RED DEER, ALTA. — Construction of the new Red Deer Justice Centre is now complete with Alberta Infrastructure turning it over to Alberta Justice who will outfit the facility with furniture and equipment to prepare the building for the public.
Slated to open and begin operating in early 2025, the 312,000-square-foot facility has space for 16 courtrooms, with 12 courtrooms fully built and the ability to add up to four additional courtrooms for future use.
The centre will replace the city’s existing outdated court facilities that have been operating at capacity, a release states.
Construction on the new centre began in August 2020. It was designed by Group2 Architecture and Interior Design, in conjunction with justice facility specialists DLR Group. The build supported about 1,100Â construction-related jobs from start to finish and had approved project funding of about $203.1 million.
All in the new facility includes spaces for alternative approaches to the traditional courtroom trial process, with three new suites for judicial dispute resolution services, a specific suite for other dispute resolution services, such as family mediation and civil mediation, and a new Indigenous courtroom able to accommodate smudging, the release explains.
The centre is built to LEED Silver standards.
There are currently five courthouse capital projects in planning or design throughout the province.
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