Our long list of projects and fortune 100 clients have made us specialists in command and control rooms and control buildings promoting high quality, longevity designs that promote healthy 24/7 work environments.  Our typical control buildings consist of more than just a control room, our control suites are designed to allow for collaboration areas, administration offices, conference rooms, break rooms, and extended work areas.  All these elements combined make a functional, collaborative, and productive facility.

Main Control Building | Alberta, Canada

Blast-Resistant Design

Designed to reflect the regional culture, glass and steel were traded for wood and stone, resulting in a unique and comfortable Control Suite and Office/Production facility for a major bitumen extraction facility.

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Central Control Building | South Louisiana

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Central Control Building | California, USA

Consolidation of several smaller control structures into one facility.  SLA is designing a new Production Campus around the new Control Center, with several new facilities planned.

Refinery Operations Center | Washington, USA

Blast-Resistant Design

Designed to facilitate collaboration between field and board operators, the ROC offers an effective platform to operate the plant while maintaining a safe and vigilant control environment.  This facility was designed to allow a Analytical Laboratory addition.

Gulf Coast Control Center | Beaumont, Texas

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Nine feet of storm surge decimated this control center during hurricane Ike’s rampage. The building was completely flooded: SLA redesigned the interior in three days, and received approval in another 3, and the reconstruction effort was completed in twelve weeks, well ahead of the client’s expected outcome, but on the nose with their needs. See accompanying Case Study.

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Multi-Purpose/Operations Building | Northern Alberta, Canada

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Modularity benefits of pre-manufactured structural elements, and a building sized to allow for future expansion, this design separates interior office staff from exterior plant personnel to help minimize cleaning/reduce wear and tear on the structure.  Access for exterior persons is controlled through the design configuration, yet allows office/plant personnel to collaborate as required to optimize the plant functions.  In design 2009-10.

Gas Control Building & Utility Control Building | South Africa

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A pair of control structures sharing many design commonalities were designed for a synthetic fuel facility.  The modularity of the design allows for an economy of scale approach to the overall project, which will entail replication of the two facilities on the opposite side of the. The structures embody the culture, materials, textures, and colors of the region.