The new facility is located on a 10-acre parcel in downtown Los Angeles adjacent to a fire house, and is seismically base-isolated, with a steel-frame 84,000 square foot area. The EOC portion of the facility occupies approximately 20,000 net square-feet which includes a 7,500 square-foot Main Coordination Room, 1,500 square-foot media center, 1,000 square-foot Management Section Room, 900 square-foot Training Center, four 400 square-foot breakout meeting rooms, as well as a kitchen, dining area, locker rooms, and storage areas.

The new EOC also includes an array of inter-operable communications systems including an EOC local and wide area information management network, City and County-wide radio systems; primary, back-up and satellite telephone systems; fully integrated audio-video display systems; videoconferencing facilities; connection to external systems including LAPD and LAFD airborne video units; LA DOT ATSAC, NOAA weather information, Caltech seismic event information, the LA County EMIS network, the State of California’s Operational Area Satellite Information System and Response Information Management System, and connectivity to the County’s Terrorism Early Warning and the federal Department of Homeland Security. The design also includes emergency back-up generators, a centralized uninterrupted power source (UPS), reserve water storage tanks, redundant heating/ventilation/air conditioning systems and reserve sewage storage tanks for full resiliency.