From the World Interior Design Network: A new $3.15 million station has opened in Germantown, Tenn. The station — designed by Renaissance Group of Lakeland and developed by Belz Investco — replaces the old Fire Station No. 4. It spans over four square miles comprising 280 acres of undeveloped commercially zoned land along with nearly 360 acres of undeveloped residentially zoned land. The 14,500-square-foot facility, adorned with colored concrete floors, encompasses two floors.

The building houses a training room with a capacity to house a maximum of 48. It can be segregated into a pair of classrooms according to one's requirements. The room incorporates laptop computer tables fitted with plug-ins, two flat-screen TVs, as well as two projectors. The station further sports eight dorm rooms consisting of four shared bathrooms, three drive-through bays, a police office, a backup 911 dispatch center, as well as a backup computer server room.

Among various other features of the facility are a stainless-steel commercial kitchen, a day room donning eight recliners, flat-screen TVs, an exercise room, a community room, and a stainless steel pole measuring four inches allowing firefighters to slide down from their sleeping quarters. The new building will have the capacity to resist an earthquake of 7.7 magnitude and a maximum windforce of 90mph. It will also employ a host of green measures such as installation of an individual thermostat in all sleeping quarters, and radiant floor heat in concrete in the bays.