Squeezed into a narrow tract of land 1,000 ft from the Mississippi River, the team building the $39-million New Brusly High School faced four hurricanes, 10 months of historically high river levels and a tornado that destroyed their structural steel fabricator’s shop. All of that was before COVID-19 introduced an entirely new set of challenges.
With rising river levels sending veins of underground water through the rear of the site, the team responded quickly with changes to the civil design.