Police and Fire Training Academy
Burn buildings, a drill tower, a driving course and classrooms on one campus, so police and fire recruits train together the way they respond together.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Justice & Public Safety
- Delivery
- Design-build
- Scale
- 64 acres
- Completed
- 2025
Live-fire burn buildings, a six-story drill tower, an emergency driving course and classrooms for police and fire recruits on one 64-acre campus.
A training academy is several hard buildings in one. The live-fire burn buildings had to take repeated Class A fires with thermal linings and temperature monitoring. The six-story drill tower had to carry rappelling anchors, standpipes and ladder pads. The emergency vehicle course needed a skid pad and an intersection layout tuned for training. All of it had to open for a recruit class already scheduled by two agencies.
The approach.
- 01
Instructors in design
Fire and police instructors reviewed burn room layouts, prop locations and the driving course geometry before design was fixed.
- 02
Burn rooms tested hot
Thermal linings, thermocouples and exhaust were proven in controlled test burns, with instructors watching the readings, before turnover.
- 03
Civil and buildings in parallel
Our earthwork crews built the driving course and site utilities while vertical crews worked on the tower and classrooms.
- 04
One handover for two agencies
Training, keys, records and warranties were organized so both departments took over the campus on the same day.
The outcome.
“We lit the first fires ourselves, with the instructors watching the gauges. Nobody signs off on a burn room from a checklist.”
Project manager, PerryWester
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