This 5,000 square foot addition to the Central Fire Station in Forney, Texas provides facilities enabling the Fire Department to transition from part-time and volunteer personnel to a full-time professional staff accommodated on-site for 24/7 service.  Sharing an urban site with the Public Works Department required a compact two-story design in close proximity to adjacent streets, with new and existing facilities carefully interconnected.  The second floor dormitory provides living quarters for a captain and eight fire fighters with lockers to accommodate three shifts.  The first floor includes offices for the Chief and two assistants, and a training room which seats thirty.  Existing administration and commons areas were remodeled with new finishes, and to meet requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Freeman-Millican worked closely with the client to design two new kennels detached from, but with easy access to, existing customer and staff areas.  In addition to food preparation and storage areas, the kennels include forty individual pens, each consisting of indoor and outdoor compartments separated by sliding gates which are operable from outside the pens, enabling the dogs to be isolated from staff while the facilities are cleaned.  On the interior, dogs can be brought in during inclement weather, and their food is sheltered from insects and rodents.  The entire facility is built on sloped floors with drains in each pen for sanitary purposes and ease of cleaning.  Each kennel is surrounded by driveways enabling staff to easily transfer dogs from vehicles directly into their pens.  Customers can easily view the dogs from outside the kennel, and the dogs have access to fresh air and natural light.

Completed in February of 2002 with a construction cost of $600,000, this project involved the design of a 6,000 square foot laboratory building for municipal and industrial water and wastewater testing for the City of Sherman, Texas.

This project involved the design of a street through a wooded area, over a drainage channel, and around an existing neighborhood. It consisted of approximately 3,200 linear feet of concrete pavement, 990 linear feet of box culverts, and 118 linear feet of retaining walls. The construction cost was approximately $1,500,000. Pictured here is a photograph of the culvert after completion, a perspective drawing of the culvert, and a slope stability graph prepared by Freeman-Millican.

This project involved the design of over 408 linear feet of concrete channel and over 404 linear feet of precast 4′x3′ box culvert. Coordination with TxDOT, Railroad, and cemetery was vital for completion of project. Pictured here is a plan sheet prepared by Freeman-Millican as well as photographs taken before and after construction.

Design of approximately 4,000 square yards of new 10-inch thick reinforced concrete pavement over the existing asphalt road, 54 linear feet of a double 8’x4’ precast box culvert road crossing with a downstream headwall, 54 linear feet of a double 4’x2’ precast box culvert driveway crossing with two headwalls, 34 linear feet of a double 18-inch RCP culvert driveway crossing with two headwalls, asphalt repairs and a transition from the new concrete pavement to the existing asphalt pavement.

This project involved the design of 756 l.f. of 37′ wide concrete with integral curb street. The project involved coordination with utility companies in providing storm drainage to commercial park. Pictured here is a plan sheet prepared by Freeman-Millican as well as photographs taken before and after construction.

Freeman-Millican, Inc. provided inspection services to the City of Fate and the Royce City Independent School District for the construction of 8,415 linear feet of 8-inch to 24-inch gravity sanitary sewer line. FMI generated observation reports to ensure compliance to the engineer’s drawings and specifications. Pictured are the finished grade over the new sewer line along Blackland Road, looking toward the new RCISD intermediate school, and a typical pipe-laying phase of the construction of the project.

Freeman-Millican, Inc. is currently designing the Barnes Bridge Pump Station for the City of Mesquite. Major aspects of this design are the structural calculations and modeling that will ensure the safety as well as the durability and longevity of the pump station site.

Completed in 2004, this project consisted of the design of a 500,000 gallon composite elevated storage tank with a construction cost of $898,000. This facility is approximately 180′ tall and is approximately 30′ in diameter.