The City of Medicine Hat commissioned the replacement of the original Fire Hall No. 1 located in the north side of the Saskatchewan River with a new $8.25 million facility which opened in 2018. This new location allows the fire hall to be better positioned to improve response times in the northern part of the city.
The new facility includes office space, five vehicle bays, gym space, work areas, a dining room and five dorm rooms, and space for an ambulance.
The building envelope has been optimized to reduce the facility’s energy consumption, LED lighting has been proposed throughout the facility and heat recovery on the apparatus bay exhaust systems and CO control has resulted in a building which will be 47% more energy efficient than the baseline requirements set out in NECB 2011.
Image credit to Dwight Arthur and S2 Architecture