Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Farmington District/Field Office and Farmington Indian Minerals Office (FIMO)

Farmington, NM

The Farmington District and Field Office serves as the northwest New Mexico headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).  The facility also houses Farmington Indian Minerals Office (FIMO), a multi-agency organization that provides services to Navajo Indian mineral owners.  

A highly participatory and consensus planning and design process was utilized, holding programming and design charrettes at the site with BLM, FIMO, and City of Farmington staff.  The outcome of this process was the site selection of a preferred site, development program, project budget, schematic design plan, local and federal agency approvals and permitting, final construction documents and construction administration for the project.  The plan includes a new 40,000 square foot administration and law enforcement facility, 5,000 square foot maintenance facility, fire station, new roads and parking, pedestrian areas, outdoor storage yards, new on and off-site utilities infrastructure, stormwater infrastructure, landscaping and irrigation, site signage, and other site improvements.  The project received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified at the Gold Level. 

FiLL p.l.l.c.  principal Phil Hendricks Jr. ASLA served as the: Prime IDIQ Prime Contract Manager,  principal-in-charge, task order manager, lead site planner and landscape architect managing a large multi-disciplinary team of consultants through Title I, II and III services at a previous firm (EDAW/AECOM). The project was executed through several task orders task orders on two consecutive BLM Nationwide Architecture Engineering Services IDIQ’s.