SCG was engaged to design and manage the upgrade of the existing Incident Management Centre (IMC) security management systems across the Queensland Correctional network to virtualise the workstations and provide simple remote connection to the systems at each correctional centre via a dashboard-style overlay application.

SCG has been engaged by the Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works, on behalf of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General, to implement a program of works to address obsolescence issues with perimeter electronic security systems and associated electrical systems in order to enhance safety and security, and to extend the useable life of Townsville Correctional Facility.  This includes detailed design and oversight of the implementation in a live operational environment.

This project included a 358 bed (approximately 100%) expansion of the former Ararat Prison to create the Hopkins Correctional Centre.

SCG team members provided integrated security design services for the refurbishment and extension of Hopkins. On completion, the $500m project increased the prison’s capacity from 350 beds to 758 beds and included campus style accommodation, a therapeutic community for the older inmates and a special protection unit.

Other facilities constructed on site include a Gatehouse, Management and Support Operations Building, Reception/Discharge, Visits, Health building, Kitchen/Laundry, Recreation Building, Multipath, Education, Industries, FM Offices, Stores and Security Perimeter.

The Hopkins Correctional Facility was completed in 2015 and provides a modern facility for Corrections Victoria to operate and rehabilitate inmates back into the community. A key requirement of the project was for it to remain operational throughout construction and SCG team members developed the detailed plan to achieve this, including the cut over from old to new Gatehouse buildings and associated security control and equipment/server rooms.

SCG team members provided services for the temporary perimeter upgrade and expansion of the electronic security systems. The security design includes all new security systems, Security Control Room, Perimeter Detection, CCTV surveillance, Electronic Access Control Intruder Detection, Mobile Duress Alarm, and Accoutrement Management systems, as well as the integration of the former Ararat prison security systems into the newly expanded facility.

SCG team members led the security planning, design, and documentation for this $1.5Billion, 23,000 inmate complex, which is the largest custodial facility in the world.

At the time of engagement in 2004, initial components of the complex were constructed. The SCG team members were tasked to prepare a coordinated security concept plan, which offered sufficient flexibility to accommodate the client’s evolving custodial management plan for Singapore, while dealing with its very significant logistical and security challenges.

Among other elements, the concept plan achieved this aim through the alteration of the many perimeter containment lines throughout the complex and, through these planning alterations, delivered significant long term savings to the client.

Our team members were also responsible for the planning, design, and documentation for much of the additional facilities at the Complex, including the accommodation clusters, associated logistical, support and security buildings and perimeters.

The project includes 134 major control rooms, several pedestrian gatehouses, numerous vehicle gatehouses, a Transit Centre designed to process 600 maximum security truck movements per day, a Prison Headquarters Complex, SPEAR Force base and many kilometres of maximum-security perimeter, configured in layers to create Clusters, each of which accommodate approximately 6,500 inmates.