Item No. 8d_ supp
Meeting Date: October 8, 2019
Interim Westside Fire Station
Budget Request

Interim Westside Fire Station Location
Fire Station Location
NORTH
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Existing Facility                New Improvements

Paccar                                                                         Paccar
Building                                                                               Building

Single fire truck covered                                           New full service garage
by tent structure                                                  house two firetrucks

Crew Quarters in small rooms for                           5 Firefighters in new full
3 firefighters inside Hangar                                   service crew quarters building

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Appendix


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Fire Station Site

Fire Station
Crew Quarters

Fire Station
Truck Shelter




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Design Build Option Developed
Pros:
Flexibility in design and construction allows for budget efficiency
Fire Fighters integrated in development of requirements and proposer evaluations
Combined single structure
Ability to refine scope to budget
Early understanding of marketplace
Cons:
Lengthened schedule  Fire Fighters agree w/timing: "Build it right the first time."
Less ability to change design  Fire Fighters involved in basis of design requirements from the start
No plan for re-usability
Marketplace may tell us something different than we want

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Early Actions             Improvement
Broadened team to involve airfield team, aviation
Assigned terminal oriented team
planning, procurement, and fire team
Focused on initial urgency to house firefighters in          Took time to understand all constraints, then designed
remodeled rooms                                   for all aspect for long term
Latest competitive process allowed consideration of all
Selected modular design
constraints, cost, and schedule to meet firefighter needs
End users at arms length                                  Firefighter end users deeply involved with all aspects
Once all long term design issues identified, then cost and
Forecasted cost and schedule too early
schedules became reliable
All our improvement lessons are available, we share with
Small team
all teams

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