providing a litmus test for the city's use of this project delivery approach.

The RFQs serve to short-list three vendors for each of four facilities, each worth $1 billion, with the total replacement project worth $8.9 billion: to dismantle the Rikers jail, build a temporary facility, design and construct a new Manhattan jail; clear an old facility in the Bronx and build a new one; and to design and build new jails in Brooklyn and Queens.

截止日期提交资格将在马克h for the Manhattan and Bronx projects and a year later for the other two.

设计-build aside, one industry expert says these first steps are particularly important because firms involved in the design and construction of incarceration facilities will shape the “correctional philosophy” of the city building it.

“There’s a lot of different types of jails designed differently, that have different correctional philosophies,” says Building Trade Employers Association president and CEO Lou Coletti—who 30 years ago oversaw construction of a jail in New Jersey's Union County, in a prior role as its director of criminal justice.

他说：“建造监狱的方式将围绕您将拥有的所有计划。”

This importance is perhaps underscored by the 2018 renovations of the Horizons and Crossroads juvenile detention centers in the Bronx and Brooklyn, respectively. The facilities were built in the 1990s on a strict budget during a financial crisis, which saved money but didn’t provide for modern juvenile justice programs’ “level of therapeutic care,”as ENR New York previously reported。

改造使中心能够更好地提供心理和精神护理，以及其他康复计划。

Coletti回忆说，三十年前，他花了几个月的时间访问了全国“五到六个”设施，设计团队成员的投入至关重要。例如，他们指出了新泽西州伊丽莎白的受约束监狱现场面临的挑战。

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Coletti说，采购方法将简化“规则和规定繁重”的过程，并补充说，监狱的替代Rikers的项目将“绝对”成为该市设计建造愿望的关键衡量标准。新利18备用网址

The DDC in June awarded an AECOM-led joint venture with Hill International a contract, worth $107.4 million, to be the four facilities’ program manager. In a statement, Steve Morriss, AECOM president of design and consulting services in the Americas, called it a “first-of-its-kind transformative design-build program."

地方官员还称赞潜在的好处。

建造team members will “have a tremendous opportunity” to build facilities that “reflect the very best in modern correctional practice,” Dept. of Corrections commissioner Cynthia Brann said in a statement.

市长刑事司法办公室主任伊丽莎白·格拉泽（Elizabeth Glazer）在一份新闻稿中说，她期望公司的意见书将反映“刑事司法系统转型的幅度”。