Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office

Prior to merging with Pickering Associates in 2016, Associated Architects was asked by the Kanawha County Commission to design renovations to two existing buildings to accommodate the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department and the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Charleston, WV. The renovated facilities included training rooms, court rooms, a large vehicle and storage maintenance garage including a wash bay, secure detainee holding and processing center, high security evidence storage and processing room, secured impound lot, secured entry points with built in bullet resistant barriers, emergency ops rooms and back up power, document storage and retention rooms, and office space.

The project team, led by Charles Keefer, AIA, worked with the Kanawha County Commission and key stakeholders to make sure all programmatic needs were accommodated. The completed project cost was more than $10 million.