Framingham Fire Station #2

The new Fire Station #2 was built in Framingham to replace the previous off-site station, which dated back to 1901. With the previous station's site proving to no longer to be able to accommodate modern needs, the new station was constructed on an empty town-owned lot adjacent to Framingham High School and the Sudbury River. The new station offers a modern design with over 9,000 SF, ADA accessibility, three spacious apparatus bays, operations office, living quarters, workout area and comfortable common spaces.
 

Samiotes provided civil engineering, land surveying, and environmental permitting services for the project, which entailed extensive environmental permitting due to the site’s proximity to the Sudbury River (Riverfront and withing the Floodplain). This included an alternatives analysis, flood plain compensatory storage design and calculations, improving stormwater quality capabilities with minimal disruption, and no repaving to the adjacent high school parking lot by utilizing an existing water quality unit and armoring an eroding bank at its outlet.