Architect: HDR
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Project Size: 569,000 square feet, 39 Courtrooms
Construction Cost: $100 Million
Systems Commissioned: Central Plant, HVAC systems, Smoke evacuation, Electrical, Emergency Power

Charlotte’s new county courthouse consolidates the court functions previously housed in three separate buildings to provide accommodation for Superior and District Courts, including thirty-nine criminal, civil and family courtrooms, a collegial judges’ office floor, the offices of the Court Clerk and Trial Court Administrator, civil processing functions of the Sheriff’s Department and jury assembly space.

Architect: Little and Associates
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Number of Beds: Phase I - 1,000; Phase II - 960
Construction Cost: $100 Million
Systems Commissioned: Central Plant, HVAC systems, Smoke evacuation, Electrical, Emergency Power

Charlotte’s 1,960 bed inmate and detention center provides a single-cell, direct supervision facility within the constraints of a prominent downtown government complex. The building was built in two phases. Phase I contains 1,000 beds and Phase II provided an additional 960 beds.