Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Conference Program

2012 CONFERENCE PROGRAM & AGENDA

Program and speakers outlined below are current as of December 20, 2011. Every attempt will be made not to deviate from the published program; however, FIRE CHIEF reserves the right to make changes if necessary.

GOLF TOURNAMENT: SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012

Join us for a fun and friendly golf tournament at the beautiful Arizona Grand Golf Course. Shot-gun start is at 1:00 p.m. and tournament fee includes boxed lunch and prizes.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION TRACKS: SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012

Pre-conference session tracks are available for a fee in addition to the full conference registration rate. Tracks are optional, and only ONE track can be selected per attendee. Full descriptions of each track are provided below. Please note that it is possible to attend the Station Tour Pre-Briefing and Station Tour at no additional charge without selecting one of the tracks.

Pre-Conference Session Track 1*
- Training Facilities—Making the Most with Limited Resources (9 a.m.-3 p.m.)
- Station Tour Pre-Briefing (3:15-4 p.m.)
- Station Tour (4-6:30 p.m.)

*If you are interested in attending Track 1 as a standalone option without full conference registration, please contact Kenna Skinner at kenna.skinner@penton.com or 913.967.1873. This is the ONLY track that can be purchased as a standalone option.

Pre-Conference Session Track 2 (Limited to Fire Department Personnel)
- Facility Planning: The Age of Volatility and the New Normal (9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.)**
- NFPA Codes and Fire Stations (1-2 p.m.)
- Building Safety Into Your Station (2-2:45 p.m.)
- Station Tour Pre-Briefing (3:15-4 p.m.)
- Station Tour (4-6:30 p.m.)

**For Facility Planning, group discussion will be from 9:30–10:30 a.m., and individual one-on-ones (one meeting per department) with an architect will be held between 10:45 a.m.–2:50 p.m. It is possible that your one-on-one consultation might conflict with NFPA Codes and Fire Stations or Building Safety Into Your Station, but you will be able to come and go from the sessions as needed.

Pre-Conference Session Track 3 (Targeted to Architects)
- Experience Speaks (9:30 a.m.-12 noon)
- NFPA Codes and Fire Stations (1-2 p.m.)
- Building Safety Into Your Station (2-2:45 p.m.)
- Station Tour Pre-Briefing (3:15-4 p.m.)
- Station Tour (4-6:30 p.m.)

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION DESCRIPTIONS: SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012

Training Facilities—Making the Most with Limited Resources
(Pre-Conference Track Registration Required)
It’s tough enough to fund improvements to your training facilities when the economy is good, let alone when the economy has tanked. And yet training is what prepares our firefighters for what they need to be able to do every day—safely and effectively, and above all, successfully. If you’re going to make some improvements, what can you do, how can you get more training out of what you already have, and where do you get the greatest return on your investment?
David Fergus, AIA, NCARB, Rice Fergus Miller Architecture & Planning; Roger LeBoeuf, Elliott LeBoeuf & McElwain

Facility Planning: The Age of Volatility and the New Normal
(Pre-Conference Track Registration Required)
Need help jump-starting your project? Our team of award-winning architects will take you through the early stages of station design and personally review your project. Participants meet as a group from 9:30-10:30 a.m. and then in one-on-one sessions (one meeting per department) with an architect between 10:45 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Regardless of the stage of planning, feasibility or even an initial idea, you will receive focused, expert advice needed to evaluate where you are now and how to proceed. Topics and ideas from previous years include:
• Developing the Action Plan/Structuring to Succeed
• Managing Expectations
• Economic Realities
• Emerging Trends
Expect additional focus on today’s construction marketplace and economy and how they will affect your project. This program is limited to 75 fire department personnel or 40 fire departments.
Mary McGrath, AIA, LEED AP, Mary McGrath Architects; Brian Harris, AIA, LEED AP, Forest Hooker, LEED AP, and Eric Schaer, TCA Architecture Planning, Inc.; David J. Pacheco, AIA, NCARB, and Dennis A. Ross, AIA, NCARB, Pacheco Ross Architects, P.C.; and Paul Erickson, AIA, LEED AP, LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects

Experience Speaks
(Pre-Conference Track Registration Required)
In this session designed primarily for architects, fire chiefs and project managers will share their experiences in building fire and emergency facilities.
Moderator: Asst. Chief Mike Baker, Elgin (Ill.) Fire Department

Lunch on Your 0wn
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

NFPA Codes and Fire Stations
(Pre-Conference Track Registration Required)
This presentation will provide the audience with a foundation of just what the NFPA has to offer with respect to requirements on fire station design. There will be a discussion of the various NFPA documents that address fire station design and how these documents can be used to address the many needs and demands for a safe and efficient fire station as well as with staying in compliance with building and safety codes.
Ken Holland FF/EMT-P, BA, MBA/PA, National Fire Protection Association

Building Safety Into Your Station
(Pre-Conference Track Registration Required)
Many times, safety and security are not considered priorities in fire station design until after construction is complete and accidents or losses begin to occur. This session will discuss how accidents and losses are occurring in fire stations and how they can be prevented by proper station design.
William F. Jenaway, Ph.D., CFPS, CFO, CSP, VFIS Education Training and Consulting

Station Tour Pre-Briefing
(Open to All Conference Attendees)
Before the buses leave to tour the Glendale Regional Training Center and Phoenix Fire Station 59, architects and representatives from each facility will offer insights on the design and construction phase, as well as areas of particular interest at each facility.
Assistant Chief Jim Higgins, Glendale Fire Department; Deputy Chief Ken Leake, Phoenix Fire Department; and Larry Enyart, FAIA, LEED AP, LEA Architects, LLC

Station Tour
(Open to All Conference Attendees)
Attendees will tour two award-winning public-safety facilities — Glendale Regional Training Center and Phoenix Fire Station 59.

Dinner on Your Own

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 (7:45 a.m. TO 5:00 p.m.)

What “The Great Recession” has Taught Us: Station Design & Construction
The recent economy has severely impacted most Fire Department and Municipal budgets, as well as created both opportunities and caveats to current building projects. We are currently experiencing the lowest construction cost in years, so it’s a great time to build. However, the current economy has also revealed greater risks – including contractor defaults and subcontractor claims. This seminar identifies ways to take advantage of the current economy, safeguard the successful completion of your project, and identify cost saving opportunities.
Ken Newell, AIA, LEED AP, Stewart-Cooper-Newell Architects

Operations Based Design
Never before has there been a time when fire departments require the tools necessary to present what is needed for their facilities vs. what is “nice to have”. In this presentation, fire department personnel will learn how to use their specific department operational procedures as the basis for the design of their facilities. They will learn how the specific functions of their department will dictate the outcome of an “operations‐based” facility, and how to use this information to present facility needs in a manner that can lead to successful funding. The course will include a discussion how a department can develop its “core requirements” as a phasing approach (due to budget constraints) and how this can be a natural evolution of an “operations based” design.
Mary McGrath, AIA, LEED AP, Mary McGrath Architects

LEED, Sustainability, and Fire & Rescue
These days more and more local governments are mandating new buildings be LEED Certified, including fire stations. Gain an understanding of what potential impacts LEED will have on your station, which green strategies to embrace (and which ones to avoid), and how to ensure green doesn’t end up costing your project extra money. This presentation will also explore examples of what some stations have done to be more ‘green’ and discuss common misconceptions about LEED.
Lynn Reda, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Hughes Group Architects

Fire Station 72: A Case Study in Partnering and Perseverance
Designing and constructing a fire station has always been a significant task. This presentation will discuss the process of how multiple agencies worked together to fund and design one of the highest rated LEED Platinum in the country. Why was there a need? What were the political drivers to push the envelope? How did an operations first approach align with sustainability? How have firefighters responded to working in the station and what are the performance measurement outcomes?
Brian Harris, AIA, LEED AP, TCA Architecture Planning; Wes Collins, Eastside Fire and Rescue; and Brad Liljequist, AICP, LEED-AP, City of Issaquah

Response & Recovery: Are You Prepared?
Natural disasters can happen at any moment. Learn how to design a station that can support your department in response and recovery efforts and get your firefighters ready. Hear from the Isle of Palms Fire Department fire chief that experienced firsthand the impact of building the “wrong building” during the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo, and learn what the department did differently to build the “right buildings”.
Mark Shoemaker, AIA, LEED AP, CR architecture + design and Chief Ann Graham, Isle of Palms Fire Department

Forging Ahead, Despite the Financial Crisis
Pre 9/11 neither FDNY nor Boston Fire invested heavily in fire station renovation. We designed multi-million dollar renovations to four fire stations, then the 2008 financial crisis hit. Each fire department had to forge ahead, but exactly how remained to be worked out. We helped them make careful decisions, and achieve the end result each was hoping for; fully renovated fire stations, ready for another hundred years of service.
Theodore Galante AIA, LEED AP, The Galante Architecture Studio, Inc.

Complimentary cocktail reception at the hotel from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: TUESDAY, May 1, 2012 (7:15 a.m. TO 4 p.m.)

Lessons From 2011 Gold Award Winners
Review of new trends and lessons learned from the winning entries in the 2011 Station Style Design Awards by two seasoned judges.
Paul Erickson, AIA, LEED AP, LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects

Cost-Effective Options—"Quality Never Costs as Much as the Money it Saves"
How can the Chief, Municipality or Owner maximize it’s small stash of funds for a new or renovated facility? Facility planning in this age of volatility has become the “New Normal.” Learn about cost-effective means for feasibility, programming, design, planning for the future and construction methods. Hiring a qualified Architect pays big dividends when trying to stretch your dollar. New, rehab, repurposing or project phasing may provide answers. Design and planning will make it real.
Dennis A. Ross, AIA, NCARB, Pacheco Ross Architects, P.C.

Design Your Station for the Health and Morale of the Crew
It is a well known axiom that any organization’s most valuable resource is its people. Fire Departments throughout the nation face the daily challenges of developing and maintaining well educated, well trained, and well conditioned professionals for emergency response. This seminar will illustrate and explore the many ways that a well-designed fire/rescue station can address and enhance the health, education and morale of its crew.
Paul Erickson, AIA, LEED AP, LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects

Station Design and the Grant Pursuit Process: A Case Study
This case study will present a comprehensive look at the steps necessary to seek and obtain grant funding for station development or improvement. The grant campaign conducted by the Stevens County (Wash.) Fire Protection District No. 1 in 2011-2012 will frame the discussion. The presentation will cover how to research and identify grant opportunities and then how to assess and improve chances for success.
Chief Mike Bucy, Stevens County (Wash.) Fire Protection District No. 1 and Jeff Humphreys, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Group Mackenzie

AFTERNOON BREAK-OUT SESSIONS: TUESDAY, May 1, 2012 (2 p.m. TO 3 p.m.)

Site Selection
Finding available, affordable and adequate property may prove to be the most challenging aspect of the building process since it is critical to successfully providing your community coverage. Learn to avoid costly mistakes as we review the case study of a conference attendee and present site attributes and strategies for selecting an ideal building site. Submit your site for consideration as the case study to Chris at c.pfeiffer@cr-architects.com.
Christopher Pfeiffer, AIA, LEED AP, CR architecture + design

Design Build as a Preferred Delivery Method
Design Build is an integrated delivery method that requires full accountability for architecture, engineering and construction. With this model the design-build team can be selected using qualifications based criteria instead of low price, insuring that the most qualified team is chosen. Presentation will include discussions from the Owner, the Architect and the Contractor discussing how this collaborative process was successfully used to complete the construction of three fire stations for the City of Vista, CA.
Jeff Katz, AIA, NCARB, LEED Green Associate, Jeff Katz Architecture; Nathan Complin, Erickson-Hall Construction Co.; and Robin Putnam, City of Vista, CA

How to Create an Energy Efficient Fire Station
This presentation will explain how to achieve an energy efficient fire station and will provide clear steps to do this. Participants will learn the fundamentals of energy conservation to reduce heat loss, and to provide heating and cooling at high efficiency. You will learn value engineering basics as they apply to choosing what energy savings measures are most cost effective through easily understood explanations and through case studies.
Robert Mitchell, AIA, Mitchell Associates Architects

AFTERNOON BREAK-OUT SESSIONS: TUESDAY, May 1, 2012 (3 p.m. TO 4 p.m.)

Best Top 10 Fire Station Renovation Ideas
With slim to nonexistent capital improvement budgets for building new fire stations, renovation of existing facilities is the new approach to improving fire operations. By renovating and extending the useful life of your existing fire station(s), you can improve firefighter working and living conditions on a shoestring budget. With limited budgets for building maintenance and capital improvements - what are the best top 10 renovation ideas to spend those precious dollars?
Candice Wong, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, RRM Design Group and Jim McClure, Retired Captain (formerly with San Jose Fire Department), Firehouse Design & Construction

Fire Boat Station
Doug and Mary will join together in a presentation of the operational requirements driving the space needs of a fire boat station. This presentation will go beyond basic station needs to berthing requirements, unique mass casualty and hazardous material response criteria to joint landside/waterside responses. Doug and Mary are currently working together on a Fire Boat Station Design Project for the Port of Long Beach and Doug is also on the Fire Boat Design Team for the fire boat the station will house.
Mary McGrath, AIA, LEED AP, Mary McGrath Architects and Doug Moore, Retired LAFD (39 years), USCG Master, 19 Yrs. LAFD Fire Boat, Doug Moore Maritime Consulting

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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Station Style Conference offers a limited number of sponsorship opportunities and exhibitor tables. For more information, contact Janet Wilmoth, FIRE CHIEF Editorial Director and Station Style Program Director, at 312-840-8410 or janet@firechief.com.