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

Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation to Use Precast Cells for new Expansion in Rhode Island.

August 2005--Central Falls, RI- Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation awarded the design/bid construction contracts for the expansion of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Wyatt, one of two facilities in the Northeast, is designed, licensed and accredited to accommodate large numbers of federal inmates.

The prison's long awaited expansion will more than double the existing buildings footprint. The corporation plans to add 336 beds to the 310-bed, 85,531 square foot facility, at a cost of approx $35 million. The expansion when complete will feature four (4) multi-story housing units and have a medium and maximum security level.

Oldcastle Precast Modular Group was awarded the contract to design, engineer and manufacture the 236 fully outfitted precast correctional cells that will form the housing units. The housing units feature total precast construction except for the cast-in-place first floors. Each cell consists of four walls and a roof. The cells will ship with all necessary furniture and electrical fixtures , connections, embeds, conduits and will include windows and a finished exterior. Their sister facility, Oldcastle Precast of Rehoboth,MA will be producing the precast components.

The use of modular construction was solicited seeing as modular precast construction has been proven to permit for a shorter construction timetable and is economical.

O. Ahlborg & Sons, Inc.-Cranston, RI is the General Contractor for this project and Edward Rowse Architects, RI is the Architect of Record.

Final completion is slated for June 2007.