OPCSO Warehouse, Food Facility and Central Plant
Project Information
- Owner Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office
- Design Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects with Grace & Hebert Architects
- Size 163,885 Square Feet
- Budget $76,780,000
- Completion April 2012
In the News
The Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's Office's new project is an impressive facility that will feature a central plant, food facilities and warehousing. Support for several current and planned inmate housing facilities will be provided by the new facility at Orleans Parish Prison. Woodward Design+Build is constructing this new facility. Although it has 3 main floors, the building is actually the height of a 9 story building at 100 feet tall. The 1st floor will provide warehouse space only. The 2nd floor will house food services and all kitchen equipment. The 3rd floor is reserved for all central plant equipment. The building was designed this way to protect all central plant and kitchen equipment from any possible flooding in the area.
The Central Plant is capable of producing 8 mega-watts of emergency power generation. In addition, it has over 6,500 tons of cooling. The warehouse has over 1 mile of shelving. The Kitchen can prepare 25,000 meals in a 12-14 hour period. In addition, it can maintain the prepared meals in its freezers for 45 days.
Not only will the food facilities provide all prison meals, but they will also prepare and deliver numerous meals for Orleans Parish Schools.
