Southern New Mexico serves as a gateway for tractor-trailers entering North-America. The existing Port of Entry was an antiquated facility unable to handle the high volume of trucks. Traffic was consistently overflowing on to I-10 causing horrible safety concerns.

Wilson & Company designed a state-of-the-art facility to weigh, inspect and permit trucks. The facility consists of a 10,500 square foot building that houses all administrative offices, the video monitoring control areas, a training room, bathrooms, lockers and two fully enclosed inspection bays for safety and enforcement inspection.

A primary focus of the program was to design the building to provide maximum energy efficiency throughout. Large open areas like the inspection bay can be a source of great heat gain or loss during the year. The saw- tooth roof over the inspection bays was designed to do several things to save energy. By bringing daylight into the space through a series of specially designed louvers that diffuse the light and reduces the glare, the use of electric lighting is reduced year round. These same louvers admit sunlight during the cool months to aid in heating and shade the same sunlight during the warmer months to aid in cooling. A painted steel sunshade surrounds the outside of the circular control room, which was designed to reduce the glare and heat of the low southwestern sun.

Materials throughout were chosen for their durability and low maintenance features. The success of the design can be measured in the fact that the entire facility can be operated by 2 - 3 people.