SM&W Contribution
Shen Milsom & Wilke (SM&W) is currently providing acoustic, audiovisual, and security consulting expertise for the planning and design of the new Kent County Family Court located in Dover, DE. The estimated project build-out is approximately 105,000 SF and encompasses three stories. In total, the building will have eight family courtrooms, a truancy courtroom with judges’ chambers, holding areas, and court administrative spaces. The court will serve the Department of Justice, Office of the Child Advocate, Commissioner’s Chambers, and Office of Defense Services.
SM&W’s acoustic consultants focused first on the courtroom and adjacent spaces to ensure privacy, as well as conference rooms, open offices, detainee areas, as well as mechanical rooms, lobby, and public corridors for the schematic design through construction administration phases of the project. SM&W’s audiovisual consultants were brought on board for design services during the schematic design phase. The AV systems included: courtroom AV systems, video docket display system, remote arraignment systems for each courtroom, as well as presentation and conferencing systems in conference rooms.
SM&W’s security consultants were first tasked with providing a thorough security risk assessment for the design of the new courthouse to reflect the appropriate level of security. Our team then continued to provide the full security design of the court facility.
SM&W is also providing design services for the new Sussex County Family Court facility in parallel with this project.
