Work session highlights sprinkler vs code trade-offs and engineering fees for fire station project
Councilors heard that sprinklers might allow a wood-frame design and that design drawings could cost roughly $30,000; members discussed using a precise statement of work to hold consultants to a prescribed scope.
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Staff and the structural engineer explained a key code trade-off: bringing the existing building fully to current code would require interior upgrades, but installing fire sprinklers could permit a wood-frame solution. As one agency official put it, "if you sprinkle it, we could build it out of wood" (S3).
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