Town of Abingdon Police Department

Thompson & Litton, Inc (T&L) provided architectural and engineering design services for the Town of Abingdon on a new police station located on Main Street.

Project highlights include:

• The design objective was to create a facility that reflects the image of the old Abingdon Post Office and Federal Courthouse Building (demolished circa 1960), while meeting the current and growing needs of its town police department;
• The new facility provides both administrative and operational spaces for the police department and provides space for community meetings and police in-service training; and
• The design and construction of this project effectively harmonized the architectural styling of the former post office and courthouse building with modern construction materials and techniques.

T&L can take a picture and create a new building that is either identical or inspired by the photograph. The Town of Abingdon Police Station is an example of a project that was designed as reproductions/ reconstructions of historic building with contemporary adaptations.

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Radford Public Safety Building

Thompson & Litton, Inc (T&L) was selected by the City of Radford to provide Architectural/Engineering services for the Radford Public Safety Building. T&L’s services included space needs assessments, programming, full service design, bidding and construction contract administration for the renovation and adaptive reuse of the former box factory to accommodate police facilities and operations, as well as other municipal functions.

A sampling of project highlights include the following:

• The orginial structure was a block and brick structure previously utilized as the former Old Colony Box Factory;
• The project faciliated the consolidation of several Departments in one central location (Police, Dispatch Center, E-911 Center, and other municipal functions)
• E-911 Center provides many functions including for 911 operations, after-hours public interface, security control for the municipal facility, monitoring all building cameras, access control systems, and the secure perimeter traffic gate;
• The Dispatch Center was designed to accommodate a four console layout with the ability to expand to six consoles in the future.

  On a day-to-day basis, the space serves the City as their Council Chambers and many other functions including Police, City Management, Finance, Human Resources, Public Information, Engineering, Economic Development, Zoning, Building Offical, and others); however, in the event of a major emergency, the space transforms into a fully integrated and progressive EOC.

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Bristol Fire Station No. 5

Thompson & Litton (T&L) and Stewart Cooper Newell (SCN) Architects teamed together for the planning, design, bidding and construction of Fire Station #5 in Bristol, Tennessee. T&L provided architectural and engineering services with support from SCN, who led the programming and Architectural Schematic Design phase for the project.

The project was necessary due to growth at the intersection of 11W and I-81 (Exit 74), which primarily consists of the Pinnacle, a very large commercial development with over 70 stores and restaurants, and the presence of the Bristol Regional Medical Center.

A sampling of project features include the following:

• Fire Station #5 designed to blend in with the architecture of buildings located in the adjacent Pinnacle development;
• Manned by Professional Career Firefighters (no volunteers);
• 3 pull-through, double-loaded, apparatus bays (20’ x80’ ea);
• 100% Building Load Diesel Generator;
• 14×14 overhead section doors;
• Built-in bay and magna-grip exhaust system;
• Sleeping quarters include 3 double bunk rooms and 1 single bunk room with four lockers, desk, and TV in each room;
• Personnel have access to restrooms and showers;
• Exercise room with workout stations;
• Decontamination Room with laundry, extractor, & dryers
• EMS and secure medication storage room
• Compressor Room for SCBA & tool compressor

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