Allco’s Civil Division dug this project out of trouble. The Jefferson County Jail Complex was set to be located at the site of an old crawfish farm. The complex includes a variety of buildings including: administrative offices, inmate dining hall, four male and one female dorm buildings, maintenance shop, morgue, and an indoor/outdoor recreation area. With construction of the facilities beginning in the two wettest months of the year, Allco had some innovative solutions to getting the foundation of the facilities poured. The Civil Division prepped the terrain and laid a wooden plank road as far as the concrete trucks could travel onto the marshy site. At the end of the road, the team had a series of additional trucks which stayed in place until the concrete foundations were complete. Allco instructed that the concrete be transferred from one truck to the next in the series until the concrete made it to the final truck, which poured the concrete into the foundation frames. The coordination of this task was accomplished because of forward thinking professionals. In addition to the facilities being completed, the project had a special factor which Allco is proud. The Jefferson County Jail Complex marked Allco’s first Mentor/Protégé relationship in which Allco mentored a subcontractor throughout the project, resulting in the company becoming a successful general contractor in the Beaumont area.

Project Name:	Jefferson County Jail Complex
Client:	Jefferson County
Location:	Jefferson County
Date:	1992
Duration:	18 months
Size:	81,000 sq ft. 49 Acres 7 Buildings
Cost:	10,300,000
A/E	White Budd VanNess
Delivery Type:	CSP