Secured Circulation in Older Courthouses

In our last post on courthouse circulation, I described a historic Washington courthouse that lacked separate circulation routes for judges, prisoners, and the public. Today, I’d like to discuss how circulation issues in older courthouses can affect...

Defining the Problems with Historic Courthouse Circulation

Understanding and defining the problems in modern courthouse circulation is critical to improving historic older courthouses. In this new series, we will examine the issues with courthouse circulation and how courthouse planning can address...

The connection between the judge's chambers and the courtroom it serves is one of the most essential circulation relationships in a courthouse. This is partly due to the need to provide a conveniently close distance between judges' chambers and the courtroom to allow efficient communication and...

Today, our focus is on internal circulation issues associated with renovating space to accommodate a judge’s chambers. A judge’s chambers suite typically contains the judge’s private office, reception area, one or more law clerks, conference/reference room (unless this area is included as part of...

Green Building objectives (along with certification processes like LEED) can benefit both the environment and the individual court when applied to a courtroom renovation project. Sustainable building practices relating to a courthouse may fall into several general categories, including the...