JE Dunn Houston Emergency Service Facilities

EMERGENCY SERVICE FACILITIES

Project Facts Cost: $4 million# Architect: Martinez Architects Owner: ESD No.29 Start: December 2018 Completion: March 2020

Harris County ESD 29 Champions Fire Station 12 Houston, TX 11,200 SF, three-bay Fire Station situated on approximately 4.6 acres. The facility consists of 2,817 SF of living space and 6,488 SF bay and storage area. The facility is a Pre-Engineered Metal Building on pier and beam concrete foundation. The exterior consists of PEMB metal panels with brick veneer and a standing seam metal roof.

Not only will the new facility help decrease response times and increase coverage for the surrounding community, it features a 30-foot Drill Tower allowing fire fighters to train at their own facility.

Challenges: The building is located approximately 400 feet towards the back of the property. To mitigate the extremely muddy site conditions, we had to pour the driveway and other paving early, just to gain adequate access to the building site.

Project Facts Cost: $25.6 million Architect: Martinez Architects

Harris County Emergency Services District No. 9 Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department Stations 2, 7, 9 & 13

Owner: Harris County ESD No.9 Start: January 2017

Cypress, TX

Completion: August 2018 Awards: • Silver Award-Station Design Awards Firehouse Magazine • Best Regional Projects, ENR Magazine

Due to the tremendous growth seen in the Cypress-Fairbank area, Harris County ESD 9 contracted with JE Dunn construction to complete four, ground up, fire stations across the area to minimize response times. Each station averages roughly 17,000 SF with living quarters that accommodate roughly 16 fire fighters and/or EMS staff per shift, including private captain and officer quarters.

The living quarters also include a fully equipped work-out area and training/ meeting room to accommodate local elections, HCESD 9/Cy-Fair VFD commissioner’s meetings and additional training for the fire fighters. In addition to the great amenities provided to the fire fighters, many lighting fixtures are LED based for longer life, less maintenance and more energy efficient to help save resources regarding the VFD’s maintenance crew.

Project Facts Cost: $20 million Architect: Wilson Estes Police Architects Owner: City of Pearland Start: November 2008 Completion: April 2010

City of Pearland Public Safety Building Pearland, TX JE Dunn Construction, in conjunction with Wilson Estes Police Architects, recently completed the Pearland Public Safety Building. The 79,000 SF, 2-story design-build project is a multi-purpose building consisting of a 29-bed jail, two courtrooms and houses the offices the Police Department, 911 Dispatch, Utility Billing and the County Tax Office.

The City of Pearland required that the project be LEED Certified, however the project team was able to exceed the City’s mandate and the project was able to earn LEED Silver certification. During construction, the waste service company sorted all recyclable material, which totaled 2,893 cy of trash, totaling over 85% of all trash used during construction. In addition to recyclable debris from construction, a total of 39% material used on the project consisted of recyclable material.

The completion of the Pearland Public Safety is a very important building for the City of Pearland. Not only does the building house five different City and County operations, it also is a hardened building that will withstand 145 MPH wind gust and has 95% of the building on emergency power. In the event of a hurricane this building will be used as a command center for the City.

Project Facts

City of Houston Fire Station 84 Houston, TX

Cost: $6.8 million Architect: BRW Architects Owner: City of Houston Start: December 2013 Completion: December 2014 Awards: • Station Design Award, Firehouse Magazine • APEX Gold-Municipal, AGC Houston

New, ground-up construction of a structural steel 15,500-square-foot fire station, with membrane roofing and CMU. The exterior façade is face brick and metal panels, while the interior features polished concrete floors and structural laminated wood decking in the kitchen/dining areas.

The construction scope also included a fuel station, detention pond, and the installation of a natural gas generator.

The facility includes five bays, living quarters, a modern kitchen and lounge, an indoor/outdoor fitness area, and locker rooms and bathrooms. The living area features glazing and a series of clearstory windows to provide natural light.

Lighting fixtures for the new facility are LED-based for longer life, less maintenance, and more energy efficiency. For heating and cooling, geothermal system was installed and by rejecting heat into the earth in the summer and extracting heat in the winter - it is projected to cut energy costs in half. The station is LEED Silver.