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November, 2008

Pinkard Construction Receives ABC's Excellence in Construction Award for Fire Station / Integrated Maintenance and Training Facility

Lakewood, CO - Associated Builders and Contractors Rocky Mountain has awarded Pinkard Constuction a 1st place Excellence in Construction award for its work on North Metro Fire Recue District's Fire Station 68 / Integrated Maintenance and Training Facility.

Fire Station 68 / Integrated Mainenance and Traiing Facility, which was completed this month, is a major fire training complex for North Metro Fire Resue District (NMFRD). The $13.95 million, seven building campus is constructed in the style of a small community to all ow NMFRD to provide real-life fire emergency simulations for first-time and on-going training in a state-of-the-art, safety-firest environment.

The 15-acre ground-up campus includes a 4-bay fire station; 4-bay maintenance building; classroom/office building; warehouse; Fire Training Center with three "burn Buldings": a 3-story tower, a ranch style home with basement, and 2-story apartment/mixed-use bulding. Fire training props in the burn buildings are computer-controlled from an observation area to allow training officers to immediately stop the fire if something goes wrong in a training scenario.

The burn building are clean burn Structures whose fire training props us propane to eliminate the black smoke, polluted fire training water and blackened training buildings normally associated with fire training facilites. A retention pond allows conservation of up to 60% of the fire training water, saving the District hundrers of thousand of gallons per year. The estimated 40% water loss is due soley to evaporation.

Outside, an "infield" training area provides for outdoor-related rescue scenarios with an emergency driving track, a "super-slick" concrete emergency skid pad, vehicle extrication area, confined space/trench rescue areas, water features for underwater rescue, and fuel spill fires area.

All building are primarily CMU with steel or pre-cast floors and roofs; concrete grade beams on caissons, cementitious siding with simulated stone wainscot, and asphalt shingles. The office portion of the fire station is wood framed. The classroom/office building is structial steel with steel studs.

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