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The third major component in a four-phase modernization of the Port of Long Beach’s fire safety services, this California project’s design actually began in New York. “We started our research by touring New York’s Fireboat. It was the nearest thing to what Long Beach was building,” says Jeff Katz, president of COAR Design Group. To add complications, the boat the facility would accommodate didn’t exist yet—it was still in design.
The finished station’s biggest challenge was the 11,200-sq-ft covered fireboat bay enclosure—the first in the port’s history. To provide access to the underside of the new roof deck unaffected by tides, Pinner improvised a “dance floor” elevated scaffolding technique used to construct performing arts theaters.