#23. City of Seattle Joint Training Facility

Seattle’s Joint Training Facility will be used for training the city’s Fire Department, Public Utilities Department and Department of Transportation personnel.

The facility, being developed on 13 acres, will be made up of five training structures, including a drill tower, a collapsed building, a state-of-the-art burn building, a trench/confined safety prop, and an overpass and vehicle extraction prop. Four support buildings will be included: the classroom training building, apparatus bay building, pavilion building and materials storage building.

The project is expected to achieve silver LEED status from the U.S. Green Building Council, with components such as natural ventilation and cooling, interior day lighting, water-efficient landscaping and recycled fire training water. The Fire Department will use the facility’s classroom and burn facilities, allowing crews to practice on operating elevators and many other facets of emergency training.

Seattle Public Utilities will use the facility for its vault system, created for confined space and retrieval training, and to practice various hands-on training exercises.

The Department of Transportation will perform training for commercial drivers and heavy-equipment operators at the facility. Classes also will be held in industrial hydraulics and electronics, used for the maintenance and operations of the city’s bridges.

The facility will bring together various city departments to train as a unit, which is expected to create a more efficient and safer workforce.

PROJECT PARTICIPANTS

Contractor: W.G. Clark Construction, 408 Aurora Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109, (206) 624-5244 Architect: Boxwood, 1218 Third Ave., Suite 1412, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 343-0236 (consulting architect) TCA Architecture & Planning, 6211 Roosevelt Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115, (206) 522-3830 Engineers: BRC Acoustics (acoustic) Coughlin Porter Lundeen (civil and structural) Keen Engineering (mechanical) PacRim Geotechnical (geotechnical) Sparling (electrical) SvR Design Co. (civil and landscape design) Construction manager: Shiels Obletz Johnsen Owner: City of Seattle, Fleets and Facilities

Other Participants
Advanced Equipment Corp.	Advanced Fire Protection	Air Placed Concrete Specialists
Anthony Burges Consulting (hydrologist)	Architextures	Arrow Striping
Axiom Construction and Consulting	Berg Scaffolding	Builder’s Hardware & Supply
Commercial Fence Corp.	Concrete Technology Corp.	Construction Supply
Cressy Door Co.	Crowe Building Specialties	Diamond B Constructors
Direct Buying Service	DMI Drilling	EHS Electrical
Emerald City Weatherproofers	Evergreen House	Glacier Northwest
Heery International (commissioning agent)	Icon Materials	Indoff
Innovative Interiors	Insulation Contractors	Interiors Northwest of Puyallup
InteriorTek	Ironman Steel Erectors	J & S Masonry
Kiddie Fire Trainers	Mattison Martinoli	Meriwether Leachman
Meyer Bros. Roofing	Milltech	North Star Industries
Northwest Land Services	Olympic Concrete Finishing	Otto Rosenau & Associates
Pace (surveyor)	Pacific Coast Northwest (onsite representative)	P.B.S. Supply Co.
R & A Concrete	Ralph’s Concrete Pumping	R & H Contractors
Roen Associates (cost estimating)	Rose City Rebar and Post Tensioning Co.	SCI Infrastructure
Slead Construction	Southeast Glass	SS Landscaping Services
Standard Steel Fabricating Co.	Steel Systems Technology	Stiles Custom Metal
Turnstone Contractors	United Reprographics	Vanderlip & Co.
White Cap Construction Supply	Zesbaugh