The City of New York Department of General Services for Department of Correction
Infirmary/Mental Health Center,
Rikers Island New York
The Department of Corrections (DOC) plans to expand and renovate the existing food service facility at EMCFW. The improvement program will increase the food production capacity at the existing facility from 13,500 meals per day to 18,000 meals per day. The required food production capacity, in terms of cooking area, storage space (dry, chilled, and frozen) and utility area, will be expanded to meet the expanding service demands of the inmate population and staff for all five institutions. The expansion also includes a new visitors' enterance and package building with an adjacent parking area for approximately 80 cars. This multi-security prison for women houses a total population of approximately 1,100 female inmates. The existing food service building, constructed in 1967, is a two story )basement and main floor) steel structure encased in reinforced concrete with block and brick exterior walls. The building contains staff and inmate dining rooms and food preparation areas on the main level and food delivery and storage in the basement. Origninally designed to provide for meal preparation for EMCFW and the adjacent Hunterdon Developmental Center, this facility currently supports meal preparation for three additional institutions.
This study, prepared by Gonchor, in conjunction with the Division of Building and Construction and DOC, was commissioned to provide the State with the documentation needed to assess comprehensively the current situation. The study recommended a specific program of improvements, locations for those improvements and the preparation of RFP documents, including design concepts, for the solicitation of design/build proposals for construction. As the result of this study, we recommended that the State construct an addition to the existing food service building, new space be constructed to house those displaced functions and the construction of a new roadway to service both buildings.
Services
Feasability Planning
Construction Cost
$11,000,000
Completion Date
1995
Square Footage
43,000 (New)
29,000 (Renovtion)
7,400 (Enterance Building)
