The new Firehouse building is proposed to be a new two-story wood-framed office building with an attached one-story building for the apparatus garage bays. The new Tri-Town EMS building, to be built on a separate lot, is also proposed to be a wood-framed building. The Firehouse will be slab-on-grade with load bearing wood-stud walls supporting prefabricated wood trusses. The Tri-Town EMS building will be slab-on-grade with load bearing wood-stud walls supporting a conventional wood-framed superstructure. The apparatus garage bays for both structures will be a slab-on-grade, with a with CMU walls and prefabricated engineered wood roof trusses. Both buildings are proposed to be built on conventional shallow spread footing foundation with no basement or crawl space below.
