May 11, 2015: Balfour Beatty Awarded Design-Build Contract for New Correctional Facility
Contractual Target Goal Is to Subcontract 25 Percent of Design and Construction Services to Local Businesses
SAN DIEGO — Kern County has selected Balfour Beatty Construction to design and construct a new $100.5 million addition to the Kern County Justice Facility located in Bakersfield, California. The 215,000-square-foot facility is expected to create 350 to 400 jobs for the local community, including a contractual target goal to subcontract 25 percent of design and construction services to local businesses with 35 percent of the labor supplied by local workers.
The 24-plus acre project site is part of the larger county-owned Lerdo Detention Facility site. The project scope includes the design and construction of housing and support facilities for 822 inmates, including a central plant for heating and cooling.