Montgomery County, MD was planning an expansion of its circuit courthouse. Several programming studies had already been conducted for the project, but county officials wanted an independent verification of the future needs and a revised space program to finalize the scope of the project.
Fentress was hired by the URS Corporation (now AECOM), the prime contractor working on the Montgomery County circuit courthouse expansion, to:
- Review the past programming documents
- Gather additional facility information through site assessments and interviews with court personnel
- Conduct an analysis of the court in comparison with similar court districts from around the country (comparisons included demographic, economic, workload, and judge data)
- Prepare a detailed space program that included a trend analysis, court component descriptions, space needs, security, and adjacency and housing requirements
