CMW in Lexington, Kentucky has grown into one of Kentucky’s leading architectural firms. CMW has over 55 years of experience in the planning, design and construction of jails and detention centers. In fact, CMW has designed more jails and detention centers than any other architectural firm in Kentucky. We are a full service architectural and planning firm dedicated to excellence. A multidisciplinary design firm, CMW provides services in architecture, engineering, interior design and landscape architecture. As jail and detention center architects, CMW provides a full range of facility planning and operations consulting services. Our size allows for flexibility, efficiency, responsiveness and high quality personal involvement on all projects. CMW strives to provide high quality, personalized, cost-effective jail and detention center facility and operational planning services to our clients. We assist our clients from the inception of the planning and development process through design, construction and final occupancy. When it comes to jails and detention centers, our architects at CMW recognize our responsibility as steward of the public trust relative to meeting schedule and capital budget requirements, as well as reducing the long term cost of operations. Our belief and practice at CMW is that the client is an integral part of the project team. Working together, we first seek to understand all of the issues to be addressed with each jail and detention center project, then develop solutions that best respond to those issues. We work with our clients to introduce innovative solutions to completing the project. Our focus is to create a design program that is safe, practical and efficient. Our extensive hands-on study of the fundamental blending of design and craftsmanship gives the jail architects at CMW the unique, instinctive ability to provide creative and innovative jail design solutions to the needs of our clients with the first-hand knowledge and experience essential to the effective implementation of those solutions during the construction process. CMW provides superior designed jail and detention center projects, which are both cost-effective to build and operate. We understand our clients’ needs.
CMW brings our extensive background in the development of standards and design approaches that deliver pleasing environments, supportive of the functions being housed, and which incorporate security requirements in an unobtrusive manner. Our jail and detention center architects are equipped to assist client jurisdictions in the very early stages of the needs assessment, existing facility evaluation and identification of facility requirements on a current and projected basis. A range of services are offered by CMW, according to individual jurisdictional need, to structure and inform the solution-finding process in advance of the architectural and construction phase activities that follow. We are also accustomed to assisting in the project design phases of jails and detention centers where the project requirements have been defined and the focus is upon the translation of the identified needs into their architectural, engineering and specialized systems requirements.
CMW is committed to working with our clients to reconcile the specific challenges of jail and detention center inmates, while protecting and reassuring the public.
The jail and detention center architects at CMW offer a full range of services:
Every jail and detention center design has a unique set of goals, needs and circumstances. A good design should take all of those into consideration and be the appropriate solution, understanding the past and considering its’ place in the future. CMW in Lexington, Kentucky stands ready to go to work for you.
