For Immediate Release
Contact: Barbara J. Bogo
Oldcastle Precast Modular Group
215.453.3605
Barbara.bogo@oldcastleprecast.com
http://www.oldcastleprecast.com

PRACTICAL PRISONS--State of North Carolina Building 6th High-Security Prison

October 2005- Site work has begun for the newest and sixth close-custody prison facility for the State of North Carolina located in Columbus County, NC. The North Carolina prison projects consist of the construction of six identical prisons based on a prototype design by the State of North Carolina. The new Columbus County Correctional Institution will be identical in design, layout, and equipment installed, to the five correctional facilities already constructed.

The sixth prison, Columbus County, will be approximately 410,000 square feet , single cell, close-custody. Everything will be one level except the three general population buildings, which fall in a star pattern. The prison will contain 864 general housing cells, divided among three buildings; 128 segregation housing beds, across two buildings; and 8 medical beds, 26 day rooms, 11 control rooms, administrative offices, a central energy plant and recreational facilities.

The newest facility, identical to the first five facilities, will be constructed of precast concrete modular cells provided by Oldcastle Precast Modular Group. NC DOC selected structural precast quad cell modules that are required to be fully painted and outfitted before erection. Oldcastle's four-cell precast modules (Quads) include furniture, lighting, electrical components, plumbing, finishings, vertical and horizontal windows, and openings as specified in the prototype plans. The modules even feature an exterior form liner finish to provide an aesthetically appealing facade.

Columbus County Correctional Institute is the sixth close-custody facility Oldcastle Precast Modular Group has worked on for the State of North Carolina. Oldcastle will engineer, produce, equip and erect the 992 precast prison cells , balcony slabs and plenum units. They will be manufacturing the precast cells and structural components at their sister facility in Fuquay Varina, NC

When the North Carolina Department of Corrections (NC DOC) needed quality ,fasttrack construction it turned to precast concrete building components for the solution. As of January 2005 the State was in the process of finishing the fourth and fifth 1,000-cell high-security prison in Bertie, and Greene County, NC.

Centex Construction is the General Contractor and Little & Associates of North Carolina are the Architect of Record.