TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

What We Do

Division Overview

The Facilities Division provides a full range of facility management services to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) including facility planning, design, construction, maintenance, and environmental quality assurance and compliance. The Facilities Division Headquarters is located in Huntsville but has maintenance employees working at state owned and operated facilities throughout the state. Those employees provide long range and day-to-day maintenance as required to keep the facilities in proper working condition and support each component of each facility, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Maintenance of Facilities

The Maintenance Department maintains all TDCJ owned and operated facilities. A unit maintenance office is located on each correctional facility. Each office has a technical staff, which varies according to the mission and facility offender population. There are six (6) region maintenance offices supporting the unit maintenance offices. These regional offices have specialty crews performing construction projects, repairs and renovations. The asbestos team provides asbestos abatement services to the TDCJ. The headquarters staff is responsible for overseeing the entire facility maintenance and repair process for TDCJ.

Doing Business With Us

The customer departments identify and define a statement of need by submitting a Major Work Request, (MWR), to the Facilities Division. An initial review is conducted by Maintenance, Engineering, Program Administration, Project Administration and the Facilities Division Director to determine whether to proceed with the major work request or defer to prioritization.

Projects not requiring a design solution are accomplished by the maintenance department, or by a contractor with maintenance oversight. Projects requiring a design solution are accomplished either by in-house design staff or contracts with an Architect and Engineering firm, with in-house design oversight. In all cases, projects are overseen by engineering, project administration and/or maintenance from the time the statement of need is identified through the construction phase.

For all contractors or architect and engineering firms that would like additional information please refer to the Contracts & Procurement webpage.