Combining three older school buildings into a single, modern learning space was the goal of the $19.6-million Norman-Sims Elementary project in Austin.
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.
Turning an abandoned Kmart into a school for 400 underserved students when another site fell through was a tall order for JGMA and McShane Construction.
The school’s core 331,000-sq-ft academic building is oriented around four 360-student academies that focus on agricultural, vocational and technical education.
Former Charles County, Md., Public Schools Superintendent James Richmond long envisioned a science-focused outer space-themed high school in the town of Waldorf, but for several years it looked like the project would never leave the launch pad.
To build Gwinnett County, Ga.’s 664,000-sq-ft Discovery High School—all under one roof—contractor Carroll Daniel Construction Co. had to transform a 90-acre site that contained an old tire warehouse.
In only 25 months over the course of two school years, Robins & Morton orchestrated the $39-million, 210,000-sq-ft phased renovation and expansion of Opelika High School.