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Police officers standing in formation outdoors next to flags and pillars at Golden West College, Regional Public Safety Training Center

Golden West College, Regional Public Safety Training Center

Community Protection, Partnership, and Respect

Project Location

Huntington Beach, CA

Area

44,000 SF

Completion

2018

Project Delivery

Design-build

The need for the new training center grew out of the dual need to provide classroom and practical training space for the college’s own criminal justice program and a police academy in the same facility. Golden West College criminal justice program stakeholders wanted to ensure proper and clear separation between the cadets and students for safety and security.

The design provided an orderly sequence of training. Covering a required range of experiences from spaces for the most academic classroom education to hands-on, intensely practical training experience within the span of a rather compact urban space, a crisp training flow that builds upon layers of academic and practical training regimen. Flow and flexibility were crucial goals in the efficient design-build delivery of this project, in service to an overarching goal to train future police officers with an ethos of community protection and partnership.

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Organizational Training Excellence Award from the California State Commission on Peace Officer Training and Standards

Working on this project alongside the folks from DLR Group have earned my deepest respect. Without any reservation I would highly recommend they be given positive consideration for any future projects.”

Ron Lowenberg Retired Director, Criminal Justice Training, Golden West College
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“A significant contributing factor in receiving this recognition was the completion of all new facilities to include state-of-the-art classrooms, technologically advanced force option simulation lab, a large specially designed arrest and control room, lifetime fitness lab, student/staff locker rooms and showers, a large multifaceted scenario village and center administrative offices,” said Lowenberg. “The center was a design/build project completed in record time. Not only is the center’s design pleasing to the eye, more importantly, it is operationally an excellent facility.”

Award

2019 Organizational Achievement

California State Commission

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