Tully Fire Station Renderings

This image is taken from the field directly across Mill Yard Road.

This image is taken looking southeast towards the Mill Yard Road site.

Building Committee Meeting

The next building committee meeting is to be held June 10, 2008 at 4:00 pm. The meeting will be held at the central fire station. The agenda will include a review of progress on construction documents; review of proposed equipment and appliances to be included in the contract; and discussion on the public presentation at the July 23rd meeting of the Orange Board of Selectmen.

Schematic Plans

February 3, 2008 Final Schematic Plan

These final schematic plans and elevations will be forwarded on to our engineers February 4, 2008 so that design development work can begin. Variations from the plans presented on January 29 include:

Radio Room (Office 1 )has been located to the southwest corner of the building and has been slightly enlarged.

Community Meeting Room has been located to the northwest corner of the building. A small countertop with convenience sink has been added. Coat closet and table chair storage have also been added.

Office 2 has been located to the northeast corner of the building.

The next building committee meeting, February 12, at 4:00 pm will include discussions on the following items:

1. Location of all electrical receptacles including light switches, outlets, broadband, telephone, cable.

2. Location of all whiteboards, tackboards, built in casework.

3. Interior elevations.

Elevation Alternatives, Systems and Materials

1 Shed Roof Scheme
This scheme reduces the parallel "wings" of the building reducing the height of the building. Clerestorey windows at the sides of the center bay would be added. As a result of lowering the sides, mezzanine storage would be eliminated requiring additional square footage on the ground floor with no opportunity for adding additional trucks in the future unless additional construction is done. Photovoltaics would not work on this scheme unless the plan is rotated 90 degrees.

2 Gable Roof Scheme
This scheme eliminates the central cupola but still allows for loft storage and a larger community meeting room. This scheme has the most economical roof structure with a series of single ridge roof trusses, with gable overframing over the apparatus bay doors to divert snow and water. This scheme provides for future expansion by relocating storage presently shown on the apparatus floor to the loft level. The south elevation would not have a gable to allow for installation of photovoltaic panels.

3 Gable Roof Scheme with Cupola

This is the original elevation presented on January 15th.

Building Materials
The January 15th meeting included discussion on building materials which were approved for use.

Exterior Materials
Exterior of the building will be smooth faced concrete fiber board siding, prepainted with concrete fiber board trim, prepainted. Windows will be aluminum windows with thermal break. Roofing will be thirty year, architectural grade asphalt shingles. Exterior doors will be insulated,galvanized, hollow metal doors. Front door will be aluminum, glazed with safety glass. Wall construction will be 2x8 wood studs with batt insulation and painted gypsum board.

Interior Materials
Interior materials will be painted gypsum board with resilient base. Interior walls of wet areas will be epoxy painted, moisture resistant gypsum board. Interior of apparatus bay will include a 48" high, fiberglas reinforced panel wainscot and will be lined with plywood backer for future wall storage. Ceilings will be painted gypsum board, office and meeting room ceilings will be acoustic tile. Floors will be sealed concrete at apparatus bay and utility spaces, VCT at all other offices, lockers, meeting rooms, etc.

Building Systems

Contract will include purchase and burial of 2000 gallon propane tank to fuel propane burners for heat and hot water. Building will be served by emergency generator, sized to accomodate full building loads. Telephone and electric service will be from pole at nearby intersection with possiblilty of burial under Mill Yard Road. Building will not be air conditioned and will use operable windows for ventilation. Apparatus bay and service areas are to be heated with radiant floor, offices and meeting rooms to be hot water baseboard radiation.

January 29 Building Committee

Revised elevation showing 2 story apparatus bay with flanking shed roof


Revised Plan developed after January 15th meeting sent out January 18th




Jeff Cole suggested a building form with two stories over apparatus bays, one story shed roofs at flanking the center form. This form had been studied previously by Juster Pope Frazier but was not preferred over the current scheme because it eliminates loft storage (which allows for future additional apparatus on the apparatus floor) and can lead to snow drifts piling up against the long clerestory windows. It also creates potential ventilation issues at the lower roofs. We still prefer the double gable scheme presented at the January 15 meeting.

Rick Kwiatkowski inquired about LEED design certification. This is a program administered by the US Green Building Council. Juster Pope Frazier is reviewing potential options and potential additional costs to seek LEED certification. http://www.usgbc.org/


Kevin Chrobak is reviewing Massachusetts Technology Collaborative options for possible installation of photovoltaics on south roof plain. Juster Pope Frazier and Lindgren Sharples are reviewing extent of photovoltaics possible for available grant money from MTC. New station would be ideal for photovoltaics since it will draw minimal current for radiant heat and water pumps most all of the time. Installation of photovoltaics at south would eliminate gable at this end of building, simplifying framing. http://www.mtpc.org/

Juster Pope Frazier has sent out site plan approved at last meeting to the civil engineer to begin setting top of slab, utility layouts, driveway parking layouts and grading plan.

Juster Pope Frazier has sent out RFP for geotechnical services from three companies to determine subsurface conditions. Proposals are due February 1, 2008.

Kevin Chrobak visited Tully to photograph local buildings with similar details and forms, focusing on the church and the barn adjacent to it. Details from these buildings can be integrated into the new station.

Decisions Required at January 29 meeting


Approval of revised schematic plan for distribution to engineers for final schematics.

Approval of building elevations for distribution to engineers for final schematics.