Building Types
60x150 Fire and EMS Station Building
- Width
- 60 ft
- Length
- 150 ft
- Floor area
- 9,000 sq ft
- Perimeter
- 420 ft
Quick dimensions
At a Glance
Width
60 ft across the gable end.
Length
150 ft along the sidewall.
Floor area
9,000 sq ft of clear floor.
Eave height
14 ft at the sidewall on the stored profile.
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Configuration
How This Building Is Configured
Configuration summary
| Building type | Fire and EMS Station Building |
|---|---|
| Footprint | 60 ft × 150 ft |
| Floor area | 9,000 sq ft |
| Eave height | 14 ft |
Planning
Footprint & Space Planning
Footprint
Width and length are chosen together: width is usually fixed by what has to fit side by side, length by how many bays are needed.
Height
Eave height affects door options, storage height and how open the interior feels.
Access
Where vehicles and people enter changes the whole interior layout, so access is settled before anything else.
Doors and openings
Opening width, height and position are specified with the supplier; they affect the frame and the wall bracing.
Site
Slope, drainage, access for delivery and erection, and the foundation are confirmed for the actual property.
Expansion
Extending along the length is usually simpler than changing the width later, which is worth deciding up front.
Use
How a 60×150 Fire and EMS Station Building May Be Used
Assembly space
Clear-span width determines how the main space can be arranged and seated.
Support rooms
Ancillary rooms are commonly placed along one side or at one end.
Access and egress
Entrance and exit placement follows the occupancy requirements for the use.
Acoustics and finish
Interior treatment is specified with the intended activity in mind.
Example
Example Configuration
Access
Doors & Access Considerations
Opening width
Across a 60 ft gable end, the practical opening width is limited by the frame and confirmed with the supplier.
Opening height
A 14 ft eave sets the ceiling on door height before any frame change.
Drive-through
Matching openings at both ends avoid reversing, at the cost of usable wall.
Similar sizes
Other Sizes for a Fire and EMS Station Building
60′ × 130′
7,800 sq ft
60′ × 170′
10,200 sq ft
50′ × 150′
7,500 sq ft
Related
Related Building Types
Example configuration — for planning purposes only.
FAQ
Common Questions
60 ft × 150 ft is 9,000 square feet of floor area before any interior partitions.
Length is usually adjusted in bay increments, and width is a larger design change. Both are confirmed with the supplier for the final design.
Site preparation, foundation and erection are commonly quoted separately from the building package. Confirm the scope of any quote you receive.
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Related footprints for this building type
Each page works through one footprint for one building type.
Overview
A 60x150 fire and ems station building planned as a station combining an apparatus floor with dedicated training or drill space under one roof
This page is ordered around through route, because that is the decision this footprint settles first and every later choice follows from it.
3 training bays fit across the 60-foot width with only 0 feet left over, which is a tight fit: the width is fully committed and nothing can be widened later without moving a wall.
Efficiency is the useful number here: 750 square feet of enclosed floor per training bay, against a 640-square-foot module. That is a tight, efficient allocation with little slack. Whoever operates the building daily should read the plan before it is frozen, because they know where the pinch points are.
A 60 by 150 footprint is a long corridor of a plan: 9,000 sq ft enclosed by 420 ft of wall, at a 2.5:1 length-to-width proportion. Along its 150 ft dimension it takes 4 runs of training bays at 32 ft, leaving 22 ft over — the 22 ft is where the argument about this size actually happens. Taken purely as arithmetic, 60 by 150 gives 2 training bays across the 60 ft dimension once 18 ft is reserved for movement, and 4 deep along the 150 ft dimension. Run as a a station combining an apparatus floor with dedicated training or drill space under one roof, 2 ft across is below the 16 ft this use needs to be worth planning, so there is no separation zone, so a drill in progress has to be cleared entirely before the apparatus floor can be used for an actual response Clearance in the apparatus bay follows the tallest apparatus expected to be housed there, not the ceiling height anywhere else in the building.
At 60x150 the operating question is a specific one: can the training area be used at full activity while the apparatus bay stays clear and ready, or does one always have to stand down for the other? That is a different question from the one a fire and ems station building of another shape has to answer, and it is why this footprint is planned as a station combining an apparatus floor with dedicated training or drill space under one roof rather than as generic covered area.
Areas, perimeter, roof area, ridge height, slab volume and the training bay counts on this page are computed from the stored 60x150 record and this platform's planning module for the fire and ems station building category.
Height
Interior height for a 60x150 fire and ems station building
Span drives headroom at 60x150: 60 feet of width on a 3:12 pitch puts 21.5 feet over the middle and 14 feet at the walls, so where a tall item stands matters as much as how tall it is. The building is fixed for decades while the operation inside it changes every few years, and the plan has to survive that.
Training space often needs different clearance than the apparatus bay — a drill tower or hose-drying area may want more height than the bay itself — so each zone's height should be set by its own use rather than by matching the bay uniformly.
Ventilation across 9,000 square feet at this height: exhaust capture in the bays is planned as part of the building rather than added afterwards.
Clear height below purlins, bracing and lighting is lower than the eave height. The usable figure comes from the manufacturer's framing for the selected building.
Usable area
How the 9,000 square feet divides at 60x150
Computed training bay fit for a 60x150 fire and ems station building
| Measure | Computed at this footprint |
|---|---|
| Training bays across the 60-foot width | 3 at a 20-foot module |
| Leftover width | 0 ft (0 sq ft as a full-length strip) |
| Rows along the 150-foot length | 4 at a 32-foot module after 18 ft of circulation |
| Leftover depth | 4 ft (240 sq ft across the width) |
| Total training bays | 12 |
| Share of floor committed | 85% |
Module footprint used here is 20 by 32 feet, this platform's planning module for a fire and ems station building. It is not a code minimum or an engineered clearance.
Example allocation of the 150-foot length — planning model, not survey data
| Zone | Length along the building | Computed area |
|---|---|---|
| Primary operating area | 90 ft | 5,400 sq ft |
| Customer or staff area | 33 ft | 1,980 sq ft |
| Back of house and utility | 27 ft | 1,620 sq ft |
Shares applied to the stored 150-foot length; areas computed against the 60-foot width.
Module footprints and allocation shares come from this platform's use typology and are published as example planning models. They are not recommendations and do not describe a majority of projects.
Openings
Openings for 3 training bays across
Openings are the pinch point here. With 0 feet of spare width the gable cannot host 3 separate doors, so access is either shared or moved to the 150-foot sidewall. The floor treatment is a use decision that outlasts most of the equipment standing on it.
The 60 ft ends and the 150 ft sides offer very different opening budgets: 60 ft of end wall has room for one wide opening or two modest ones, while 150 ft of side wall can carry several without the openings competing. On this plan the deciding factor is whether apparatus and training station or drill space planning should be the first thing reached from the door.
Framed-opening sizes, headers and the structure around them are engineered for the specific building. Confirm every opening with the door supplier and the building manufacturer before ordering.
Allocation
Dividing the floor for a station combining an apparatus floor with dedicated training or drill space under one roof
The staffing and turnout pattern this station could equally be planned for is a volunteer station members drive to and park apparatus in, entering and exiting through the same bay front: there is no turnout area between the bays and the day room, so gear is staged wherever there is a wall left over and members cross the bay floor to reach it. The apparatus floor keeps a dedicated, unobstructed zone including its own approach and door; training space, whether a drill tower footprint, a classroom, or an open floor for equipment drills, occupies a separate zone connected by circulation rather than by shared floor.
There is no end zone at this footprint. 4 feet is circulation slack, not floor area with a purpose, and there is no separation zone, so a drill in progress has to be cleared entirely before the apparatus floor can be used for an actual response. Daylight placement changes how a floor is used far more than its cost suggests.
Width is fully committed at 60x150. With 0 feet spare, wall storage and passing room compete with the training bays directly. Security and after-hours access are easier to design in the door layout than to bolt on later.
Compared with a 60 by 110 of the same width, the extra depth here adds run rather than reach: it buys about 4 training bays in line, and every position past the second is retrieved by moving what stands in front of it. Spent as a square 95 by 95 instead, the same 9,000 sq ft would stand 3 training bays across rather than 2, and would trade this plan's length for parallel access. That is the width-against-depth decision this footprint has already made. A building of this size behaves like a small yard under a roof: zones need to be defined, signed and left alone, or they migrate. Two independent activities need to run without either one waiting on the other, so scheduling and layout both matter: the apparatus response sequence has to be assumed possible at any time, including during a scheduled drill. Whether a station needs quarters, how many bays are required, and how coverage is distributed across substations are determined by the department and the authority having jurisdiction, not by the building program. That movement pattern, not the 9,000-square-foot total, is what decides whether the leftover 4 feet is useful here.
Configurations
Configuring 12 training bays at 60x150
At 25-foot nominal bays the structure works with the layout instead of against it: one training bay per bay line, walls free of awkward half-positions. The span is the commitment; everything inside it is rearrangeable later, and the 60-foot dimension is not.
Depth here creates a hierarchy: 4 rows means front positions get used and rear positions get filled. Deciding which is which up front is what keeps 60x150 workable. Doors and their approaches decide more about daily use here than the enclosed area does.
Extension is cheapest along the 150 ft dimension, where each added bay repeats work already framed; widening past 60 ft is a different frame rather than a longer one. Growing to 60 by 182 adds a 5th run of training bays — useful if the constraint is training bays rather than the 22 ft already spare at the far end.
Configured as a station combining an apparatus floor with dedicated training or drill space under one roof, 60x150 is judged on whether the 12 training bays it holds match the operation, and on whether the 0 feet of spare width leaves the route this mode depends on.
- Does the work need four lanes across, or two lanes flanking an interior work hall, or does it need a second lane that this 60-foot span cannot give?
- Is the 150-foot length being bought for depth, or for the repeated bays — a long repeating bay sequence, so segment boundaries are set by bay lines rather than by walls?
- Is the tallest apparatus dimension measured with everything mounted?
- Drive-through or reverse-in, and what does the apron allow?
Bay division shown here is a planning module computed from the stored length. Actual bay spacing is set by the manufacturer's frame design for the building.
Comparison
What changes at adjacent footprints
Computed comparison of nearby footprints for a fire and ems station building
| Footprint | Floor area | Training bays |
|---|---|---|
| 60x60 | 3,600 sq ft | 4 (4 x 1) |
| 50x80 | 4,000 sq ft | 3 (3 x 1) |
| 40x100 | 4,000 sq ft | 4 (2 x 2) |
| 60x80 | 4,800 sq ft | 6 (3 x 2) |
| 40x120 | 4,800 sq ft | 6 (2 x 3) |
Areas computed from each stored size record; training bay counts computed with the same 20 by 32 foot planning module.
- 60x60 moves the count from 12 to 4 training bays (4 across by 1 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
- 50x80 moves the count from 12 to 3 training bays (3 across by 1 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
- 40x100 moves the count from 12 to 4 training bays (2 across by 2 deep), which is the reason to choose between them.
Nearby footprints read for a fire and ems station building: exact change in area and in planning training bays
| Footprint | Area Δ | % Δ | Training bays at that footprint | What changes for this use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80x120 | +600 sq ft | +6.7% | 16 (4 x 4) | +4 training bays on the same planning module. |
| 80x100 | −1,000 sq ft | −11.1% | 12 (4 x 3) | Same training bay count on this planning module; the difference is circulation and stored depth, not capacity. |
| 50x150 | −1,500 sq ft | −16.7% | 8 (2 x 4) | −4 training bays on the same planning module. |
| 60x120 | −1,800 sq ft | −20% | 12 (3 x 4) | Same training bay count on this planning module; the difference is circulation and stored depth, not capacity. |
Areas are arithmetic on two stored size records; training bay counts use this platform's 20 by 32 foot planning module and are not a capacity statement.
Because this footprint is planned as a station combining an apparatus floor with dedicated training or drill space under one roof, the useful next reads are different from the ones a differently shaped fire and ems station building suggests: apparatus and training station, drill space planning, combined training fire station.
Visualization
Reading the 60x150 footprint as a fire and ems station building
FAQ
Questions about 60x150 fire and ems station building projects
3 training bays fit across the 60-foot width with only 0 feet left over, which is a tight fit: the width is fully committed and nothing can be widened later without moving a wall. Those counts use a 20 by 32 foot planning module with 18 feet allowed for circulation, so a different module changes the answer.
Reserving 18 ft across the 60 ft dimension for movement leaves 42 ft of working width, which takes 2 training bays at 20 ft. Along 150 ft it takes 4 runs at 32 ft. That is 8 positions out of 9,000 sq ft, and the remainder is circulation, walls and the margin every plan needs. Whether that count is enough depends on can the training area be used at full activity while the apparatus bay stays clear and ready, or does one always have to stand down for the other. These are planning figures computed from the footprint, not a quoted layout.
A 4-inch slab across 9,000 square feet computes to 111.1 cubic yards before thickened edges, piers or waste. The final design comes from the foundation engineer.
It can be planned that way, but doing so routinely blurs the separation this mode depends on. If overflow storage is a real need, it is better planned as its own zone than absorbed into training space.
5,880 square feet of wall and 9,277 square feet of roof at a 3:12 pitch — the roof exceeding the floor by 3%.
Methodology
How this page was produced
Sources and methodology
Find Steel Buildings dimensional records
Find Steel Buildings · Primary platform dataset · Tier 1 — code authority, standards body, primary dataset or manufacturer engineering
Supports: Stored nominal width, length, eave height, roof pitch and slab thickness for this subject.
International Building Code and International Residential Code
International Code Council · Model code · Tier 1 — code authority, standards body, primary dataset or manufacturer engineering
Supports: The framework of adopted codes and local amendments that decides permitting, separation and opening requirements. Cited as the governing framework, never as a local requirement.
- Dimensional figures: Width, length, eave height, roof pitch and nominal slab thickness come from this platform's stored record for the subject. Floor area, perimeter, wall area, roof area, ridge height and slab volume are computed from those inputs rather than transcribed.
- Training bay fit: Counts, leftover strips and per-module areas are computed from the stored 60x150 record against this platform's 20 by 32 foot planning module for the fire and ems station building category, with 18 feet allowed for circulation. The module is editorial planning typology, not a code minimum or an engineered clearance.
- Allocation model: Zone shares come from this platform's use typology for commercial and customer-facing operations and are applied arithmetically to the stored 150-foot length.
- Allocation and layout models: Layout splits are arithmetic on the stored footprint, published as example allocation models. They are not survey findings and do not describe what buyers most often choose.
- Clearance and opening guidance: Clearance and opening statements are planning guidance. Final dimensions depend on the selected door system, header detail and the manufacturer's engineering for the building.
Methodology notes
- Prices: No price figure appears on this page. Cost data is published on this platform only with a documented inclusion basis, a collection date and a named source.
Cost drivers
Quantities that move the estimate at 60x150
The estimate at 60x150 moves with four computed quantities: 9,000 square feet of floor, 420 feet of perimeter, 5,880 square feet of wall and 9,277 square feet of roof. Everything else is site and specification. Two operations of the same size can want opposite plans, so the arithmetic below is a starting point rather than a recommendation.
Dedicated training space adds meaningfully to the footprint and its finishes beyond what the apparatus floor alone requires, and that addition is deliberate rather than incidental — it is what distinguishes this mode from a station with an apparatus floor only.
- apparatus door height and width
- drive-through bays versus reverse-in bays
- exhaust capture in the bays
- crew quarters as a separate conditioned envelope
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Plans and dimensions
Every drawing below is generated from the exact dimensions for this building, so proportions and areas are accurate.
Compare 60x150 fire and ems station building configurations
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