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CGL Companies | 27 <br />CORAL GABLES <br />PUBLIC SAFETY <br />BUILDING <br />LOCATION <br />Coral Gables, Florida <br />SIZE <br />120,000 SF <br />COMPLETION DATEDecember 2020 <br />PROJECT COST <br />$48.4 million <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />In May 2017, Coral Gables contracted <br />with the AECOM/CGL team to review and <br />validate the architectural space program <br />for the Coral Gables, Florida Public Safety <br />Building. <br />The new building is to span 120,000 <br />square feet with an adjacent parking <br />garage with 163 spots spanning 70,000 <br />square feet. <br />Five floors are to encompass the city’s <br />Human Resources Department, Labor <br />Relations Department, IT team, police <br />headquarters, police and fire department <br />administration teams, 9-1-1 Call Center, <br />emergency operations center and Fire <br />Station 1. <br />CGL created space allocation tables that <br />identified the component name, number <br />of users/components that will occupy <br />that particular space (person per area), <br />the standard square footage for each area <br />(standard per area), and the total area for <br />that component expressed in net square <br />feet (NSF). Net square feet is the internal <br />size for each component. <br />To determine a functional group’s <br />assigned area, an internal circulation or <br />departmental grossing factor must be <br />applied to all the NSF totals to account <br />for internal wall thickness and circulation <br />between spaces within the operational <br />component. This total is usually <br />expressed as departmental gross square <br />feet (DGSF) and can be used by the <br />design team to test fit functional groups <br />within an existing floor plate. <br />The proposed building program includes <br />a “circulation factor” which achieves a <br />similar result. A Gross Area Factor is <br />applied to the net area for general building <br />circulation, wall thickness and chases.