Crooked River Fire Station

Project: Crooked River Ranch Fire Station

Location: Terrebonne, Oregon

Architect: Ivars Lazdins

              3004 SW Bennington Drive

              Portland, Oregon 97205

General Contractor: NA

Square footage: approx. 9000 sq. ft.

Status: Completed 2008

My second project and it was all wood construction with the exception of a CMU wall at the end of the apparatus bay. The apparatus bay was nearly 80 feet wide and used press plate trusses to frame the roof. We broke up the span by a line of glulam beams and some columns to break up the spans. Trying to use press plate trusses with 80 foot spans can be difficult to erect. As can be seen in the picture, solar panels were added to the roof and according to the architect, this worked out really well.

The lateral system was mostly plywood shear walls with the exception of CMU in the front and back of the apparatus room. As mentioned, the exterior end wall was also CMU up to the plate line.

We had to work through the detail of the seismic joint between the main building and the apparatus building. The maximum gap ended up being 3 1/2 inches at the roof peak. They also installed heating coils in the floor slab which was heated by the solar panels above.