West Ox Bus Operations and Maintenance Facility
Location: Fairfax, VA
Owner: Hank Houde
Architect: Baker & Associates
Delivery: Design/Bid/Build
Award: 2008 Capital Construction Award of Excellence from the Department of Public Works and Environmental Services for this job for providing superior coordination and construction of the project, as well as meeting and exceeding the project goals of quality, timeliness and budget.
The West Ox Bus Operations facility is a partnership among Fairfax County, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The complex encompasses three buildings including a 26,476 SF service building, a 43,266 SF maintenance facility, and a 14,929 SF administration building. The facility is designed to store and maintain a fleet of 175 buses of which 100 are allocated to Metrobus and 75 are allocated to the FAIRFAX CONNECTOR.
The West Ox Bus Operations Facility is a jointly shared facility, used by both the Fairfax County Connector Transit System and the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (Metro). This $32 million facility consisted of constructing 3 separate buildings on a 30 acre site, including parking lots to accommodate 175 full-size buses and 270 employees’ parking spaces. All 3 buildings are 20 hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week operations that provide full-service maintenance and repair of buses in the Metropolitan area, as well as driver training and driver administration areas.
The 14,928 SF Administration building consists of dispatch offices, training and administration offices as well as driver kitchen, dining, and lounge areas, and driver showers, restrooms and locker rooms.
The 43,266 SF Maintenance building consists of 16 full-size bus bays complete with lifts, lubrication and fluid reels, tires, parts and battery storage rooms, administration offices, locker and shower facilities and training rooms.
The 27,476 SF Service Building houses 2 full-size, automatic drive-through bus washes, a bay with lift and hot water pressure wash system for undercarriages, industrial vacuum and interior cleaning stations, and interior and exterior fuel service islands.
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