Title
LONGVIEW POLICE STATION REMODEL - ELEVATOR UPGRADE
COUNCIL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE ADDRESSED:
Enhance public safety and emergency response
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The Longview Police Department remodel is nearing completion and will be ready to furnish by late-February. The remodel incorporated several components necessary to bring the building into compliance with current fire code due to the additional occupied areas. Egress issues have been addressed in the building and parking garage, and a fire alarm system is being installed to provide monitoring and alarming on all three levels. In accordance with code, the new fire alarm system is designed to override certain elevator functions such that the elevator car will automatically recall itself to an alternate floor if heat/smoke is detected, or upon loss of power. However, the elevator is original to the 1968 building and too old to be integrated with the fire system.
Because the second floor of the LPD building exceeds 3000 SF, and due to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements, building code requires a working elevator. And because the elevator travels more than 25-feet, the code requires emergency recall capability. To provide recall, the elevator must be modernized so it can be integrated with the fire system.
ThyssenKrupp, an elevator installation, repair, and maintenance specialty firm, provided a proposal to modernize the elevator with a new power unit, elevator doors with infrared detectors, pushbutton panels, emergency lighting, ADA phone system, leveling system and landing unit, (for slowing down and stopping in the hoistway), overspeed device (for seismic safety) and controller which will interface with the fire system. Additional items of work include required to lighting, ventilation and electrical safety in the elevator mechanical room, pit, and hoistway. These improvements are entirely functional and code related and do not include any aesthetic or ambiance related a...
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