CASE STUDY ATLANTA BUREAU OF PRISONS WATER CONSERVATION RETROFIT Atlanta’s United States Penitentiary, is located in Benteen Park, Atlanta Georga. Construction of the prison was authorized in 1899 and the prison was completed in January 1902. It encompassed 300 acres originally to accommodate 1200 prisoners. Today it’s population is 1909 inmates in the penitentiary and 554 in the camp. The main prison building was designed by the St. Louis, Missouri architect firm of Eames and Young, which also designed the main building at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. THE CLIENT CHALLENGE Federal agencies must reduce energy use in their facilities by 30% from their 2005 baseline by 2015. The facility houses over 1,900 inmates in both medium and minimum security facilit

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