Tasked with rebuilding a historic Tampa elementary school that was nearly destroyed in 2017 by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irma and ensuing fire, contractor JE Dunn Construction Co. and architect Fleishman Garcia began a painstaking effort to revive the early 1900s-era brick building into a modern facility. 

New school features bright, daylit spaces designed and built through careful collaboration.

The project team on this $138-million multi-building high school achieved an exemplary safety record with no lost-time incidents and delivered the project under budget two months ahead of schedule in May 2020 despite materials and workforce issues resulting from COVID-19. 

The new school, which has 1,360 students, was designed to support a STEAM-based curriculum that includes “learning pods, flexible project areas, makerspaces and tech shops including a woodshop, broadcast studio, coding and web/graphic design lab and 3D design and computer-aided design labs,” according to the project team.

The 12-story, 89,000-sq-ft building provides needed space for the growing school’s programs while also establishing a new campus gateway.

Italian piazzas inspire the layout of this three-story, 124,000-sq-ft K-8 replacement school.

When Hurricane Irma slammed into Tampa Bay in September 2017, it nearly destroyed a local historic elementary school in Tampa Heights—the city’s oldest suburb.

Following the completion of the first phase in 2011, the second phase of work on this Las Vegas campus added an administration building, a health sciences building, an information technologies building and a culinary and educational building with the only high school-operated restaurant in Las Vegas open to the public.

This elementary school renovation in Paradise Valley was completed in April 2021 in three phases on an active campus during the pandemic. 

Expanding a 34-acre high school campus occupied by nearly 2,000 students is no easy task. However, despite the onset of COVID-19, this project was completed in just 12 months, five months earlier than planned.