The First Responders Technology Park project represents an innovative and forward-thinking effort by lawmakers to consolidate and relocate First Responder training and response facilities out of inundation zones in a joint-use campus. Students engaged city and state stakeholders including Honolulu Police Department, Honolulu Fire Department, Hawaiʻi National Guard, Youth Challenge Academy, Office of Enterprise Technology Systems, Department of Accounting and General Services, Emergency Medical System, Department of Public Safety, Sheriff and Hawaiʻi Technology Development Corporation in programming and master planning workshops to produce a proof of concept design for the overall planning and placemaking objectives for the site.

Client: Hawaiʻi Technology Development Corporation
Principal Investigator: Cathi Ho Schar FAIA
Student Team: Keola Annino, Christopher Gaydosh, Glenn Grande, Kristoffer Jugueta, Catherine Kenjo, Elliot Lazo, Melise Nekoba, Christopher Songvilay
Project date: Fall 2016-Spring 2017