Case study - Two emergency facilities that had to share a building

Two services, one plan

Fire and police stations are usually separate buildings for good reasons. They have different response patterns, different vehicle movements, different security requirements and different relationships with the public. A fire appliance needs an unobstructed run to the road. A custody suite needs the opposite of that.

Integrating both into one facility means resolving those conflicts in plan rather than deferring them to operations. Where the two services share — welfare, training, plant, parking — and where they must be entirely separate. Which entrance the public uses, and which they must never find.

Designed as a pair

Two stations at 3,563 m² and 3,297 m², designed together. Close enough in scope that a common approach was justified, different enough in site and requirement that neither was a copy of the other.

Design responsibility at Dar Al Riyadh

Peet led the design of these public safety assets at Dar Al Riyadh in 2023, through Stages 3B to 3D. His later appointment as Senior Manager at NEOM ran from December 2023 to February 2026.

When the Oxagon project subsequently came to him for review at NEOM, he delegated the review to avoid a conflict of interest with his earlier design involvement. His NEOM responsibilities focused on Stage 1 and 2 reviews, design governance, feasibility, quality assurance, framework consultants, standard operating procedures and AI-assisted review workflows.