Emergency Training Facilities
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Lancaster County Emergency Training Facility - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA)
The development of new emergency training facilities was designed to integrate much needed county training facilities into one 18-acre complex. This includes the design of a training "campus" with new 30,000 sq.ft. administrative and classroom educational facilities, a police-weapons training range of 22,000 sq.ft. that contains a 100-yard indoor fire arms training building, a new county Haz-mat headquarters building, exterior fire training props and 8,000 sq.ft. fireman's training "Live Burn" Building, a high ladder drill tower and aerial water tower as well as a fireman's smoke training facility and general use emergency vehicle driver training course. It was all designed to support the necessary and intensive training now required of the counties' volunteer first responders and police forces.
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Monroe County Public Safety Center - Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (PA)
This project included development of new fire training and emergency management facilities. Across 18 acres of farmland, we designed a new two-story, 17,000 sq.ft. administrative building, a three-story and 8,000 sq.ft. burn building and fire simulation system utilizing three fire simulation burner units, classrooms and service areas, a drill tower, surface drill pits and emergency rescue training facilities as well as sewerage treatment and water reclamation. Facilities include state-of-the-art burn areas using computer controlled propane systems. A second phase provided for a 9,000 sq.ft. fit-out for the new 911 County Emergency Call System.
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State Fire Academy - Lewistown, Pennsylvania (PA)
THP was selected by the Department of General Services, State of Pennsylvania, to design new training facilities at the State Fire Academy. This included renovation of the older existing burn building structure as well as construction of a new residential two and one-half story burn building and a four-story commercial building. The burn building complex includes actual live fire training, ladder training areas, a sprinkler laboratory, urban search and rescue, chemical and toxic waste, accidental spills training grounds and special aerial training. There were also renovations of facilities for classroom training and provisions for new office areas. Funding required the project to be designed and constructed very quickly; bids were 15% under budget.
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