ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, December 6, 1995 TAG: 9512060060
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JEFF STURGEON STAFF WRITER
THE ARCHITECTURAL and engineering firm will design and direct the first phase of a two-way radio system's installation in Florida.
Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern Inc. said Tuesday that a recently won Florida communication contract represents the second-largest job the company has ever tackled.
Hayes, Seay will design and direct the installation of the initial phase of a two-way radio system for Florida's marine and highway patrol officers, correction officials, alcohol control agents and other state police officers.
Work will begin next week in east central Florida, where the new gear will be installed first, aside from a small area hooked up for system testing.
Vern Danielsen, deputy project manager at Hayes, Seay, said Florida will pay the Roanoke-based architectural and engineering firm several million dollars out of $40 million for construction of phase one; he wouldn't be more specific.
The job is the 48-year-old company's largest undertaking, by construction contract size, after work related to a $120 million Pentagon renovation, he said.
The firm also is in line to oversee three future project phases of the radio system to take it statewide, Danielsen said.
As a result of the new work, the company will hire several employees at its Lynchburg office and at a new office in Tallahassee, where the project will be coordinated.
When finished, the system will link more than 7,000 radios carried on officers' belts, installed in vehicles or at dispatch centers. It will encode conversations for secrecy better than the current system does, Danielsen said.
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