The project’s intent is to provide guidance for the floor plan design and design brief standards including finishes, mechanical, electrical and site related requirements of future new Fire Station facilities. The report identifies 4 schemes of final layouts of proposed floor plan designs for future facilities. These layouts are intended to be included in future fire station RFP’s to be used as a basis for design. Initially the consultant team reviewed the base program provided in the RFP and visited two precedent stations to gather information on current fire station programmatic requirements and standards.

The consultant team also reviewed the City’s Corporate Green Building Standard as a guide to propose sustainability standards and design approaches in the new fire stations. The City’s Facility Accessibility Standards (FADS) were used as a guide to inform accessibility requirements in the proposed design. The developed program and standards were presented to the steering committee and a select user group representing MFES for feedback. Based on the feedback a final program was developed that guided the development of the floor plan designs and engineering briefs.