Overview
Prime Architects designed full replacement of the EST-3 fire alarm system with an EST-4 platform across FCC Beaumont. The scope covers 10 buildings housing 4,650 inmates. The secure complex had to keep operating without interruption.
Technical Scope
- Fire Protection/Life Safety: Removal of the legacy EST-3 system. New EST-4 panels, annunciators, detectors, strobes and pull stations, with a campus-wide graphical interface.
- Electrical: Selective reuse of existing conduit and wiring where feasible to cut cost and disruption. Design to NEC.
- Design phases: 35%, 65% and 100% submittals.
- CPS: Submittal reviews, RFI responses and four on-site inspections; FBOP reviews, operational planning and commissioning.
Project Data:
- Client / agency: Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Location: Federal Correctional Complex (FCC), Beaumont, TX
- Size: 10 buildings, campus-wide; inmate population 4,650
- Est. construction cost: $9,707,908
- Completed: Design 2025 / construction TBD
- Project type: Infrastructure (fire alarm system replacement)
- Delivery / contract: Design-bid-build
- Facility condition: Active federal correctional facility
- Prime Architects role: Prime A/E: full architectural and engineering design, construction administration
- Criteria: NFPA, NEC, ADA/TAS, FBOP Technical Design Guidelines
Relevant If Your Project Involves:
- Campus-wide fire alarm replacement
- Active correctional facility
- FBOP Technical Design Guidelines
- EST fire alarm systems