Now celebrating its 11th anniversary, the prestigious Station Design Awards competition recognizes architects/construction firms and fire departments for their innovations and achievements in fire station design and construction.
Every Station Design entry that will be received will appear in our November 2024 issue and online and be seen by more than 474,000 chiefs, officers, manufacturers and fire service personnel.
“It’s common for fire department personnel who attend the Station Design Conference to bring a copy of the November issue of Firehouse with them, having flagged specific pages of the Station Design Awards section as a means to remind them of station design aspects that caught their attention, so as to ask questions of architects in relation to their own facility projects,” Rich Dzierwa, managing editor, Firehouse Magazine, says. “Furthermore, we have been told myriad times that project managers use the awards entries to contact fire chiefs for recommendations on architectural firms.”
The 2024 Station Design Awards program is a prime opportunity to be acknowledged as a leader in fire station design and to receive national recognition for your firm and your client.
Projects must have been completed since Jan. 1, 2020.
Judges request that only completed projects be submitted, because renderings are subject to change during approvals, budget adjustments and final construction.
The awards will recognize superlative work in seven categories:
- Career Stations 1: Facilities that are 15,000 sq. ft. or larger and that staff full-time fire and emergency personnel.
- Career Stations 2: Facilities that are less than 15,000 sq. ft. that staff full-time fire and emergency personnel.
- Satellite Stations: Additional stations that are distinct from headquarters or main offices.
- Volunteer/Combination Stations: Facilities that are staffed by volunteer or a combination of nonpaid and paid fire and emergency personnel.
- Joint Facilities: Fire and emergency response facilities that are shared with other agencies or organizations, such as police, training divisions or local government offices.
- Station Renovations: Facilities that were redesigned, re-purposed or upgraded.
- Training Facilities: Fire and emergency response facilities that are designated for training.
Entry Form Due July 12, 2024
A completed, signed entry form for each portfolio must be received prior to judging.
This year's application will allow you to create an online account through our award platform, OpenWater, where you can save your application information in one place. You can start your application one day and go back on another and add or edit the information until you are ready to submit. When ready, you can complete the transaction online through the e-commerce system.
All application questions now are avaiable in the single form, so you can pull together all of the information for the portfolio prior to submitting the application.
We hope that you find the new online process more streamlined.
If your project is selected for a citation or as an outstanding building, the materials that were submitted in your portfolio will be used to create your project’s page(s) in the magazine. Portfolios should be of a quality suitable for judging and publication. Firehouse reserves the right to reject portfolios that are deemed unacceptable for publication.
Click here to fill out the entry form.
