Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Station 9

Station 9 consolidates two aging fire-paramedic stations into one $16-million facility in Windsor Park, with five apparatus bays, quarters for two shifts of twelve, and the City of Winnipeg's first geothermal ground source heat pump plant. BPL supplied that plant: sixteen water-to-air heat pumps conditioning the building zone by zone, a water-to-water heat pump making domestic hot water off the same ground loop, and a single 399 MBH condensing boiler standing behind it as backup. A fire hall is a hard building to condition. It runs around the clock, the bay doors open onto a Winnipeg January several times a day, and diesel apparatus comes and goes at all hours — which is why the vehicle exhaust extraction system matters as much as the plant behind it.

Equipment supplied by BPL Sales:
- 16 × Water-to-air heat pumps — geothermal ground source, extended range, zone by zone through the building
- 1 × Water-to-water heat pump — domestic hot water off the same ground loop
- 1 × Condensing fire-tube boiler and a custom flue venting package
- 5 × Inline pumps — two with integral VFDs, two stainless for domestic hot water
- 3 × Expansion tanks and a coalescing air/dirt separator
- 2 × Gas-fired unit heaters
1 × Hydronic heating coil
- Vehicle exhaust extraction system for the apparatus bays — supplied through BPL, installed by the City
- Valve packages for every heat pump

Closing note:
All seventeen heat pumps and the boiler were started up by BPL's own factory-trained and certified technicians, in one February commissioning campaign at Winnipeg winter design conditions — the only honest time to prove a ground source plant. Formal start-up reports were issued for every unit, and BPL stayed on site through the following year to see the equipment properly integrated to the City's building automation system. The vehicle exhaust capture is supplied through BPL and installed by the City's own crews — a standing arrangement across Winnipeg's stations rather than a one-off on this job. The crews who work out of the building were trained by the same team that commissioned it.