Neighborhood Fire Station Sustainability Program

Paladino and Company was selected by Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development to support the Fire Station Levy program through development of a workshop and a charrette focused on the generation of a sustainable design standard for neighborhood fire stations. The standards would be applied to multiple fire station redesigns, retrofits and upgrades planned by the City as part of an approved levy. 

The workshop highlighted LEED® rated fire facilities throughout the country and focused on case studies, costs/benefits, challenges and lessons learned. Attendees of the workshop included city project managers, fire department personnel, architects, engineers, and other design professionals. Following the workshop, Paladino facilitated a full day charrette that generated ideas to create a standardized performance criteria for City fire station buildings that provide long term benefits to the City, while meeting Seattle Fire Department’s operational and performance goals.

The key outcome was the sustainable design guidelines for fire stations, which are provided to all design teams and used as a guiding document to define preferred sustainable design strategies.