Client
NSW Department of Commerce
Location
Wellington, New South Wales
Completed
2007
Value
$125 million
Role
Structural, civil and
hydraulic engineer
The Wellington Correctional Centre is a 600 bed standalone facility on a greenfields site.
It is a is a minimum and maximum security institution for men and women located in the Central West, 360km north-west of Sydney and 50km south-east of Dubbo.
The new facility caters for an increasing prison population due to new bail laws and tougher policing.
Our role
Woolacotts was engaged by the NSW Government to provide performance specifications and partial documentation for the structural, civil and hydraulic engineering elements of this project.
Outputs of our consultancy were used for a design and construct tender and we were retained by the government as its engineering advisor during construction.
The performance based specifications were based on the lessons learnt from the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre, a project $90 million project also completed by Woolacotts.
Official opening
The prison was officially opened by the Minister for Justice, John Hatzistergos in September 2007.
Other prison projects
The Woolacotts brand is synonymous with prison design, having completed countless projects for governments around Australia and New Zealand.
Other prison projects include:
—Geoffrey Pearce Correctional Centre
—Macquarie Correctional Centre
—South Coast Correctional Centre
—Auckland Women's Prison
—Otago Prison