Portfolio Category: Public Safety

Edison State Police Station Field Office

Edison State Police Station Field Office UST System Investigation Edison, NJ As part of a contract with the NJDEP, the Division of Property Management and Construction engaged our team to evaluate a former underground storage tank (UST) system at the Edison State Police Station Field [...]

Huntington Manor Fire District

Huntington Manor Fire District New Training Facility Huntington Station, NY The Huntington Manor Fire District’s volunteer firefighters needed a local training tower that would enable them to train while remaining close to home to respond to emergency calls.  The site chosen for the new tower [...]

Hagerman Fire District

Hagerman Fire District 9/11 Memorial Hagerman, New York In memory of Lieutenant Andrew Desperito of FDNY Engine Company 1 and all others who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, the Hagerman Fire District commissioned a memorial that features steel salvaged from the World Trade [...]

Greenfield Fire Department

Greenfield Fire Department New Headquarters Greenfield, MA The Greenfield Fire Department in Greenfield, MA needed a new headquarters. Before they could find a new site, though, the local library co-opted their original station’s property. H2M designed temporary facilities for the Department during the site search, [...]

Central Islip Fire District

Central Islip Fire District New Training Building at Station 2 Central Islip, NY The Central Islip Fire District did not have its own training facility, which means that firefighters had to travel outside District to get their required training. After working with the community to [...]

Bellmore Fire District

Bellmore Fire District New Training Tower and Logistics Building Bellmore, NY Financed by a community bond vote, the Bellmore Fire District’s new three-story training tower and logistics building is their first training facility and is sited less than a mile from multiple stations. Previously, responders [...]

North Massapequa Fire Department

North Massapequa Fire Department Headquarters Reconstruction North Massapequa, NY On Christmas Day, fire ripped through the North Massapequa Fire Department headquarters, destroying their apparatus bay and several apparatus. Adjacent spaces also suffered residual smoke and water damage. H2M redesigned their headquarters and new apparatus bay [...]

Southampton Police Department

Southampton Police Department Sub Header Southampton, NY The Town of Southampton Police Department needed a new station. Their original station, which was built in 1977, needed more space for offices, police functions, and the opportunity for future growth. The mechanical equipment and roof also needed [...]

East Northport Fire District

East Northport Fire District Substation Replacement East Northport, NY Originally constructed in the 1930s as a potato barn, the old substation had only one overhead door for two apparatus bays, leading to concerns about vehicle movement and response times. The old building was not energy [...]

City of Lethbridge

City of Lethbridge New Fire Headquarters Lethbridge, AB, Canada To improve emergency response and operational efficiency, the City of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada moved multiple critical city functions into a single building: the fire department, an emergency operations center, the 9-1-1 call center, the fire [...]

Fort Washington Fire Company

Fort Washington Fire Company New Fire Station Fort Washington, PA H2M designed a new fire station for the Fort Washington Fire Company in Pennsylvania, who wanted to combine their volunteer fire company, a student bunker program, emergency operations center, training facilities, and municipal offices into [...]

West Natick Fire Station

West Natick Fire Station New Station Natick, MA The Town of West Natick’s population growth exceeded the old fire station’s ability to serve. The multi-firm team designed the new 25,000-square-foot station on an oddly shaped site adjacent to a major highway. A new pocket park [...]

Village of Waterford

Village of Waterford New Fire Station Village of Waterford, NY After multiple dangerous storm events, the Village of Waterford needed to consolidate their three aging stations into a centralized location outside the 500-year floodplain. The chosen site met their needs, minimized demolition costs, and maximized [...]

County of Saratoga

County of Saratoga New Public Safety Facility County of Saratoga, NY The County of Saratoga sought to combine all of their essential service departments under one roof: emergency services, an emergency operations center (EOC), public safety answering point (PSAP), the sheriff’s office, and the public [...]

Roslyn Highlands Hook & Ladder, Engine & Hose Fire Company

Roslyn Highlands Hook & Ladder, Engine & Hose Fire Company New Fire Station Roslyn Heights, NY The Roslyn Highlands Hook & Ladder, Engine & Hose Fire Company’s Sub-Station on Harbor Hill Road was outdated and could not provide optimal emergency response functions. H2M collaborated with [...]

Port Washington Police District

Port Washington Police District New Headquarters Port Washington, NY The Port Washington Police District outgrew their single-story facility, despite trying to keep up with Department growth and needs through several renovations, additions, and outbuildings. H2M explored construction of a new facility on the tight current [...]

Rockville Centre Police Department

Rockville Centre Police Department Relocation of the Police Department Rockville Centre, NY When the Rockville Centre Police Department found deficiencies in their former station, the Village of Rockville Centre opted to relocate the Police Department to space within an existing Water Department facility. The transition [...]

The Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, Inc.

The Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, Inc. New Rescue Station Princeton, NJ The Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, Inc. (PFARS), which serves a community of 30,000 people in Princeton, New Jersey outgrew their original station. It took 15 years of working with PFARS [...]

City of Norwalk

City of Norwalk New Fire Station Norwalk, CT The City of Norwalk sought to utilize a narrow property between Connecticut Route 1 and I-95 as its new fire headquarters and a federally-funded emergency operations center (EOC). When the State widened both I-95 and Route 1, [...]

Mill Creek Fire Company

Mill Creek Fire Company New Fire Headquarters Marshallton, DE The Mill Creek Fire Company in Marshallton, Delaware needed a new station, one that could allow for expanded response, operations, and would meet current code requirements. The architects assessed the existing station and determined that the [...]

Town of Lexington

Town of Lexington New Fire Headquarters Lexington, MA The Town of Lexington’s old fire headquarters didn’t meet modern building codes, prevent carcinogenic cross-contamination, or meet trends for gender equity or well-being. It also hindered operations and response times. The new station is on the same [...]

Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1

Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District No. 1 New Fire Station Waterford, NY With a growing rural and suburban population, the Halfmoon-Waterford Fire District needed to replace their primary fire and medical response facility. With the Fire Company’s collaboration, H2M provided the District with a state-of-the-art station at [...]

Elmont Fire District Engine 4 Station

Elmont Fire District Engine 4 Station New Fire Station Elmont, NY The Elmont Fire District’s old Engine 4 Station was in poor condition and hadn’t been renovated in many years. Sited on a narrow lot in a dense suburban neighborhood near the border of Nassau [...]

Cortez Fire Protection District

Cortez Fire Protection District New Station Cortez, CO The old Cortez, Colorado fire station was small, outdated, and didn’t have the necessary infrastructure to prevent carcinogenic cross-contamination or even house all of its equipment indoors. It was more cost-effective to build a new state-of-the-art station [...]

County of Albany

County of Albany New Emergency/911 Call Center Clarksville, NY The Sheriff’s Office desired a new building to serve as their emergency coordination headquarters, with separate utilities and backup power providing as many of the NFPA 1221 standard features as feasible within budget. The approximately 12,000-square-foot [...]

Setauket Fire Department

Setauket Fire Department Additions and Alterations Setauket, NY The Setauket community loved their 90-year-old fire station Headquarters, but local growth and evolving building codes and safety standards meant that the existing facility could no longer serve efficiently and safely. The H2M design team had to [...]

Manorville Community Ambulance

Manorville Community Ambulance New Ambulance Headquarters Manorville, NY The Manorville Community Ambulance needed a new headquarters building that could house all of their apparatuses and accommodate training and administrative spaces. During the construction process, the design team discovered forgotten, buried oil tanks under the existing [...]

Niskayuna Fire District No.1

Niskayuna Fire District No.1 Renovation and Addition Niskayuna, NY The existing Niskayuna Fire District No.1 station dated back to pre-World War II. Due to its size, the District was forced to store critical response apparatus at another location which impacted response times. They needed an [...]

Massapequa Fire District Park House Substation

Massapequa Fire District Park House Substation New Station Massapequa Park, NY Originally built in 1953, the existing Massapequa Park House Station did not comply with modern building codes or firefighting best practices. The Board of Commissioners requested that the design for a new station adapt [...]

Mastic Volunteer Ambulance Company

Mastic Volunteer Ambulance Company Ambulance Headquarters Addition + Alteration Brookhaven, NY When emergency medical calls tripled in the Town of Brookhaven, NY, the Mastic Volunteer Ambulance Company acquired more response vehicles than could fit inside their existing building. H2M designed renovations for the entire facility [...]

Mineola Fire Department

Mineola Fire Department New Fire Headquarters Mineola, NY The Mineola Fire Department responded out of its old station for over 100 years. Various additions and modifications tried to accommodate the Department’s growth but couldn’t keep up. On top of that, the original bow-string trusses began [...]

New Jersey Army Reserve National Guard Readiness Center

New Jersey Army Reserve National Guard Readiness Center MEP Systems Design Lakehurst, NJ We designed the MEP systems for the New Jersey National Guard Readiness Center, located on the Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst in Lakehurst, NJ. The 41,000-square-foot facility supports the training, administration, and [...]