Canandaigua Highway Garage

Following MRB Group’s assistance with a site feasibility study for its town hall and highway campus, the Town of Canandaigua retained MRB Group’s architecture team to plan, design, and prepare construction documents for a new 40,000 sf highway garage, cold storage addition, and new fuel station.

A new, state-of-the-art, energy-efficient highway garage centralizes the town’s equipment and materials storage, bringing the town’s highway, water, and parks departments under one roof.

The new main structure includes a vehicle storage area, service bays, and administrative offices to increase the efficiency of operations. Within the structure, a garage area provides adequate space to house the town’s highway vehicles and equipment, with a dedicated wash bay and storage mezzanine. An adjacent maintenance garage provides:

• Two service bays
• Welding area
• Work/assembly area
• Delivery and storage areas
• Maintenance office

The new facility includes many sustainable building materials and features to enhance energy efficiency and lower operational costs, including continuous wall/roof insulation, clerestory windows for natural lighting, radiant-heat flooring, and energy-efficient ventilation/exhaust systems. Using a pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) also reduced construction costs and build time.

The overall design allows flexibility for future growth, including the opportunity to add square footage to the main highway garage structure in the future. The site organization was vastly improved through a programming process that focused on current operations, staff and resident needs, as well as the potential for future growth, recognizing the increasing demand for services in the Town of Canandaigua.

Big Idea

Bring the town’s highway, water, and parks departments under one roof. and allow for future growth