Winter Park, FL (April 27, 2011) – Architects Design Group (ADG) completed the design-build criteria documents for the new 37,500 square foot City of North Port Fleet Maintenance facility located on the corner of Price and Chamberlain Boulevards.
City officials, public works staff, and community representatives gathered to celebrate ground breaking for the new facility on Monday, April 25; and the project is now under construction.
The project has been something the City has been planning for a number of years. Since the early 1980’s, the fleet inventory has increased from 150 vehicles to more than 500 today.
The new facility will provide the City a state-of-the-art Vehicle Service Facility including, 15,000 square feet of office space for the Fleet Division and Public Works Administration, 12 work bays, a vehicle fuel/wash station; and the development of ± 17 acres, with various retention ponds, support infrastructure, utilities, and pavement that provides for future site build-out of the Public Works Department.
The facility is programmed to provide for the current space needs of the Fleet Maintenance Department, with provisions for future expansion to meet the 2025 needs. In the interim, the future expansion space will be utilized by Public Works Administration, to re-locate personnel and equipment from trailers on site into the new storm-hardened facility, where the Department can remain in operation during and after an emergency event.
Consistent with the City’s goals for sustainable design and operational efficiency, ADG’s design criteria includes automated building systems controls for lighting and HVAC, water conserving and low-flow metered fixtures, and solar hot water heating. Proposed energy efficient construction is to include thermally efficient glazing assemblies and envelope design, and solar shading. In addition, stormwater management systems utilize bioswales, and native species are used in all landscape buffers.
The facility is scheduled to be completed in early 2012.
Established in 1971, Architects Design Group, Inc. is a full-service architectural and planning firm based in Winter Park, Florida with a branch office in Fort Myers, Florida that specializes in the innovative design of public sector architecture, including public works, municipal, transportation, public safety, emergency operations centers, and cultural facilities throughout the United States. The firm has received many awards including the AIA Florida Firm of the Year Award in 2002 and the AIA Orlando Firm of the Year Award in 2009. As well as being ranked as the 2nd Largest Central Florida Architecture Firm by the Orlando Business Journal in 2010. To learn more about Architects Design Group, visit www.adgusa.org.