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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Local firm wins contract to conceptualise 10 halls of justice

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20101118

A lo­cal firm of ar­chi­tects, acla:works, well known for its ar­chi­tec­tur­al and in­te­ri­or works, has been ap­point­ed to lead a mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary team of eight firms from T&T and St Lu­cia that will con­duct site sur­veys in ten Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS) and pre­pare user re­quire­ments and con­cep­tu­al de­signs for ten new halls of jus­tice.?The halls of jus­tice are to be de­vel­oped as part of a com­pre­hen­sive ju­di­cial re­form pro­gramme in OECS ter­ri­to­ries: St Lu­cia, Grena­da, St Vin­cent, St Kitts, Do­mini­ca, Nevis, Montser­rat, the British Vir­gin Is­lands, An­guil­la and An­tigua.

The projects vary from 20,000 square feet to 60,000 square feet. This stage of the project is be­ing fund­ed through a grant from the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank and the project sum for this the con­cep­tu­al/fea­si­bil­i­ty stage is (US)$500,000. "The study will de­ter­mine the bud­gets for the ten con­struc­tion projects, which will al­low the coun­tries to at­tract in­ter­na­tion­al fund­ing," said acla:works' Bri­an Lewis, who praised the de­sign of the process. Project di­rec­tor, Kevin Mag­ill, said: "Once the con­sul­tants have com­plet­ed their work, their re­port will be used to iden­ti­fy sources of fund­ing for the fu­ture phas­es."

This phase of the process start­ed in Oc­to­ber with the se­lec­tion of the con­sor­tium and is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by May 2011. Asked about the ra­tio­nale for a project re­lat­ing to new court hous­es, Mag­ill said: "In some ter­ri­to­ries, the courts have out­grown their cur­rent phys­i­cal fa­cil­i­ties and/or are in need of re­pair or ex­ten­sive ren­o­va­tion. "An ear­li­er study had de­ter­mined that con­struct­ing new build­ings would be more cost ef­fec­tive as new tech­nolo­gies, such as re­mote tes­ti­mo­ny, could be ac­com­mo­dat­ed." Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease, the acla:works halls of jus­tice con­sor­tium was se­lect­ed against oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al firms such as Stan­tec, OBM In­ter­na­tion­al, Geni­var, NL­BA (St. Lu­cia) and oth­ers.

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The con­sor­tium com­pris­es:

�2 acla:works (project lead­ers and ar­chi­tects)

�2 mel­on de­sign (St Lu­cian ar­chi­tects)

�2 BBFL Phillips En­gi­neer­ing (struc­tur­al eng)

�2 EN­CO (T&T me­chan­i­cal and elec­tri­cal en­gi­neers)

�2 Bradley Paul As­so­ciates (St Lu­cian quan­ti­ty sur­vey­ors)

�2 Eco­engi­neer­ing Con­sul­tants (T&T en­vi­ron­men­tal en­gi­neers)

�2 Earth In­ves­ti­ga­tion Sys­tems (T&T ge­ot­ech­ni­cal en­gi­neers), and

�2 De­vel­op­ment Plan­ning Con­sul­tant Ser­vices (St Lu­cian de­vel­op­ment and en­vi­ron­men­tal plan­ners)

Mem­bers of the con­sor­tium have just re­turned from a five-day re­con­nais­sance tour of the 10 states, and have com­menced the project by re­view­ing the se­lect­ed sites for the halls of jus­tice build­ings in each ter­ri­to­ry. Based in T&T, acla:works al­so has branch of­fices in Bar­ba­dos and St Lu­cia. The com­pa­ny gained pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence work­ing on T&T's Hall of Jus­tice.?


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