Challenge:
A municipal client’s police department was using an aging exterior firing range located at their public works facility for important tactical training. The municipality’s police force had outgrown the space, and the firing range was out of place at its current location as well as exposed to the elements.
Solution:
Valdes Architecture & Engineering provided complete architecture and engineering design for the new 15,000 sq. ft. police firing range and emergency operations center that will replace the exterior firing range.
The new firing range includes a ten-lane range space without designated lanes to allow for varied real-world training tactics, including the ability to bring vehicles into the range space to set up scenario-specific training. Ammunition storage and cleaning as well as a small evidence room are included in the range space. In the office area, a virtual reality training room and dispatch facilities are part of the project.
Impact:
Valdes architects and engineers collaborated to incorporate municipality-specific requirements in the new range, dispatch, and virtual training facility design, providing a facility to serve this police force for many years to come.