Prior to merging with Pickering Associates in 2016, Associated Architects was hired by the Air National Guard to design a Fire, Crash and Rescue Station for Yeager Airport. The 20,000 SQ FT facility was completed in the summer of 2006, and includes 12 apparatus bays, which were designed to be able to serve both the flight deck as well as the building on and off campus, living areas, a full kitchen and dorms. This unit also houses the main communications for the Guard’s responsive units, with high security requirements for both the protection of the building and also the flight deck. The design included unique elements such as the gravity fed foam fill stations, individual overhead waterfill stations for each bay, hazardous decontamination wash down rooms, air fill rooms and 15 second open garage doors.

The project team, led by Charles Keefer, AIA, worked with the Air National Guard, Yeager Airport and key stakeholders to make sure all programmatic needs were accommodated. The completed project cost was more than $4.5 million.