This facility was a Career 2 Notable selection in Firehouse's 2020 Station Design Awards. Find the full list of winners here.
The fire station's design and construction were motivated by the need to improve the emergency services to the east side of Bluffdale City. Before the development of this station, the east side of the city was challenging to serve because of a division by a railroad corridor with cross access limitations.
The station features housing and support for a six-person crew, including single-user showers and toilets, a kitchen, a dining room, a physical training room and various support spaces. The station also includes a three-bay, double-deep apparatus floor, a community policing office, a combined community and training room, and EMS and storage. With this station's shared space environment, the design team focused on ensuring that the teams functioned separately and cohesively. As the station's design developed, the architect assisted Bluffdale City with public outreach sessions to build consensus with the surrounding community, because the facility is within single-family-residential developments. This milestone was critical to ensure that the station design complemented adjacent residential units while expressing strength in the delivery of public safety services.
To maintain a healthy environment for staff, finish material selections include low or no VOCs, natural daylighting is maximized and rooftop exhaust fans in conjunction with suspended air filtration units are utilized to maintain air movement within the apparatus bay areas to mitigate air pollutants.
Through strong commitment from and leadership by Bluffdale City, a sustainable facility was fully realized with Fire Station No. 92. The station provides a roof-mounted photovoltaic system that supplies approximately 50 percent of the station's power use and a high-efficiency HVAC system that utilizes geothermal heat exchange. In addition to efficient system design, the station includes Energy Star-rated appliances, low-impact landscaping strategies to limit water use and high-performance envelope design to maximize thermal comfort in conjunction with geothermal technologies.
Architect/Firm Name: JRCA Architects.
