This facility received the Training Facilities Gold award in the 2022 Officer Station Design Awards.
The Kissimmee Public Safety Training Facility is a 22,940-SF building that includes a 20-lane, 50-yard indoor firing range, secured ammo and target storage room/workshop, gun cleaning room with compressed air hose drops, 40-person training classroom, defensive tactics room with floor and wall padding, as well as office space for both police and fire training administration.
The firing range is considered a dynamic tactical space that allows the police department to train under different conditions and at variable distances and angles from the firing line. To achieve this flexibility of use, includes a granulated rubber trap. A series of overlapping ceiling baffles provide acoustic absorption and ballistics protection to lights, HVAC ductwork / equipment, and roof above. Vehicles can be brought into the range through two pairs of overhead coiling doors that further enhance the training capabilities of the space. The range also affords the police department the ability to turn on police car lights mounted between the baffles. The floor of the range is outfitted to enable the use of custom wood partitions and obstacles created at the in-house workshop.
The facility also features a five-story, fire training tower. The 3,556-SF fire training facility consists of a pre-engineered structure featuring burn rooms, where temperatures can reach up to 1,200 degrees, repelling rail systems, mock-elevator shaft, moveable interior partition walls, an artificial smoke distribution system and smoke generator, and areas to mimic a residential unit, including an attic. The training tower features a parapet roof guard with chained opening as well as interior stairs up to the fourth floor. There’s also an interior set of stairs from the fourth floor to the roof. Materials include an exterior steel door, window openings with steel shutters and a roof hatch.
Architect/Firm Name: Architects Design Group
