ENR MidAtlantic Names DC Public Schools its 2015 Owner of the Year
ENR MidAtlantic named DC Public Schools its 2015 Owner of the Year. With work delivered through the DC Dept. of General Services, DC Public Schools is in the midst of a multi-billion-dollar capital program that is not only addressing long-overdue needs, it is delivering world-class K-12 public schools.
The DCPS modernization and stabilization program, which is expected to cost more than $3.5 billion, will result in more than 12 million square feet of newly constructed or renovated space. Recently, the 280,000-sq-ft Dunbar High School earned LEED Platinum certification. It achieved 91 points out of a possible 100 base points for LEED, making it the highest-scoring school in the world certified under USGBC’s LEED for Schools-New Construction system. The school, which opened in 2013, was named ENR MidAtlantic’s Best K-12 Project last year. The Dunbar project set a standard for other DCPS facilities. The recently completed Ballou High School was also designed to achieve LEED Platinum.
Major construction projects that broke ground last year include the $131.6-million Roosevelt High School modernization, the $139.2-million Duke Ellington School of the Arts modernization, the $37-million Horace Mann Elementary School modernization and the $28-million Kramer Middle School renovation.
As our Owner of the Year feature will appear in the April 27 edition of ENR MidAtlantic.
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