How to Select an Architect
FIRE DEPARTMENTS, in essence, consist of men and apparatus. Any of us will go along with the head of a fire department who says that all he wants to do is put out fires and be let alone. However, life can’t be that simple for him. To carry out his work he must have stations to house his men and apparatus. This puts him into an unexpected and not always gratifying association with city eouncilmen, architects, politics, budgets, engineers and change orders. At the worst, this can also include legal entanglements from which it is possible to emerge with lumps.
The fire chief is not the legal backstop in the planning and building of a station, but he is the immediate heir of all that results from the processes of acquiring one. Good or bad, he has to live with and work with a station and whatever controversies its acquisition generates. Yet, he is fortunate in many cases to have much of a voice in what kind of a building he gets. Under such procedures, and they are more widespread than many laymen realize, a chief’s best friend may be a competent architect.
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