Consulting Architect: Michael Fieldman Architects

Completion Date: 2013
Square Footage: 730,000 Interior, 200,000 Exterior
LEED Silver Targeted

The consolidated training facility will provide recruits and officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and New Yorkers with the most advanced law enforcement training facility in the world.

The NYPD has the most extensive and complex training needs of any police force in the United States, involving a total of 4,000 annual recruits, 37,800 police officers, and 17,000 civilian employees. Perkins+Will was retained to design a consolidated training campus that will also be adaptable to evolving training needs and technology.

Sequence 1 of the project is the first phase in the design and construction of the consolidated facility. The 35-acre site will ultimately encompass a diverse group of instructional and support elements, which include a main academic building, an administration building, firearms and tactics and driver training facilities, physical training buildings, a field house, a tactical village, an in-service officers building, dining hall, visitor lodging, assembly hall, museum, central plant, outdoor training grounds, central receiving docks, and a parking structure.

The master plan involves a comprehensive sustainability approach that not only aims to achieve LEED certification, but identifies important general goals to not only reduce the environmental impact of the NYPA facilities, but also to improve existing site and neighborhood conditions. All buildings will be built to achieve at least a LEED Silver rating.