Upper Dublin Firehouse, PA
New Fire Station
Estimated Completion: Autumn 2011
Total: 20,170 sq. ft.
Bay/Support: 10,470 sq. ft.
Administration: 1,066 sq. ft.
Living: 5,527 sq. ft.
Pacheco Ross Architects, PC
72 Voorheesville Ave.
PO Box 558
Voorheesville, NY 12186
Phone: 518-765-5105
Fax: 518-765-5107
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Projects
Town of DeWitt Multi-Purpose Facility
Fayetteville Fire Department
Great Barrington Fire Department
Horsham Battalion #2
Kent Island Volunteer Fire Department, Inc.
Monroe Township Fire District #3
Orangeburg Fire District
City of Poughkeepsie Public Safety Facility
River Oaks Fire and Rescue Station 23
Spencer Fire Department
Stillwater Fire District - Headquarters
Upper Dublin Firehouse
Challenges:
- Combine volunteer fire company and students into a single facility that requires public access for training, EOC and township offices
- Locate building in township campus, yet respect residential neighbors to the side and rear
- Create a modern state-of-the-art multi-use facility that can be expanded in the future
Accomplishments
- Maintained secure access for the public, created living spaces that respect and work with the various types of responders
- Invited neighbor input; developed setbacks, berms, fence and landscape buffet to respect neighbors' privacy
- Placed building and designed site features to allow additional double-deep bay. Public area on south planned to incorporate additional township uses. All infrastructure and systems will accommodate expansion.