Introduction
This new San Francisco fireboat station is designed for sustainability and resilience. The building itself is actually a barge that floats on the water, supporting marine fire station duties. It will rise and fall with the tides and climate-related sea-level changes, offering easy boat access to first responders.
The scope of VEC's involvement for this project included lighting, telecom, and fuel/oil/electric work for the client, McMillan Electric.
A dock, wet gear, and a scuba room can be found on the first floor, along with parking space for fire engines.
The second floor is the living space, with dorms and locker rooms, three separate smaller rooms for officers, a library, kitchen, pantry, and a day room, as well as an observation deck facing the water.
VEC provided Trimble drawings and shop drawings for the barge (underground), first floor, second floor, and roof levels. Overhead supports, conduit routing, reflected ceiling plans, and equipment layouts were among the shop drawings we supplied.
Coordinating the overhead and elevations with the drive areas was one of the tougher challenges, since the heavy-duty doors and fire engines required so much space.
