The first of five new fire stations delivered under a PFI Agreement with Stoke & Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Authority.

This project was undertaken within a live campus on the disused tennis courts of a sports college and was surrounded by residential apartments. The key to the success of this project was therefore the strong relationships built with both the College and the Housing Association.

As the first of ten fire stations, five of which were delivered by Stepnell, Rising Brook was to set the quality benchmark for all other stations to achieve. The fire station was designed with state of the art operational facilities, and to allow for integration within the community by way of its dedicated community facilities.

The building’s structure comprises a steel portal frame supporting a composite profiled metal deck upper floor of reinforced concrete slab with elevations of rainscreen, aluminium and curtain wall cladding and brick infill panels.