CIVIC & GOVERNMENT
The Stanley Ambulance Service in Stanley, North Dakota, underwent significant renovations to enhance its facilities and better serve the community. The original facility was a 3,024 square foot facility and featured a two-bay garage for ambulance parking and maintenance as well as support space for around the clock staff, kitchen, locker room facilities, and mechanical spaces. The improvements included an interior remodel and an expansion project.
The remodel was undertaken to update the support side of the facility allowing for additional sleeping rooms to better meet staff needs, and it involved 1,775 square feet of the original facility. This phase of the project also completed prep work to help facilitate the expansion project. This remodel also allowed the addition of an emergency generator.
The primary focus of the expansion project was to extend the ambulance bay adjacent to the emergency room, accommodating the larger dimensions of modern ambulances, and to add meeting and training spaces. This addition added 2,363 square feet to the original ambulance service building.
These improvements are part of a broader initiative to upgrade healthcare infrastructure in the area, ensuring that emergency medical services can operate more efficiently and effectively. The expansion of the ambulance bay is expected to facilitate quicker response times and improved patient care during emergencies.
stanley ambulance
CITY OF STANLEY
STANLEY, NORTH DAKOTA
In 2017 the Tioga Ambulance facility was designed and constructed. It is a 10,100-square foot precast concrete building designed to enhance emergency medical services in the community of Tioga, North Dakota and surrounding area.
Situated directly across from the existing fire hall, the facility includes a training room, serving kitchen, and offices. It features a drive-through wash bay and oversized ambulance bays to accommodate larger vehicles, such as water trucks and multiple disaster pods. Equipped with a backup generator and energy-efficient LED lighting, the building also has heated floors in the bays for quick drying and temperature recovery.
The exterior showcases colored and textured precast walls with brick veneer accents, including arches and keystones, reflecting traditional fire hall designs with a modern streamlined look. Clerestory windows provide ample daylight in the ambulance bays, and the precast concrete T roof system adds a durable fire and storm protective covering to the facility as well. The appealing building façade was created with low maintenance finishes and has been received positively by the community and leaders involved in the project.
This project was the ACEC North Dakota 2017 Building/Technology Systems Award recipient.
TIOGA AMBULANCE
CITY OF TIOGA
TIOGA, NORTH DAKOTA
The City of Minot's Recycling Transfer Station serves as a pivotal facility in the city's waste management and recycling efforts. The facility is designed to efficiently handle and process recyclable materials collected from the city's curbside recycling program. Once collected, these materials are transported to the transfer station, where they are prepared for further transport to sorting facilities.
The facility is a 12,500 square foot pre-engineered metal building which was designed as a dedicated space for the recycling program in Minot, ND. The facility includes offices, meeting room, and locker rooms spaces, storage and a central household hazardous waste collection point for the residents of Minot. With Minot’s remote geographical location, a transfer station that could be a central collection and pre-processing point was critical to the success of the program as it would require preparing recycling materials for transport to a location another state for full processing. This facility includes a 7,500 square foot 10-inch thick high-impact, abrasion-resistant tipping floor with a silica fume additive for durability and poured concrete push walls for ease of handling material as it’s moved to a conveyor and compactor for loading onto haul trailers. The design of this new build looked at multiple items tied to the needs of the needs for recycling transfer stations, including material handling, loading docks, traffic flow management and environmental controls.
These design elements aim to streamline the processing of recyclables, reduce environmental impact, and promote sustainability within the community.
RECYCLING TRANSFER STATION
CITY OF MINOT
MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA
Located on the plains of northwest North Dakota and serving both Divide and Williams counties, the Wildrose Fire Hall provides emergency services for a large rural area. In order to maintain and improve their service standards, there was a need for an addition to help the community. To provide for this, we designed a pre-engineered metal building to expand their existing footprint by 5,000 square feet and clad the addition with metal siding matching the existing fire hall for a seamless transition. The expansion goal was to enhance the capabilities of the fire department, which comprises 35 members, including 8 trained Emergency Medical Responders, (EMRs) and 9 trained in vehicle extrication.
The addition to the Wildrose Fire Hall now houses 5 fire truck bays, a large training room, vehicle wash bay, ancillary storage and mechanical spaces, kitchenette & 2 offices. The fifth bay has a second overhead door, allowing drive-thru access. When working with the city on design there were suggestions, we could make in helping provide a more durable structure which saved the city money, and the 9,800 square foot building was constructed using a steel frame design. The building is finished in contrasting red & white metal panels & trim. The building was built in separate phases, the shell & interior, this allowed for financing options for the city.
The new space will allow WFPD to continue to serve the residents of Williams and Divide Counties with the Highest level of professionalism without compromising on functionality or space.