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COVER LETTER June 30, 2014 City Clerk City of Lino Lakes 600 Town Center Parkway Lino Lakes, MN 55014 Re: Request for Proposal - Lino Lakes Fire House #2 Architectural/Engineering Consulting Services Dear Selection Committee, On behalf of CNH Architects, thank you for considering our firm for your Fire House project and selecting our team to interview. CNH has been providing architectural and engineering services for City, County, and State projects for over 50 years. We look forward to the chance to work with the City of Lino Lakes as you develop the new fire department. Our office excels at working on public projects and building consensus within the members of the committee representing the various users of the facility. Our goal is to listen to the City of Lino Lakes, add our expertise, and be sensitive to the direction set by the staff and council. Our proposal will describe the following attributes we will bring to your project: FIRM BACKGROUND CNH Architects is headed by two principal architects with over 50 years of experience running very successful projects. Our extensive experience includes many fire stations, fire training features, burn buildings and other public safety facilities. CNH Architects is a mid-sized architectural firm, which allows the principal architect leading each project to maintain daily involvement in all phases of the process. EXPERIENCE AND REFERENCES Along with providing architectural/engineering services for various municipalities with their fire house buildings, CNH Architects has designed well- received projects in each of the following categories: City Halls, Police Departments, Libraries, Senior Centers, Burn Training Buildings, Vehicle Facilities and Community Centers. In addition, CNH Architects has developed a close working relationship with David Acomb, a nationally known public safety design consultant who brings cutting edge fire station and training feature knowledge to our team. Whether it is the most recent updates being considered by NFPA or cost saving facility and training design options, we have found that David's input brings unparalleled value to our design team and our fire department clients. Specifically for Lino Lakes, the depth of experience will enable faster decisions made with the confidence of the breadth of experience our team brings. The worth of this experienced collaboration has been regularly mentioned as being above and beyond our past clients' expectations, as our references will attest. PROJECT APPROACH The best way to summarize our approach to projects is that we work cooperatively with our clients to reach the best solution specific to their needs. With the City of Lino Lakes, we will listen carefully to your needs and goals, and then develop many design options looking at different ways to maximize the project. Whether we are reviewing site options, developing schematic design plans and 3D images, or reviewing operational efficiency CNH Architects, Inc. 7300 West 147th Street Suite 504 Apple Valley, MN 55124 Phone 952-431-4433 www.cnharch.com