Clients & Projects

Municipal Office Building

• The Town of Kill Devil Hills Departments of Taxation/Finance, Police, and Planning/Inspections were scattered among four different structures in the former municipal complex, and the Town desired to unite these functions into one 10,500 municipal office building for centralized operation.

• A site analysis of prospective sites determined optimum building location, interviewed each department for programming and space planning, design and develop construction documents, and manage the project through completion of construction.

• The new 10,500 sf office building merged with the current 7,800 sf Town Administration office, into a new campus-like Town Hall providing a centralized location for citizen interaction with the Town government. A corner of the building is “hinged” to the existing building, to form a public courtyard entrance.

• Police functions include administration, records, patrol and crime investigations divisions, and evidence storage, processing and holding cell functions. Other departments include areas for plan-file storage, permitting, bill-paying and taxation, and a central computing system for the Town.

• This two-story building includes an elevator and is fully ADA-compliant. The building houses the Town’s FEMA coordinator for emergencies, and is designed to State Coastal and Floodplain Construction Standards, to accommodate weather events and severe elements customary to the Outer Banks region. All building circuits are served by emergency generator backup power, due to frequent area outages.

• The exterior of the building was designed to recall the local architectural style of the Outer Banks, and the layout of building and parking areas were specifically positioned to retain as much of the site’s sparse but hardy vegetation as possible.

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