News
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JWA Celebrates 30th Anniversary
June 14, 2011
This May, Jacobs/Wyper Architects celebrated 30 years of business providing architectural, planning, and interior design services. The celebration was held at a Phillies game where JWA staff, families, friends, and clients gathered for a pregame cookout before heading into Citizen’s Bank Park to watch the Phillies battle the Cincinnati Reds. The Philly Phanatic also made a special appearance at the cookout, taking pictures and entertaining the crowd.
Jacobs/Wyper was founded in 1981 with a specialization in solar residential architecture. Since that time, JWA has broadened their expertise to include major educational, municipal, and pharmaceutical clients. The firm is recognized for its expertise in technological design, including as a subject matter expert in mission critical, laboratory and cGMP pharmaceutical design. In 2010, the firm was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as the #21 ranking architectural firm in Philadelphia.
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BD Diagnostics - Women's Health and Cancer Facility achieves LEED Silver!
October 21, 2010
The new BD facility in Mebane, NC, which supports the company’s Women’s Health and Cancer strategy, recently received LEED Silver Certification. Jacobs/Wyper designed the facility in a fast-track collaboration with engineers, contractors, and owner in 7 months.
The facility utilizes a previously constructed 100,500 sf shell, of which 64,500 sf has been fit out with office, conference, manufacturing, lab, and support spaces. The majority of the existing architecture was preserved, although windows and sunshades were added to provide natural lighting and reduce cooling loads. The envelope of the entire structure was enhanced with additional insulating value to reduce cooling and heating.
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Mission Critical Website Launches
March 20, 2009
Today we launched the mission critical website.
Recent Projects
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The new headquarters will be a hardened facility serving as the technological and administrative hub for the district’s PSAPs. Included are systems training, command & control center monitoring supported agencies, IT support and configuration, and back-up PSAP site. The two-story building incorporates extensive security measures and is designed to withstand category 3 hurricane wind forces.
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Situated adjacent to the Sussex County Airport in Georgetown, DE, the 21,000 sf project incorporates hardened, blast-resistant construction into a one-story building housing the 9-1-1 communications center, EOC, critical equipment room, redundant electrical and telecommunications services, multi-zone HVAC system, and cabling backbone/horizontal distribution. Support spaces within the facility will include conference and office spaces, a reception area, a mechanical room, restrooms, a bunk room with showers, and a kitchen.
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Designed telecommunications switching facilities incorporating secured access for remote surveillance and access control.
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These projects are renovations within existing buildings for new Point of Presence facilities housing telecommunications equipment and cabling.
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County EOC
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- Programming, site evaluation and conceptual design services provided Beaver County with design and cost basis to plan and engage site developer for full project execution. Project is currently underway.
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Networking projects providing new data and telecommunications systems to residential and academic buildings.
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Troop K, the largest troop in the PA State Police, is currently experiencing a rapid personnel increase due to assuming patrol of all major highways within the Philadelphia city limits.
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The new center was the result of a county consolidation of emergency communications intended to improve quality of 911 service, efficiency and professionalism. The new center is located within a campus of County facilities and provides for significant facility expansion in one of the regions fastest growing areas. The facility incorporates significant security, hardened and infrastructure redundancy/diversity measures.
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A 70,000 sf headquarters relocation which included two Tandem K-20,000 Supercomputers, fault tolerant system with 100% redundancy and full emergency power coverage with UPS for equipment.
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This 15,000 sf new center addresses current site vulnerabilities and provides a state-of-the-art environment for new technology implementation for Cabell County Public Safety. The center is sited with the new county EMS center on an older Huntington commercial thoroughfare surrounded by residential neighborhoods.
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Site Evaluation Studies
Peer Reviews
On-site PSAP Design Seminars
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As an outgrowth of a county-wide Emergency Communications, services focused on defining organizational structure and needs definition for the newly developed county emergency communications district. Programming and alternative site evaluations focused on establishment of a twenty-five year plan for Morris County. The proposed center is also the home of Morris County Emergency Management and a data farm for County IT.
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This project will provide renovations to the Public Safety Facilities in the town of Highland Park, Texas, including replacement of the existing emergency communications and detainee processing and holding areas. The work will be congruent with the historic character and style of the building.
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This project included the replacement of older, deficient SWAT, Bomb Disposal, and Canine units on the campus of the Philadelphia Police Academy. The co-location of these units will help develop a cross platform environment, which will support the creation of a unified Tactical Response Team within the Police force.
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In association with The Robinson Green Beretta Corporation, architectural/engineering services to the Rhode Island State Police addressed programming and design of a 130,000 sf new headquarters facility. The project involved reviewing current facilities for the purpose of identifying operational and technological needs, creating a new facility to meet expanding requirements, improving the flexibility of its functional usage, incorporating proper security measures, and providing for the latest information processing and data retrieval systems. The facility also includes extensive property and evidence processing/storage and new 30,000 SF RISP forensics labs. The facility will provide for centralized dispatch, reallocation of personnel allowing for continued service in the communities presently served, centralized storage of records, a secure evidence area, and technology expansion.
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In recognition of the need to address progressively crowding conditions within the Ogden City Police & Fire Public Safety Center, a facility needs assessment was conducted to determine expansion or relocation options.