T&L provided full design and engineering services to Montgomery County for a new fire station in Riner, Virginia. The site is located on Virginia Route 8 on approximately 45 acres. The 19,148 GSF facility includes six (6) double-loaded apparatus bays and an administration area, including offices, kitchen, meeting rooms, laundry room, day room, turn-out gear room, entrance/lobby, mechanical/electrical support spaces and toilets. T&L’s scope of work included surveying, geotechnical exploration, civil engineering, architecture, structural engineering, mechanical/HVAC engineering, plumbing engineering, fire protection engineering, electrical engineering, communications system engineering, landscape architecture and interior design. The design was developed in accordance with the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Construction and Professional Services Manual (CPSM).
The building is a pre-engineered metal structure on shallow spread footings with masonry walls and a standing seam metal roof. The apparatus bays were designed to incorporate overhead Stokes basket training capability, and also include a vehicle exhaust system. The facility is heated by liquid propane supplied by two (2) external storage tanks and conditioned with six (6) direct expansion (DX) air handling units (AHUs). Storage space is including on a partial second level beside the AHUs area. Exterior vehicular circulation is provided via heavy duty asphalt and concrete roadways that encircle the facility. Extensive coordination with VDOT was required to locate access off of Route 8 to the site/facility.
