Projects in the News
Western States Fire to install fire systems at the Winspear Opera House
Western States Fire Protection's Dallas team will design and install the fire protection systems for the Winspear Opera House located in Dallas, Texas. Systems include standpipes, wet, dry, and preaction fire sprinkler systems with 2,543 sprinkler heads along with special noise and vibration require...» Learn more
Western States Fire Protection installs Fire Sprinkler Systems for Data Storage Facility
Western States Fire Protection received notice May 1, 2006 to install a fire sprinkler system in Microsoft's data storage facility in Quincy, Washington. Microsoft is constructing several large data storage facilities around the country with Quincy as their first stop. Quincy is a farming town in Central Washington, located hundreds of miles from Microsoft's home office in Redmond. Originally a potato producing community, and town with only two stop lights, Quincy is quickly becoming a silicon community with the new Yahoo facility a mile away from the Microsoft sit...» Learn more
Western States Fire Protection Installs fire sprinkler systems for Nebraska Furniture Mart's addition
Western States Fire Protection Company has just finished installing a wet pipe sprinkler system in Nebraska Furniture Mart's Kansas City, Kansas store. Joe DePriest and his crew of up to five people worked hard to get this project done in less than six months.
The 357,505 square foot warehous...» Learn more
Western States Fire completes Colorado Convention Center expansion
Western States Fire Protection Company installed an automatic fire sprinkler system for the Colorado Convention Center Phase II Expansion. This 285 million dollar project doubled the size of the Convention Center, adding approximately 1,400,000 square feet of new space and transformed the building into a landmark that represents a gateway to downtown Denver. The project was completed in January 2005.
The expansion includes:
New 1,000-space parking garage.
New 5,000 fixed-seat auditorium.
New 50,000 square foot ballroom.
Existing exhibit hall increased from 290,000 to 600,000 square feet that can be divided into blocks of space according to the needs of the event.
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Additional Projects
Arizona
- Glendale Spring Training Baseball Stadium (Goodyear, AZ). http://camelbackranchbaseball.com/
- Talking Stick Resort (Scottsdale, AZ) - newest addition to Casino Arizona Resort & Spa, an enterprise of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. http://talkingstickresort.com/
California
- L.A. Live Hotel & Residences (Los Angeles, CA) - 57 Story High-Rise Hotel and Condominium project in downtown Los Angeles. http://www.lalive.com/
- Westfield Roseville Mall (Roseville, CA) – mall expansion, 850,000 square feet
- Red Hawk Casino (Placerville, CA) - new 300,000 square foot, three story casino. http://www.redhawkcasino.com/
Colorado
- Vestas Wind Turbine Tower Manufacturing Campus (Pueblo, CO) - once complete in mid-2009, the tower manufacturing campus will be the largest of its kind in the world
- CETF - Consolidated Education and Training Facility (United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO) – retrofit of existing sprinkler systems
- Coors Field (Denver, CO) – baseball stadium…home of the Colorado Rockies seats 50,000, with stunning views of city skyscrapers and 14,000-foot peaks has been called "the most beautiful stadium in baseball." http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/coorsf.htm
- Pepsi Center (Denver, CO) - the Pepsi Center is home to the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Crush and Colorado Mammoth. This 675,000 square foot venue features a 5 level arena, private and public dining spaces and just about anything else a fan or visitor could dream of.http://www.pepsicenter.com/
Kansas
- Nebraska Furniture Mart (Kansas City, KS) – 350,000 square foot warehouse addition with multi-row rack storage
Missouri
- Pfizer (Chesterfield, MO) - bldg AA & BB pipe replacement project…50,000 sq. ft. total
- Chillicothe Correctional Center (Chillicothe, MO) - female correctional facility consisting of 14 buildings
- Monsanto (Creve Coeur, MO) – world headquarters campus retrofit
Montana
- Old Faithful Lodge (Yellowstone National Park) - demolition of deteriorated black steel pipe on dry systems and reinstallation with new galvanized pipe within 1/3rd of the structure built in 1923; work was performed during the winter which required us to stay on site during the week and snow coach in and out
- University of Montana Grizzly Stadium - installed new antifreeze sprinkler system to a 2000-seat addition. http://www.egriz.com/washingtongrizzlystadium.php
Nevada
- Wynn Casino (Las Vegas, NV) – one of Las Vegas’ crown jewels
- Aliante Station Hotel and Casino (North Las Vegas, NV) – a complete entertainment complex
- Wynn Mountain (Las Vegas, NV) – an unprecedented accomplishment, protection of a forest on a large man made mountain
New Mexico
- Albuquerque Studios (Albuquerque, NM) - state of the art movie production studios consisting of 500,000 square feet of indoor space. http://www.abqstudios.com/
- Thornburg Campus (Santa Fe, NM) - corporate headquarters for the Thornburg
Oregon
- HQP2 - Port of Portland Headquarter Office Building and Parking Structure (Portland, OR)
- Sacred Heart Medical Center (Springfield, OR)
South Dakota
- CDC Laboratory (Fort Collins, CO) - new research laboratory…entirely 3-D coordinated
- WDOC Medium Security Correctional Institution (Torrington, WY) - new 335,000sq. ft. correctional facility
Texas
- Winspear Opera House (Dallas, TX) - new construction of architecturally intricate opera house and performance facility in the developing ‘Arts District’ of Downtown Dallas.
- Bank of America Expansion (Dallas, TX) - this work included four separate facilities in the Dallas / Ft Worth region and over 400,000 sq. ft. of recent tenant improvement.
- Brigade Combat Team Complex (Ft. Bliss – El Paso, TX) – 42 buildings totaling over 1.5 million square feet
- CAB Hangars (Ft. Bliss – El Paso, TX) - 4 helicopter hangar buildings with a total of 553,000 sq. ft….home to many Blackhawk, Apache, and Chinook helicopters.
- Mosaic Towers (Houston, TX) – twin 30-story residential high-rise complex
- Baylor College of Medicine Ambulatory Surgery Center (Houston, TX) – new one million square foot hospital in the Texas Medical Center
- Conoco Phillips Loading Rack AFFF Foam System (Mt Pleasant, TX) - retrofit of AFFF foam disbursement system protecting petroleum loading rack facility.
- Broadway Condominiums (San Antonio, TX) – new 23 floor high rise condominium
- University of Texas - Health Science Center Medical School - sprinkler retrofit of an existing medical school facility
- Jester Hall (University of Texas, Austin, TX) – largest dorm retrofit in North America
Washington
- FY07 Brigade Complex (Ft Lewis, WA) - a LEED silver, design-build new construction and addition project for a 600-man barracks, battalion headquarters, and RSU building addition
- University of Idaho Kibbie Dome (Moscow, ID) - life safety upgrades to 30 year old collegiate indoor football stadium. Retrofit sprinkler systems in attic of dome
- Microsoft Live Data Center (Quincy, WA) – 500,000 sq. ft. data storage complex
- Aspira Tower (Seattle, WA) – 37-story mixed use high rise in downtown Seattle