Mead & Hunt
- aviation
- Dallas, Texas
Construction Type
New
Project Delivery Method
Study-Report-Planning
Multiple factors played a hand in the Dallas Love Field Department of Aviation’s (DoA) decision to program a new fire station and collocate their airside operations division into a single facility.
The ability of a fire department to quickly respond to an airside incident is crucial. The airport's crossfield taxiway reconfiguration by the Department of Aviation has caused the existing Dallas Fire Station 21 to no longer meet the Federal Aviation Administration’s response requirements for aircraft emergencies. Coupled with the existing fire station 21’s building and systems having performed past their useful life beyond reasonable repair levels, Dallas Fire-Rescue needed a replacement station for the airport.
Managing the Aircraft Operations Area, the airport’s Airside Operations Division oversees aircraft movements, foreign object debris detection, wildlife management, handling weather implications, and incident responses, along with a host of other duties. Currently, the airport maintenance facility is far too overcrowded to support its mission-critical functions at the airport.
Mead & Hunt, the prime engineer, chose Parkhill as a sub to provide programming consulting for the new fire station for Dallas Love Field’s Operations Division into a single facility at the airport for the Department of Aviation. The project helped define how much of the spaces could be eligible for Airport Improvement Program funding.
The collaborative approach to this facility programming brought multiple stakeholder groups to the table through input workshops confirming functions, relationships, adjacencies, and sizes of spaces needed for a modern, efficient and sustainable new facility that will perform for decades.
Project Leadership
- Bill Noonan, AIA, RAS
- Mark Haberer, PE, CM
- C. Chandler Cooke, AIA
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