First Responder Facilities
City of El Paso | Upper Eastside Regional Command Center
Broaddus & Associates served as the Construction Manager-Agent and Resident Construction Representative for the City of El Paso for its first new Regional Command Center in 24 years. Located in the ‘Upper Eastside’ district, the $38.6M facility is the El Paso Police Department’s sixth Regional Command Center. The new center is the second project of a $413M El Paso Public Safety Bond approved by voters in 2019, which funded new police and fire facilities and renovations to current buildings.
The new 41,200-SF Regional Command Center includes offices, holding cells, an officer fitness area, a public community room, secured parking, and a municipal-court bond area. The Regional Command Center property is also the home of a new fire station also included in the approved bond election. The project scope included adding required utility infrastructure such as electrical, water, fire line, and storm drains to support the new fire station.The new Regional Command Center is part of the city’s strategic plan to support the needs of growth and development El Paso has experienced in recent years.
Broaddus & Associates provided daily field reports and project management to the Capital Improvement District Project Manager to ensure scope, schedule, and budget management remained in alignment with the City of El Paso’s requirements.
Through the duration of construction, Broaddus & Associates logged $461, 478 in Value Add ranging from scope and pricing validation, schedule reduction, value engineering, constructability, and escalation management