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East Mississippi Correctional Facility

Meridian, Mississippi

Owner: Wackenhut Corrections / General Contractor: White Construction Company / Contract Amount: $4,436,50

This facility is a 230,000 square-foot psychiatric prison containing four housing pods, one support building, and one maintenance building. Ivey performed the HVAC, plumbing and utility work for the prison and the piping for the 500,000-gallon water tank. Architectural design of Wackenhut’s 1,000-bed prison called for exterior walls to be constructed of tilt-up panels. A challenge for Ivey was to maintain plumbing rough-in beneath slab until all exterior walls were formed, poured and tilted on the actual building slab. Ivey set 14 roof-top units, ranging from five to 30 tons each, on the support building’s exterior, running duct up along exterior walls and through the attic. Sixteen 20-ton split HVAC systems were installed in the housing pods. Ivey pre-fabricated 128 plumbing risers on site. Ivey worked 67,062 manhours with no recordable accidents.