Charleston County’s 39,500 SF facility combines 911 call activities from 8 separate centers into a centralized Call/Dispatch Center. The building provides an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to coordinate disaster response activities for multiple areas of Charleston. The building houses offices and support spaces for the 911 Consolidated Dispatch activities including sleeping areas, kitchen, and a data/ backup center. The EOC includes a master control room, offices, training rooms, a press debriefing area and support spaces. The building is designed with hardened exterior walls meeting FEMA design criteria for an “essential” facility as per the International Building Code and meets all related seismic and wind debris guidelines as defined in the Department of Energy’s Natural Phenomena Hazards Design and Evaluation Criteria. The project incorporated the following force protection design criteria: 80 foot vehicular standoff, hardened exterior, ballistic rated laminated glass, controlled parking access and controlled entry to building. It has been certified LEED Gold by the USGBC.