Kanebec County Jail

Any successful project combines an effective partnership between designers, suppliers and builders. Only through communication, interaction and commitment do projects such as the Kenebec County project meet the goals of the customer and those chosen for implementation. We can tell the story no better than testimonial abstracts from the Architect, “Wells Concrete did an excellent job in working with our designers right from the start of the project. They spent time outlining their processes, quality control and capabilities so that we were able to challenge them to provide a building that “didn’t look like a jail”. With the facility being located adjacent to the existing historical courthouse, within a residential neighborhood and along a busy city street, the public was very skeptical about the design of the jail. They wanted to avoid the industrial park look.

With the help of Wells Concrete our designers were able to develop a series of random panels utilizing various reveals, textures and finishes to achieve an interesting design that met the public’s civic pride while also providing a value and maintaining the county’s tight budget.

Due to the reveal patterns continuing from one panel to another it was critical to the erection process to not only erect in the proper sequence by also to align the reveals with adjacent panels. Wells Concrete’s quality control to execute this design was excellent and the results are a crisp, clean design image.

The project has been praised by the public, the County Board and by all trade contractors involved. This was all made possible by Wells Concrete working collaboratively with the Klein McCarthy Architects to challenge everyone to provide a facility that provided value and maintained the public pride in the community.