Facility Description:
The Lew Sterrett Correctional Facility in Dallas, Texas, is a large county jail complex that serves as the main detention center for Dallas County. The facility spans multiple buildings within a secured campus, including the North Tower, West Tower, and Suzanne Kays Detention Facility, collectively housing thousands of inmates. The central plant of the facility is critical to its operations, providing essential utilities like heating, cooling, and electricity; it has a cooling capacity of approximately 5,000 tons and is crucial for maintaining the climate-controlled environment across the large campus. The plant is designed for efficiency to ensure reliable operation under the demanding conditions of a correctional facility. The facility is designed to support both the short-term and long-term detention needs of Dallas County, with a focus on security, efficiency, and inmate management.
Timberlake & Dickson Scope:
Timberlake & Dickson has provided labor and materials to conduct a turnkey rebuild of the cooling towers that serve the 5,000 ton central plant. Timberlake & Dickson’s scope of work included furnishing temporary equipment on site to accommodate the needs of the building while the existing equipment was offline during the project.
Notable facts:
The complex is one of the largest county jail systems in Texas, with a capacity to hold over 7,000 inmates at any given time, making it a central component of the Dallas County criminal justice system.
