The following resources provide information on courthouse planning, design, security, and emergency preparedness topics.
CURRENT PLANNING TOPICS
What will shape the future of courthouse design? | Courthouse planning requires building occupants not only to contemplate the types of spaces and amenities that meet their current operational requirements but also to anticipate needs. By studying court management trends, building occupants and designers can foresee how the built environment may respond. |
Courthouse Reopening Considerations | As courthouses across the nation begin to reopen, various building industry organizations have issued guidelines related to COVID-19 preparedness. |
Coming to Court for Self-Help During COVID-19 | This paper provides examples of practical and attainable solutions for most self-help areas in courthouses. |
Planning to Conduct Jury Trials in Existing Courtrooms | Resuming in-person jury trials in existing courtrooms takes planning. Adjustments to how proceedings are conducted inside the courtroom are needed to keep court participants as safe as possible. Courts need practical solutions that can be implemented temporarily in existing courtrooms until the pandemic is over. Those solutions may be a combination of operational adjustments and changes to how space in the courtroom is used and occupied. |
Miami-Dade County Civil Courthouse | This report explores the successes and challenges of the County and Court leading up to the P3 award for the New Courthouse. These successes and challenges are discussed in detail in the following sections of this report: |
COURTHOUSE PLANNING AND DESIGN GUIDE
Glossary of Planning and Design Terms
Index of Topics
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Attorney-Client Conference Rooms
Back-End Infrastructure - wrong link
Building and Exterior Security
Building Security Control Room
Calculating Gross Square Footage Requirements
Centralized Audio-Video Workroom
Central Prisoner Holding and Transport
Consolidation or Separation of Court Facilities
Consolidation or Separation of Judicial and Detention Facilities
Court Organization and Administration - check
Courthouse Facilities Checklist
Example of a Space Facility Program
Financing Court Facility Construction
Financing With and Without Debt
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Recording of Court Proceedings
Records Management and Storage
Revenues to Reduce the Cost of Borrowing
Traffic and Arraignment Courts
Video Remote Interpretation - wrong link
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BUILDING SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
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