City of Lubbock
- government
- Lubbock, Texas
Project Scope
18.l7 acres
Construction Type
New
Project Components
Fire administration, fire marshal, communication center, and multiple classroom training environments including a tiered classroom, fire training burn building, a six-story fire training tower, fire training props, training area, apparatus maintenance facility, a multi-company fire station, drives, parking, streets for a training field, a communications center and multiple classroom training environments, and a retention pond to collect storm water and run-off water from the training exercises.
The Fire Training and Administration Complex consists of four buildings, including site development for drives, parking, streets for a training field, and a retention pond to collect storm water and run-off water from the training exercises. The four buildings include an Administration Building, a Vehicle Maintenance/Storage Building, a Training Tower and a Burn House.
The Fire Department Complex sits on an 18.7-acre site near the Lubbock International Airport. The site was designed with the two most prominent buildings — the Administration Building and the Fire Training Tower — set on an axis that runs to the northwest at a 45-degree angle from the property's southeast corner. This axis extends from the Administration Building's main entrance to the Training Tower to the northwest.
A large space was left between the secured employee parking on the north side of the Administration Building and the Training Tower to provide for ceremonial events. A semi-circular driveway and public parking area wrap around the Administration Building on the south side and connect to Martin Luther King Boulevard and Ursuline Street. The Maintenance Building was located on the west side of the site, away from the view of the main thoroughfare, sharing the common driveway used to access the Training Field, secured employee parking, and return traffic to Fire Station No. 2.
Due to its length, the Maintenance Building helps provide a welcomed windbreak. The Burn House is directly north of the Training Tower. The training field occupies the north half of the site and was laid out with streets of varying widths from commercial to alleyways. The street system in the training field was graded to drain all water accumulation to the retention pond for possible reuse in training exercises.
Other features of the facility include a communications center and multiple classroom training environments including a tiered classroom.
Project Leadership
Joe Rapier, PE
John Hamilton, PE