Campus Master Plan connects Public Safety Center Expansion to campus

K&W designers collaborated with college’s staff and stakeholders to create a Campus Master Plan that supports the expansion of the John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center and better connects it to the overall campus. The Public Safety Center provides state-of-the-art educational and training facilities for the region’s first responders. The project included a new Police Academy classroom and administrative facilities, physical fitness / recreation facilities, expanded skid pad and emergency vehicle operators’ course (EVOC), confined space rescue, urban search and rescue training area, improvements to existing fire fighting facilities, and additional parking facilities along with pedestrian walkways linking the PSC campus to the main HACC campus at the southern end of the project.

K&W worked with the PA Department of Environmental Protection (PaDEP) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) to both protect and incorporate environmentally sensitive areas (i.e. wetlands and floodplains) into the proposed improvements. In addition, K&W collaborated with the Capital Area Greenbelt Association to relocate a portion of the Greenbelt in this portion of the campus and weave that pathway into the fabric of the PSC facility (including the environmental areas noted above).

Multiple funding sources, including RACP grants, made the project possible. It has become the premier training center in the region, with more than 30,000 first responders using the revitalized facility annually. The project secured LEED Silver Certification.