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Building Design and Construction

Appellate Court Judge Chamber

Notice: Project Completed

50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850

Project Team

Montgomery County Government
Department of General Services

Division of Building Design & Construction

Division Chief: Hamid Omidvar, AIA
Hamid.Omidvar@montgomerycountymd.gov
Section Chief: Randall Hawkins
Project Manager: Bahar Habibi

Architect / Engineer

NOA Architects.

Contractor

CDCI Inc.,

For operations inquiries. Please contact.

Montgomery County Department of General Services
240-777-6126

Status
Description

Current Phase: Completed

Design Completed, Construction Completed on 12/2023.

A judge's chamber for a new Court of Special Appeals judge will be constructed at the Montgomery County Circuit Court. In addition, a server room will be reconfigured for use for Circuit Court staff that are displaced by construction of the new chamber. The Maryland Court system consists of three levels of courts that include the appellate, circuit court, and district courts. Montgomery County is in the 7th appellate circuit and has one Court of Appeals judge and now three Court of Special Appeals judges that reside at the courthouse. This will be the first time that a fourth appellate judge will be housed in Montgomery County.

When the Circuit Court recently replaced its case management system, that left space in a former server room available to accommodate staff that will be displaced by the new judge's chamber. In order to make the server room usable for office use, the current Halon fire suppression system will need to be replaced with a sprinkler system. The Halon system releases a gas that suffocates fires but could be dangerous to employees if they were to work in that environment.