Description

This fire station is a five-bay drive-through building that replaces a facility of approximately 50 years in age. Here we bring a new level of health and safety standards for Onset’s firefighters by preparing a station with state-of-the-art decontamination capacities that separate the facility into Hot Zones for equipment coming back from a fire, transitional Warm Zones where decontamination takes place, and Cold Zones that receive decontaminated equipment.

A combined training and eating area are only one of the built-in efficiencies that allowed us to keep construction and operational costs down and save the town money in the long run. The original architect told the town that the fire station would cost over $10 million to build, but the town had only $6.4m in funding. We delivered it on schedule and on budget for $6.2 million. This is one of many cost-saving fire station projects our practice has designed, and we continue to use careful design and bidding strategies to bring in these facilities on or below budget.