Correctional Facilities
Prisons and detention centres — security built into every detail of the fabric.
Correctional work is residential construction with the risks inverted: the fabric itself is the security system. The frame, envelope and services are the familiar shared methods, linked below — but every cell door, every grille, every anti-ligature detail and every metre of the perimeter is a security component with its own specification, its own testing and its own witness points.
The three guides in this sector cover prison construction — houseblocks built to hold, not just to house; custodial fit-out and security systems, where locks, doors and detection are commissioned like process plant; and services commissioning in an estate where a failure is a security incident, not a maintenance ticket. Quality control is witness-heavy throughout, and handover tests the locks before it tests the lights.
What does Correctional Facilities cover?
Process guides in Correctional Facilities
- Prison Construction — The custodial estate from the ground up — galleried houseblocks of repetitive cell floors, precast cell options, a perimeter that is the first and last line of security, gatehouses, vehicle locks and exercise yards, all to Ministry of Justice specifications.
- Custodial Fit-Out & Security Systems — Fitting out the inside of a secure establishment — detention-grade cell furniture and sanitaryware, doors and locks that are security equipment first and joinery second, grilles, CCTV and the control rooms that watch it all.
- Custodial Services & Secure Commissioning — Making the engineering of a prison provable — tamper-proof MEP inside the secure envelope, water and power an operator can control, interlocked doors and integrated controls, and the witnessed testing and decant that turn a building site into an operating prison.
Shared methods used in Correctional Facilities
- Site Access & Enabling Works
- Setting Out & Survey Control
- Earthworks & Excavation
- Shallow Foundations
- Concrete Frame Construction
- Steel Frame Construction
- Masonry & Timber Frame
- Roofing
- Façade & Cladding
- MEP First Fix
- MEP Second Fix & Commissioning
- Testing, Handover & Snagging
Part of the Buildings group.