Location: Lebanon, Oregon
Architect: Peck Smiley Ettlin Architects
4412 SW Corbett
Portland, Oregon 97239
General Contractor: NA
Square footage: 9,700 sq. ft.
Status: Completed 2008.
This fire station had two different lives. The first life it lived was as a rigid frame metal building with wood modifications. The larger spanning rigid frames are over the apparatus bay and the smaller frames in the kitchen/dorm/meeting area. Shed frames cover the utility areas. The down side with this design was the specialty framing around the meeting room. Having worked for a metal building company years ago, there is major complications when modifications are made to the standard structure.
Once the contractor was awarded the project, they suggested making the station out of wood framing. There was a major cost savings with this new design. Therefore we revised our calculations to accommodate the changes. We had 80 foot long press plate trusses spanning over the apparatus bay and living area. In hind sight, 80 foot long trusses tend to be more difficult to erect, but after consulting the contractor, we proceeded forward with these trusses.
Overall, this was a straight forward wood construction building.
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