Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP), a national, family-owned construction management and contracting company, started construction on an expansion project for the City of Round Rock on its existing public safety facility in support of the city’s fire and police departments.
Located at 2801 N. Mays St., the Round Rock Public Safety Training Center construction will include expansion to the main administration building, a new stand-alone classroom building, police and fire equipment storage, an emergency vehicle operations course, a heavy-duty skills pad area, an observation tower and a backup emergency generator. The project is slated for completion in early 2027.
“AP recognizes the significance of this expansion for the City of Round Rock and its residents, and we take this assignment very seriously,” said Eric Churchill, Vice President of Central Texas. “The improvements planned will provide much-needed educational and practical training opportunities for the fire and police departments to help bolster the quality of the city’s first responders.”
The 6,602 square-foot main building expansion will add over 6,000 square feet of meeting room space and additional room for fire training personnel. A new 4,700 square-foot classroom building will consist of two classrooms, with restrooms, storage and a kitchenette. An additional skills pad will provide a dedicated space for the fire department to conduct extrication exercises.
The Round Rock Public Safety Training Center Enhancement Phase 2 Project was approved in a 2023 bond election. The training center, which first opened in 2018, serves both the city’s fire and police departments and features classrooms, an indoor tactical firing range, defensive tactics area, scenario-training structures (including a five-story burn tower), outdoor skills pads and specialized props such as a fuel-spill site.
The building’s original architect, Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, designed the project expansion.
AP’s Central Texas office recently broke ground on two Austin ISD high schools, and Heritage Oaks Dental Office in Marble Falls, along with the recently completed expansion of the Emergency Room at San Antonio’s Methodist Landmark Hospital and Round Rock’s Sunrise Commerce Center.
In its 25 years in the Texas market, AP has worked with several municipalities, including the current construction of the East Dallas Government Center for Dallas County. Additional current and past projects include Rockwall County Jail, the Garland Audubon Recreation Center, the Stephen G. Terrell Recreation Center in Allen, the Marq for the City of Southlake, multiple facilities for the Town of Little Elm, and the SportsPark Center and The Reecy Davis Center with the city of Greenville.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, AP is working on the new KDFW studio and office facility and phase two of the Santander Tower conversion project in downtown Dallas. Other notable completed projects include an addition and renovation at Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas, PGA of America headquarters in Frisco, Vari’s global headquarters with VariSpace Coppell, and Buildings 17 and 18 at Billingsley Company’s International Business Park in Plano.
About Adolfson & Peterson Construction
Adolfson & Peterson Construction (AP) is a leading national construction management firm consistently ranked as a Top 100 Contractor by Engineering News Record (ENR). For more than 75 years nationally and 25 years in the Texas market, AP has remained a trusted family-owned business known for quality, reliability and strong partner relationships while maintaining a solid safety record. The company offers preconstruction, construction and contracting services to the commercial, education, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, mission-critical, multifamily, municipal, recreation and senior living market segments. It currently employs more than 800 team members and thousands of trade partners in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. Find more information at www.a-p.com. AP is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
