24-Hour Occupancy for Firefighters, Safety for an Entire Community Fire Station No. 8 consists of a 12,455 SF facility with four apparatus bays with front and back entrances, powered by automatic 4-fold sliding doors. The facility also includes kitchen and living areas, public lobby and office, men and women’s bunk rooms, commander’s office, laundry area, […]

Annexation of 5,000 Acre Tract Infrastructure Systems in Richmond Hills, GA Since 2016, Hussey Gay Bell has been leading the planning and design of all infrastructure necessary to support this 5,000 acre tract annexed by the City of Richmond Hill in 2017.  This massive fast-track infrastructure project has been broken into three (3) planning, design […]

Recreation Gym at the Clarence E. Morgan Central Recreation Complex In 2015, Effingham County commenced master planning efforts on a long-desired 120-acre recreation complex to be located on the west side of Highway 21 in Springfield, Georgia.  Designed by CHA in collaboration with Hussey Gay Bell, Phase I scope consisted of five baseball fields, walking […]

A 50,000 SF Public Safety Complex for a Community Designed by Hussey Gay Bell, this facility was constructed for the Forsyth County Emergency Services Department. The 50,000 SF Public Safety Complex is built on a 7-acre site and houses two separate buildings, a Public Safety Building and Fire Station #12. The Public Safety Building is […]

120-Acres of Recreational Fun Phase I of the complex project consisted of the planning, design and construction of a portion of the 120-acre county recreation park located off of State Route 21 in Springfield, Georgia including two baseball fields, three softball fields, a walking trail, and associated site improvements. Additionally, a new 25,000 SF gym […]

Play Here, No Matter the Sport Hussey Gay Bell, in association with Wood+Partners, Inc., completed the master planning for 8 Oaks Regional Park consisting of a nine-baseball field tournament complex, ten tennis courts, four soccer/multi-purpose fields, skate park, playground, pool, camping facilities and recreational trails on a 360-acre site. Phase I has been completed and […]

Gold Mines, History & a 16-Mile Trail Many of the initial settlers of Sugar Hill were gold miners and many of these miners mined from Sugar Hill all the way to the Chattahoochee River. As a celebration of this heritage, the City of Sugar Hill is redeveloped 440 Level Creek Road for use as a […]

3rd Brigade Military Police Battalion Headquarters and Classroom Building The 3rd Brigade’s Military Police Battalion Headquarters and Classroom Building consists of a two-story, 12,586 SF headquarters building. It was constructed using a standing seam metal roof, concrete floors, steel stud/gypsum board interior wall system, a non-load bearing steel stud brick veneer exterior wall system. Interior […]

Consolidated Maintenance Facility with Dynamometer Building This task order consisted of three projects as follows: Consolidated Maintenance Building: This new building consists of a building area of 73,367 SF with large and small maintenance and repair bays, clean rooms, various types of repair shops, tool rooms, fuel and electric repair, fuel parts test, wood shop, […]

Renovating Campus Buildings As the Prime, Hussey Gay Bell is providing architectural, civil and structural services for the repurpose of 6 existing buildings and a new dining facility in the 17-acre YCA campus at Fort Gordon. Hussey Gay Bell team’s efforts for the project are to help the GSFIC and the Youth Challenge Academy reach […]

Hall County Fire Station No. 1, the prototype fire station of Hall County The project consists of the design and construction of the new Hall County Fire Station No. 1 located at 3152 Gillsville Highway, on a county-owned site that was formerly Tadmore Park. This 8,141-square-foot, 3-bay new fire station facility is designed as a […]

A Coastal Healthcare Facility Designed to Serve Veterans Hussey Gay Bell served as the Architect of Record for this 2-story, 71,000 SF Outpatient Clinic located in Anderson, South Carolina designed for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The 12-acre site includes a covered patient drop-off area, parking areas for patients and staff, as well as […]

Fly Army! A New Addition to the Existing 15th ASOS Complex This project consisted of the preparation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an Air Support Operations Center (ASOC). This new facility has a 16,002 SF Administration Building and 8,586 SF Vehicle Storage Building. It is integrated into the existing 15th Air Support Operations […]

A First-Class Arena Takes Shape In Savannah’s Canal District As the largest capital expenditure in the City’s history, the Enmarket Arena project represents the culmination of nearly 20 years of efforts to construct a first-class, sustainable arena that provides a flexible and usable sports and entertainment venue to the public.  Originally funded by the City’s […]

Natural Gas System Improvements to Strengthen Distribution System The Phase III Natural Gas System Improvements project provides service to previously unserved areas within the City of Portland and Sumner County, while providing reduced pressure drops and improved operating capabilities with looping of the system, taking into consideration the system’s existing capacity and future growth demand. […]

Fort Stewart Elementary School (Kessler Elementary School) Project consisted of the construction of a new pre-kindergarten through 6th grade elementary school to serve 400 students, which was required at Fort Stewart to accommodate enrollment increases due to new housing being built for the Army’s Residential Communities Initiative. The new elementary school is a one-story 80,788 […]

Sheriff’s Office Makes Impact for Generations to Come Hussey Gay Bell served as the Architect of Record for this project, which consisted of the design and construction of a new administrative headquarters building constructed on the 33-acre Government Center campus on Browns Bridge Road in Gainesville, Georgia. Approximately $5 million was budgeted out of SPLOST […]

Lift Station 23 Upgrades, Force Main & HDD Under a separate contract, yet in tandem with the design and construction of the city’s $165 million Enmarket Arena, Hussey Gay Bell was contracted to design the Lift Station 23 Upgrades & Force Main Replacement project to increase capacity in the project area. The project consisted of […]

A 5,000-Seat Stadium for a Community Project scope consisted of the conceptual design/master planning and design of a new stadium that replaced the existing antiquated reinforced concrete stadium structure, built in 1957. The facility is primarily used by Chatham County high schools. The new structure includes seating capacity for 5,000; end zone building with team […]

Tomochichi U.S. Courthouse Annex Congress appropriated funding for this project in 2016 as part of an overall $947M Courthouse Investment Plan to modernize this entire judicial complex in historic Savannah to meet current and long-term needs for security, accessibility and operational efficiency. The initial design featured a more modern design that would have transected an […]

A Historic Renovation Preserves Original Witcover Architecture Scope of work consisted of the complete exterior and interior restoration of the original old 1908 courthouse. Due to the historical significance of the building, the Design-Build team of J.T. Turner Construction, Hussey Gay Bell and Greenline Architecture analyzed the architectural character of the building and followed the […]

A New 17,000 SF Fire Station, 24/7, Self-Contained Facility Project consists of a new 2-story, 3-bay fire station at 135 Johnson Ferry Road NE in Sandy Springs, Georgia. The new fire station replaces Fire Station No. 2 located on the property, which was built in 1969 and no longer met space needs for crew, apparatus […]

A Seamless Blend of Low Country Charm & Public Safety For this $2.8M Design-Bid-Build project, Hussey Gay Bell provided professional architectural and engineering services for this new facility which consists of a 10,000 SF, two-story, fire station on a 1.2-acre parcel. The building is located at the front of the site as required by the […]

Joint-Use Public Safety Facility: Designed to Withstand Disasters The City of Savannah selected Hussey Gay Bell to provide design services for a new Public Safety Building located on Hutchinson Island. The new building is planned to be located on two adjacent lots by Resort Drive and Grand Prize of America Avenue – together the parcels […]

Proud to Work for the Georgia Army National Guard This project consisted of permanent vertical construction and general site-work.  The project was planned to be constructed in two separate phases, dependent upon the funding of each phase.  Phase 1 site design included a MATES (Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site) facility composed of three separate buildings […]

Urban Assault Course and Shoot House The Urban Assault Course consisted of a new facility with five training stations (Individual Team Trainer, a Squad Trainer, a Gredadier Gunnery Trainer, an Offense/Defense Building, and an Underground Trainer), an operations/storage building, an observation tower and a latrine facility. Realistic, reconfigurable human targetry, both combatant and non-combatant, with […]

One-Stop, Multiple Resources for a Historic Community Scope of work consisted of the relocation and consolidation of multiple government facilities to a City-owned property at 14 Interchange Court in Savannah, Georgia. Designer of Record, Hussey Gay Bell services included all aspects of site and architectural planning and design including perimeter fencing, site security, parking areas […]

Rerouted GA Highway 38 & 119 Leads to the New Main Entry Gate and Visitors Center The project consisted of establishing a new main entry gate location into Fort Stewart and was designed to comply with the Army standard design for Access Control Points. For the project, existing Georgia Highways 119 and 38 were demolished […]

Toombs County Courthouse and Detention Center The project consisted of the development of a feasibility study for the Toombs County Courthouse and Detention Center, which provided the Toombs County Commission with the most viable option to develop a Courthouse and Detention Center to house all court functions and all County administrative offices, as well as […]

A New 5-Bay, 2-Story, 25,000 SF Fire Station Project consists of the construction of a new, 2-story fire station on the lot adjacent to the existing fire station located at the corner of Liberty Street and South Commerce Street. The selected option is to build a new fire station, to move the old station functions […]

84,000 SF Jail Delivers Increased Efficiency & Security Hussey Gay Bell as part of the Design-Build team of R.J. Griffin, Rives Worrell and Rosser International was responsible for design and construction of the new 84,000 SF, 332-bed, Effingham County Jail. The project was made possible through SPLOST with a total cost of $16.4 million including […]

A Fast Track Design, an Impressive Result This Design-Build project consisted of a design and construction of a 30,500 SF functional dining facility. The facility is similar to a college or university cafeteria in general function and quality providing receiving, storage, preparation, serving, queuing, dining, dishwashing, and equipment needed for appropriate food service and eating […]

A Case in Moisture Infiltration Reduction in 1.2M SF if Military Housing The Volar Barracks Moisture Infiltration Reduction Project consisted of the implementation of several strategies to reduce moisture infiltration in thirty Volar Barracks complex buildings, 1,200,000 SF total space. Originally built in the mid-seventies, all are three stories and range in size from 35,775 […]

Narrowing the Gap Between County Services In 2016, Hussey Gay Bell was selected to provide site selection, programming, cost estimating and conceptual design services for the County’s proposed Administrative Complex in an effort to centralize County services. The Effingham County Board of Commissioners currently operates close to 80 sites for the citizens of Effingham County. […]

30,000 SF Dedicated to Serving the Southern Portion of Bryan County Hussey Gay Bell designed this 30,000 SF building to house multiple county and state agencies. Some of the spaces include a County Commissioner’s Meeting Room, Planning and Zoning Offices, Department of Family and Children Services Offices, Magistrate Court, Probate Court, County Engineering, Tax Commissioner […]

Hall County enhances emergency services The project consists of a new, 12,000-square-foot, 1-story, pre-engineered metal building warehouse to serve as a centralized emergency services supply, administration and storage facility for Hall County Emergency Services. The facility includes an interior conditioned office and medical storage space of approximately 4,200 square feet.  The warehouse/storage space for Fire […]

A Challenging Terrain: 334 Acres of Survey Delivered The topographic survey was performed in an approximately 334 acre area. Survey data included existing topography, spot elevations, any bordering/adjacent roads and streets, trails, trees/tree lines, waterways, existing structures, utility lines, and other site features. The survey area had both developed and undeveloped portions. The survey located […]

Expansion to Double Capacity The Savannah Convention Center (SCC) is located on Hutchinson Island across the river from the Downtown Savannah Landmark Historic District. The existing facility opened in 2000 with 100,000 SF of exhibit space, 13 meeting rooms, a 42,000 SF ballroom, a 367-seat auditorium and four boardrooms. The SCC is experiencing growth in […]

A Facility Centered around Resources In 2015, the Design-Build team of Hussey Gay Bell/JE Dunn Construction was selected to plan, design and construct the City of Savannah’s new two-story Neighborhood Resource Center located on approximately 1.07 acres west of Pennsylvania Avenue, between Clemson Street and Elgin Street. The new facility was designed to function as […]

A Facility for Soldiers & Their Families This 1-story, 32,000 SF Outpatient Clinic located in Hinesville, Georgia was designed for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The 7-acre site includes a covered patient drop-off area, parking areas for patients and staff, as well as a wellness-walking trail. The clinic was designed to house four separate […]

A Regional Symbol in the Trend Towards New Urbanism While the very nature of this project implies creativity in and adhere to neoclassical architectural design, from multiple parcels and PIN numbers, underground storage tanks, utility conflicts, an occupied site and limited access and parking to siting a critical facility around contaminated soils, this project literally […]

New Police Precinct Creates Visual Pillar of Public Safety The new Savannah Police Department Central Precinct is located on a 1.6-acre site between Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and Montgomery Street at 33rd and 34th Streets – the most densely populated area in the City of Savannah. Paid through SPLOST funding, this 13,300 SF multi-purpose […]

Natural Gas Extension to Serve Gadsden and Surrounding Area The Crockett Public Utility District Natural Gas Extension to the Town of Gadsden has made high quality natural gas service available to approximately 250 potential new customers including an elementary school, a cotton gin, churches and residences, providing significant savings and convenience when compared to alternate […]