RWA was selected to provide site planning, zoning and planning support, pre-design survey, civil engineering design, construction plan preparation, construction stake out, and construction administration services for a new Fire Station and Fire District main office campus facility. RWA also designed the two previous stations constructed by the District. Station 73 consisted of a 14,700 square foot main Fire Station and a 10,400 square foot Administrative Office. The Fire Station building houses firefighters and apparatus, and the Administration building includes offices for the Fire Chiefs, inspectors, and other administrative staff, along with meeting rooms for the public, and the fire district's Urban Search and Rescue Team trailer and equipment. Station 73 serves as the new District headquarters and nerve center of all operations and training for the District’s 103 square mile service area
This project was designed, permitted, and constructed in one phase on a previously undeveloped five acre, heavily wooded site. Design elements included site planning; water management design; underground utility and drainage infrastructure design; parking and vehicular use area design; off-site emergency vehicle egress; construction document preparation; permitting; and construction administration services. RWA also coordinated and designed an off-site shared water management pond on the adjacent single family residential development property that discharges into a nearby wetland in an overland flow configuration. The connection to the public sanitary sewer collection system was also designed as a shared facility through the same residential development. The site design features a significant visual and noise buffer that was incorporated into the perimeter buffers to minimize the impact to the adjacent residential development. This is a common feature between the two entities that had to be coordinated by RWA. RWA also provided coordination between the architect, environmental consultant, landscape architect, electrical / site lighting engineer, and the geotechnical engineering consultants.
Permits for this project were obtained from Collier County, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Environmental Protection Agency, and South Florida Water Management District.
Construction costs for this project were $7,515,000, including the building construction. Construction of this project commenced in December 2005 and was substantially completed in December 2006.
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