To accommodate a booming population, the Lafayette (LA) Parish School System (LPSS) is building its first new school in almost 50 years. The 258,000 sq-ft Southside High School in Youngsville, La.—recently named Louisiana’s fastest growing city—is on a fast-track schedule to open for the 2017-18 school year. The Lemoine Co. LLC is construction manager at risk, along with design team Abell + Crozier + Davis Architects.
“This project gives us an opportunity to develop a model of high standards for all our school facilities in the parish,” says Randy Bernard, academic specialist with the Lafayette Parish School System. “We are currently upgrading several facilities and will be breaking ground on replacement schools in the near future.”