EMR designed a 3,250 square foot addition to Eglin’s Fire Station #1 apparatus bays. Original size of the fire truck 5 stall garage was 25 ft long by 75 feet wide with five 12’x12’door openings. We designed and executed an addition that created a 5 stall garage 52’ x 100’ with five 15’ wide by 17’ high doors. Demolition of the roof, 2 main supporting walls, storage room and a training room was necessary to complete our design. The Fire Station wall extension consisted of split-face integral color CMU 12” blocks with custom cast-in-place columns and end wall for the new overhead doors. The larger stall doors were required to accommodate the multi-million dollar fire trucks that are designed to attend to flight line/air craft fires and emergencies and are larger than street regulations. The custom cast-in-place end wall and columns were over 20 ft high, which required the concrete tradesmen to use a specialized walkway system to facilitate tying off. Constructing the split-faced CMU wall required great skill and care because one side of the block is rough and uneven. The CMU wall was filled solid with concrete to prevent movement from a hurricane. A concrete pump truck was used to fill the 20-ft high concrete column forms and the CMU wall. The picture at the top left of this page features the concrete pump truck and the elaborate custom concrete forms. The picture at the top right features the precise coordination by EMR with the concrete tradesmen and the steel tradesmen installing the roof behind.
An entry canopy was added to the front of the Fire Station, which was constructed with split-face CMU for continuity of design. A custom design steel truss system was manufactured for the canopy and painted to match adjacent trim. A standing seam metal roof was attached to the custom canopy. A 90-ft tall utility pole had to be removed to place the canopy in the desired place; a roof access ladder also had to be relocated. In the apparatus bay, the lighting was upgraded to high efficiency lighting; the fire alarm system was updated and extended. A wide variety of heavy equipment was utilized throughout the project, including as many as 7 scissor lifts on property at any given time. Blastproof clerestory windows were installed at the same height as the existing windows to connect the new addition to the existing building. The steel beam roof was painted concurrently while other work was being performed by using dry fall paint. Paint flakes were then simply swept up with no unwanted paint on adjacent surfaces. EMR renovated several other spaces within the Fire Station per the same contract, including a new training room area and a laundry room
EMR installed a highly sophisticated ambient air exhaust extraction system, which created challenges in the structural portion of the design and construction. The system required four 6’x6’ by 10’ tall roof exhaust fans to be placed in the bays with two 4’x8’ and two 9’x8’wall louvers; the 4’x8’ louvers were set at a height to accommodate 6-ft tall lockers placed against that wall. An advanced system of sensors was installed to control the integrated louvers and fans as the low levels of toxic fumes enter the area. The picture featured below is a picture of the interior completed Fire Station with all of the multi-million dollar fire trucks stored inside!

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