Writing & Speaking

Articles and Books

"Fire Station: Architectural Insight to Planning, Design and Construction" - Dennis A. Ross (DAR) and David J. Pacheco (DJP) co-authored the opening chapter, IAFC Foundation, 2010

"Gear at the Ready" [PDF] - (DAR) STATIONSTYLE online by Fire Chief Magazine June 16, 2009

"Anatomy of a Training Tower" [PDF] - (DJP) Fire Chief Magazine, April, 2006

"Chief Fire Officer's Desk Reference" - International Association of Fire Chiefs and Jones & Bartlett Publishers. In 2005 the Partners of Pacheco Ross Architects, P.C. (PRA) Dennis A. Ross and David J. Pacheco co-authored the chapter guiding the Fire Chief through the process of Fire Station Feasibility, Design, Budgets and Construction. This cutting-edge book has been designed to be a roadmap to success for chief officers and aspiring chief officers.

"Bay of Rigs" [PDF] - (DAR) Fire Chief Magazine, November, 2005

"Fire Station Site Selection" - (DAR) Fire Chief Magazine, May, 2004

"The Firehouse That Bonds Built" [PDF] - (DAR) Fire Chief Magazine, November, 2001

Speaking & Symposiums

Presenter (multiple subjects) (DAR) "National Symposium on Fire Station Design" Fire Industry Equipment Research Organization (F.I.E.R.O.), Charlotte, NC 2002-2011, and scheduled for 2012.

Presenters and Panel Member (multiple subjects) (DAR & DFP) Fire Chief Magazine "Station Style Design Symposium" 2006-2011, and scheduled for 2012.

PRA is one of only two firms in the USA selected to host every year of the Fire Chief Magazine Station Style Pre-Conference Fire Station Design Symposium since its inception in 2006. In addition to presenting at the Symposium, we were the organizers of the 2008 and 2009 Pre-Conference Design Symposium "An Incident Command Approach to Design". Scheduled for 2012.

Panel Member (DAR) Build Boston, "Entering New Markets", Boston Society of Architects/AIA, November 2006.