Description |
This project
involved working with a Tennessee municipality (City of Spring Hill) to
design a new fire station to serve the northern portion of the city. This is
a joint venture design project with Highers, Koonce, & Associates. Our
involvement included the design or all elements except the civil. The
General Contractor was CCM of Nashville, Tennessee. This project is
scheduled to begin construction in June, 2002 with a completion date of
December, 2002.
This project consists of approximately 7,650
square feet. It contains 2 offices, a combination day room and dining room,
full kitchen, 3 sleeping quarters for 3 individuals each, individual full
height lockers, laundry with residential and commercial equipment, 2
drive-thru apparatus room bays designed for a hook and ladder truck, air
compressor room, and hose drying racks.
The construction consists of brick veneer on
load bearing concrete block walls in the apparatus room and load bearing
wood stud walls in the rest of the facility. The hipped roofs are asphalt
shingles on pre-engineered wood trusses. The apparatus room doors are fully
glazed aluminum sectional doors. The windows are vinyl-clad wood casement
windows.
Heating and cooling for the building are
provided by a single package mechanical unit. The building is wired for
computers, radios and radio towers, and a phone system. The building’s
electrical design includes an emergency panel powered by a natural gas
generator in times of power outage. The emergency panel powers the entire
building so the facility can operates as normal in a power outage.
This building is situated in a residential
subdivision, therefore the architectural elements are designed to help the
facility blend in with the residential houses but still maintain a fire
station appearance. |
