Santa Barbara County Clerk Addition

County Clerk and Public Defender Building Addition

Santa Maria, California, 2006

PROJECT STATS

Client: County of Santa Barbara
Size: 19,000 sq. ft. Court Clerk Office and 4,500 sq. ft. Public Defender and District Attorney Building
Year Complete: 2006

DESIGN & ENGINEERING TEAM

Ravatt Albrecht & Associates (Architecture, Mechanical and Electrical), Wallace Group (Civil Engineering), and TEC (Landscape Architecture).

STAKEHOLDERS

County of Santa Barbara
User Group

REQUIRED REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

Local municipality utility requirements
State Building Codes

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

Provide a permanent facility for the Unified Superior Court Clerks and Public Defender Offices that also incorporates the Mediator’s Office.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Ravatt Albrecht & Associates provide programming, design, and construction administration for this new 19,000 sq. ft. Court Clerk Office Building with the addition/remodel of 4,500 sq. ft. infill Public Defender and District Attorney Building.

Work included the construction of the addition to the existing Public Defender Offices which provided a physical link between two separate office areas - improving work efficiency and creating a designated point-of-contact for the public. Project services also required that the design team develop programming and alternate scenario studies for functional budgetary limitations.

The result is a permanent new facility for the County of Santa Barbara to serve its public.

RAVATT ALBRECHT & ASSOCIATES SERVICES

Programming, architectural design, mechanical and plumbing engineering, and construction administration.