Ramtech Receives Top Honors for Modular Police Facility in Texas

Design-build construction firm Ramtech Building Systems has received a first-place Awards of Distinction trophy at the 41st annual Modular Building Institute 2024 World of Modular Conference and Tradeshow. Over 1,500 attendees gathered at the sold-out conference for networking opportunities and to hear speakers and presenters from across the world.

Ramtech received the award in the Relocatable Modular Correctional category for the 4,760-square-foot police station and short-term holding facility built and installed for the city of Clyde, Texas. The facility was designed to replace an aging facility with the criteria that it could be easily relocated in the future if required.

The relocatable modular building provides space for private offices for the chief of police and his support staff, a large training area for patrol officers, one intake and two interrogation rooms and a patrol work room with an adjoining short-term holding area. It also contains large evidence and file storage areas, an I/T room, break room, armory, and shower and locker rooms.

The building finishes were selected for prioritizing security and resilience by using impact-resistant gypsum on the interior walls and resilient tile flooring. The secure ceilings in the intake, interrogation and holding rooms used painted gypsum wall board with acoustical lay-in tile in all of the other common areas. The exterior utilized a parapet wall design, which combined ribbed steel panels with a masonry wainscot.

The police station was set and finished out while the new asphalt parking lot was concurrently poured and finished adjacent to the caliche building pad. The city’s key motivations for the project were the speed that modular construction provides, along with the control of the direct and indirect costs, which required shifting as many work scopes as possible to the manufacturing phase.

See all 2024 MBI Awards of Distinction entries at modular.org.