The Niskayuna Consolidated Fire District #1 was outgrowing its existing facility and needed to expand in order to combine a unified space to serve three distinct end user groups, the paid fire department, volunteer fire department and fire district administration.
Pacheco Ross Architects (PRA) designed the project within a tight budget while still including all systems for a modern Fire/EMS facility. PRA created detailed hard and soft cost budgets and bond repayment calculations for taxpayer implications and co-led the project team for a public support campaign which resulted in a successful bond vote. PRA utilized materials, shapes, roof planes, and massing to respect the existing facility and value engineered the building to include durable materials and essential spaces that the public could support without compromising programmatic need.
The final design is a 19,894 square foot facility comprised of apparatus bays, a day room, duty crew offices, bunk rooms, meeting/training rooms, District offices, an exercise room, kitchen, volunteer room, and volunteer meeting room.
