Contra Costa County Emergency Operations Center
Designed to operate independently from the city during an emergency, the Public Safety Building and Emergency Operations Center is equipped with disaster management and public safety technology.
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Overview
Designed to operate independently from the city during an emergency, the new Emergency Operations Center / Public Safety Building is equipped with state-of-the-art disaster management and public safety technology.
A two-story facility serves as the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and is sited adjacent to a one-story, high bay lecture hall. Both buildings were constructed with shallow foundations due to the bedrock at the site location and designed to be seismically separate, each with a seismic joint sized to accommodate deflections.
We provided structural design services to Dreyfuss + Blackford for both buildings, which opened in 2020.
Highlights
- The two-story EOC building is steel-framed with precast concrete walls. The lateral system is a ConXtech moment frame system to provide a high degree of ductility and resiliency to allow for post-earthquake operability.
- Several safety and privacy measures were implemented, including ballistic rated walls and windows and fixed sound absorptive panels. The building additionally houses offices and operations for the sheriff’s department, including a Situation Room for use during emergency operations.
- The smaller lecture hall is a steel-framed building with concrete wall panels, and includes additional features such as a folding glass wall, structural ceiling grid, fixed sound absorptive panels and a retractable stage.