Replacing a 1950s-era school, the new John Hancock College Preparatory High School forms a community hub within Chicago’s Clearing neighborhood.

The effort to create Washington, DC’s first Net Zero Energy school was a lesson in perseverance, as the project team faced COVID-related material shortages and absenteeism, and permitting delays that shrank the original nearly two-year-long baseline schedule to just sixteen months.

Built as part of a master plan to renew the 99-year-old Santa Monica High School campus, this 260,000 sq-ft facility includes a five-story education building, two levels of subterranean parking, aquatic center with an Olympic-sized pool, rooftop solar and more.

The 10,000-sq-ft addition to the K-8 independent school includes a variety of unique learning areas for visual arts, robotics and innovation and performing arts, including a 250-seat performance space.

This elementary school addition and remodel provides creative makerspaces for students and is equipped with learning studios and lab spaces to encourage hands-on discovery and creative thinking. 

The new Pierce Park Elementary School replaces the Boise school district’s oldest elementary school, providing a 52,500-sq-ft facility that supports 400 kindergarten through sixth-grade students.

Located in a developing neighborhood, the school offers students, teachers, parents and the community an opportunity to engage in spaces that support education.

Construction method pushes the project team to innovate on new fine arts center for Plano Independent School District in Texas.

A $46-million historic renovation of the former Howard Middle School is challenging contractors.