Council Approves Building Emergency Ops Center At City Springs

SANDY SPRINGS, GA — The Sandy Springs City Council on Tuesday voted to award a contract to a company to relocate its Emergency Operations Center to the City Springs development.

Council members at their Dec. 18 meeting voted to award the contract to Rubio and Son Interiors, Inc. to perform the work for $329,554.09. Rubio will perform the necessary tasks in getting the EOC up and running at City Springs, including connecting the EOC to emergency backup generators; connecting the HVAC system into the existing building automation system; installing a 5-ton rooftop unit to support the added UPS room and installing a 4-inch raised floor to help with cable management.

The Council also approved a $400,193 contract with Utilicom Supply Associates to install a video wall at the EOC. The system will have the ability to communicate directly with an existing video wall system, and includes a 55-inch 6x3 (six screens across and three going down) video wall, audio and video teleconferencing system, conference room system, four additional auxiliary display systems, cabling and wire management and technical support.

The EOC will be located on the fourth floor at City Springs, and will be about 2,000 square feet. City spokesperson Sharon Kraun said construction is expected to be done by the spring.

Dave Wells, director of facilities for Sandy Springs, said the city performed a needs assessment in November 2017 to determine what would it take to move the EOC from the old City Hall at the Morgan Falls Office Park to City Springs.

That team, which consisted of architectural firm Hughes Turner and Phillips and other city staff members to help in this process, visited emergency operations centers in Gwinnett County, Cobb County and Atlanta to generate ideas for the project.

Following those tours, Hughes/Turner and Philips provided Sandy Springs with a conceptual drawing and an estimated construction cost of $750,000. Both contracts were approved contingent upon legal and finance department review.

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