The new Benicia Fire Station Headquarters was designed as a replacement of the older facility that had sat, mostly destroyed since the 1989 earthquake. Deciding that, with its prominent location next to a city park with an award-winning children’s play structure and the Benicia Fire Museum, it was time for an update.
The new facility includes 6,700 square feet of apparatus bay and support operational spaces, 5,900 square feet of administrative, training, and exercise spaces, and 3,400 square feet of fire station living quarters.
Our role in the project consisted of Strategic Planning, Design and Planning and Construction. It was a struggle integrating the existing buildings with the new living and administrative spaces. But, in the end, our efforts were rewarded when the City of Benicia had its beautiful new fire station headquarters and the project received an AIA Redwood Empire Chapter Design Awards, Merit Award.
Client: City of Benicia
Location: Benicia, CA
Type: Civil/Public Safety
