ARCHITECTURE PROJECT PROFILE

Island Station, City of Cohoes Fire Department
Cohoes, New York

Currently Under Construction

The City of Cohoes had shut down the previous sub-station and needed a new facility to serve the residents located on Simmons island and the eastern portion of the City.  To accomplish this, C.T. Male’s team of Architects and Engineers provided the design for a new two-bay sub-station utilizing a pre-engineered timber column structure as manufactured by Morton Buildings, Inc. 

The construction of the new facility, which is being constructed as an addition to an existing one-story frame structure, which the City purchased for use as an administrative office and bunk room for the paid firefighters, has been designed to maximize the life-cycle cost performance of the building.  It includes economical features, such as a kynar-coated hi-rib steel siding panels, fiberglass thermal-glazed windows, masonry veneer wainscot to protect the perimeter, and an acoustical hi-rib interior liner at the apparatus bay with full blanket fiberglass insulation at the wall and ceiling cavities, to exceed the minimum energy code performance requirements by almost 20 percent.

The new Island Station will offer two modern and efficient apparatus bays for the Fire Departments equipment and personnel, as well as providing an effective base of operations to serve and protect the public for the next fifty years by readily accommodating newer fire apparatus sizes, changing types of services, along with current OSHA & NFPA rules and regulations regarding firefighter health and safety.