DPR Construction Archives - سԹ /tag/dpr_construction/ Design - Construction - Operations Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:15:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2026/01/cropped-SCN_favicon-32x32.png DPR Construction Archives - سԹ /tag/dpr_construction/ 32 32 How Higher Education Can Advance Capital Projects Amid 2025’s Challenges /2025/10/23/how-higher-education-can-advance-capital-projects-amid-2025s-challenges/ /2025/10/23/how-higher-education-can-advance-capital-projects-amid-2025s-challenges/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:00:19 +0000 /?p=54327 Leaders are being forced to rethink how they plan, budget and deliver new infrastructure and capital projects to keep long-term priorities on track.

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Photo: The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Dr. Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center in Atlanta, where the institution’s office of corporate engagement has secured nearly 15% of the campus research funding from industry, with corporations spending more than $70 million on research this fiscal year, up 28% from last year. | Image Credit: Danny Sandler, DPR Construction

By Michelle Martin

Colleges and universities across the United States are facing one of the most unsettled periods for capital planning and campus growth in decades. Rising material costs, shifting federal policies and political uncertainty are combining with financial pressures to delay, reduce or completely reshape projects. From laboratories and student housing to athletic facilities, essential initiatives are now caught in a cycle of volatility. This environment of uncertainty is leaving its mark on capital development across campuses. Leaders are being forced to rethink how they plan, budget and deliver new infrastructure to keep long-term priorities on track.

Building Research Facilities Despite Funding Cuts

San Francisco State University on the institution’s Science and Engineering Innovation Center
DPR Construction also worked with San Francisco State University on the institution’s Science and Engineering Innovation Center.
Photo Credit: SmithGroup

Among the most significant forces shaping higher education construction is the decline in dependable federal funding for research.

Substantial reductions to major funding sources of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), especially the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF), are prompting institutions to pause or phase projects that depend on federal funding to operate. Uncertainty in litigation outcomes compound the challenges in implementing capital programs. The effects are visible. Laboratories and research complexes require years of planning and are now being interrupted midway or scaled down.

“Novel discoveries happening within the walls of university research labs are essential in advancing innovation within the United States and globally. To ensure the continuation of these important research endeavors, university leaders are unlocking innovative funding and enrollment strategies,” said Greg Fraikor, Higher Education Core Market Leader for DPR Construction.

As legal battles around federal funding continue, institutions are implementing new strategies to fill the gap now. Research facilities not only house the research within but also attract the researchers, faculty and industry partners needed to secure funding. The top R1 institutions are already implementing new financing strategies such as selling bonds, restructuring their endowments, increasing case reserves and increasing enrollment numbers through higher acceptance rates, in part, to address the dwindling number of international students paying out-of-state tuition fees. Industry partnerships will be an enduring addition to university research funding with direct dollars allocated to research areas of private sector interest. Georgia Tech exemplifies this model of corporate engagement. As reported in , Georgia Tech’s office of corporate engagement has secured nearly 15% of the campus research funding from industry, with corporations spending more than $70 million on research this fiscal year, up 28% from last year. Transitioning from surviving to thriving will require a full suite of new strategies and tactics heading into 2026.

Rising Material Costs Encourage Phased Construction

Increased tariffs on steel and aluminum, and U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber rose in July and August. The result is higher costs for construction projects. To manage this environment, universities are increasingly embracing phased construction. By breaking projects into stages, they can spread out investment, hedge against cost swings, and maintain forward momentum. They’re also exploring design simplification and alternative material selection and supply sources. Institutions that bring construction and supply chain partners into the process early are having success in modeling escalations and planning sourcing options accordingly.

Endowment Tax Proposals Complicate Long Term Planning

Adding to the significant changes in university operations, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s new three-tiered endowment tax structure imposes a federal excise tax ranging from 1.4% to 8% for targeted institutions. Beginning in January 2026, the tax will significantly impact the top 20 endowments to the tune of over $10 billion over the next five years. Affected universities are taking steps to mitigate impacts through hiring freezes, cutting research costs, and, unfortunately, reducing access for lower- and middle-income students. As  noted, the American Council on Education’s assistant vice president of government relations, Steven Bloom stated, “… these schools are going to have to spend more money under the tax, taking it away from what they primarily use their endowment assets for — financial aid.” These early mitigation strategies allow institutions to develop scenario plans exploring the best options to pause, reduce, or sustain their current capital programs.

Read more about how to proceed through policy changes, and the 2026 outlook, in the .

Michelle Martin is a national higher education strategist at DPR Construction.

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Northern California Academy Unveils New Performing Arts Hub /2024/07/05/northern-california-academy-unveils-new-performing-arts-hub/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:24:12 +0000 /?p=52706 Sonoma Academy recently completed construction of its new 350-seat Community Performing Arts Center.

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By SCN Staff

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—Sonoma Academy recently completed construction of its new 350-seat Community Performing Arts Center. The professional-grade facility will host the school’s theater, music and film productions, as well as serve as a gathering place for the campus and a community resource hosting various types of arts programming. The Community Performing Arts Center was designed by Quattrocchi Kwok Architects (QKA) and WRNS Studio, and built by DPR Construction with The Shalleck Collaborative serving as the theatrical consultant.

“The opening of the Community Performing Arts Center marks the start of a new era for our school,” said Head of School Tucker Foehl. “This beautiful, state-of-the-art facility will provide a gathering place for our school community and a home for our stellar theater, music and dance programs. The high-tech features and thoughtfully designed spaces will allow us to stage more ambitious productions and involve more student performers than ever before. Equally exciting is the opportunity we have to welcome the surrounding community to our campus, as we expand our roster of events and develop partnerships with other local organizations.”

The 27,500-square-foot facility includes a 350-seat theater, stage and full orchestra pit, along with supporting spaces that together provide an experience on par with that of a professional theater. Technical capabilities include theater lighting that can be controlled digitally and an audio-visual system that boasts a Dolby Laboratories sound system coupled with a Christie Digital 4K laser projector for a true cinematic experience. Further, a tension grid is located above the entire stage area for the placement of lighting and other equipment needed for immersive performances. The theater seating can be configured to accommodate small and large audiences.

In addition to the main theater space, the Community Performing Arts Center includes an Actors Studio with an adjacent classroom for instruction and rehearsal space that mirrors the capabilities of the theater. Backdrops and stage scenery can be built in the scene shop that is located directly behind the stage. The building provides spaces that support the theater’s activities, such as a glass-enclosed lobby, box office, dressing rooms, and an additional classroom and storage space on the lower level.

“It has been a remarkable experience to work alongside Sonoma Academy and the collaborative project team to design this truly remarkable and cutting-edge performing arts building,” said QKA Principal Emeritus Steve Kwok. “The various spaces will allow students to participate in the complete production of a performance, and it will certainly be an invaluable community asset.”

Sustainable features are incorporated throughout the facility, such as energy-efficient lighting and HVAC systems, including a displacement heating and cooling design for the audience seating area. These systems are run by a digital building management system that can be fully and precisely controlled by the school.

Sonoma Academy’s new Community Performing Arts Center is ideally suited for the school’s theatrical and musical performances, as well as lecture presentations. It provides a welcome space for the entire school to gather for weekly community meetings and will also be made available to a variety of community organizations. The first large-scale school production, Guys & Dolls, took place in May with a run of six shows.

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Work Begins on New Georgia Tech Athletic Performance Center /2024/05/08/work-begins-on-new-georgia-tech-athletic-performance-center/ Wed, 08 May 2024 11:27:48 +0000 /?p=52548 Construction has started on the Thomas A. Fanning Student Athlete Performance Center, a 100,000-square-foot facility at Georgia Tech that will house facilities dedicated to nutrition, sports medicine, strength training and mental health services.

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By Eric Althoff

ATLANTA—Construction has started on the Thomas A. Fanning Student Athlete Performance Center, a 100,000-square-foot facility at Georgia Tech that will house facilities dedicated to nutrition, sports medicine, strength training and mental health services. Additionally, the Fanning Center will feature meeting spaces to be used exclusively by Georgia Tech football and support staff. The Fanning Center will also house Georgia Tech’s first sports science lab, wherein technicians will make use of in-house data analytics programs to track individual performance.

Designed by the S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM), the Fanning Center will feature several sustainability efforts including repurposing steel from the campus’s Bobby Dodd Stadium. (Fanning Center will be part of the Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field complex.) The Fanning Center’s carbon footprint will also be partially offset with such energy-saving design elements as cross-laminated timber placed throughout the new athletic facility. The center is being constructed atop the footprint of the former Edge/Rice Center.

The Fanning Center is named in honor of alumnus Dr. Thomas A. Fanning, whose dedication to forward-thinking energy usage serves as a model for the Georgia Tech community. Fanning also served at various times on the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, the Alexander-Tharpe Fund Board of Directors, the Scheller College of Business Advisory Board and Transforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech Steering Committee, where he serves as co-chair.

Fanning was one of several honored attendees at the recent groundbreaking—including several designers and builders who graduated from Georgia Tech.

“This is an incredibly exciting day for Georgia Tech athletics, as we move one step closer to delivering a first-class, state-of-the-art facility for our student-athletes,” said Director of Athletics J Batt. “We’re thankful for the generosity of Tom Fanning and all our generous supporters who have donated to this project, for the visionary leadership of [Georgia Tech President] Dr. [Ángel] Cabrera, and for our partners at SLAM and DPR Construction, all of whom have been integral in reaching this milestone.”

“It’s been incredibly special to have led the design for my alma mater, creating a new epicenter of athletics that is holistically dedicated to student-athletes’ success,” SLAM lead architect and principal Marc Clear said at the ceremony. “The groundbreaking of the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center is an exciting milestone in creating this technology-rich home for GT Athletics.”

Added Brian Oliver, DPR Construction project executive, and also a Georgia Tech alumnus: “As the college athletics landscape evolves, we’re thrilled to start bringing Georgia Tech’s vision for student-athletes and its campus to life.”

During his time at Georgia Tech, Oliver was part of the NCAA Final Four men’s basketball team in 1990.

“We’re also proud that this project will help support opportunities for local workers in the skilled trades, many of whom feel personal connections with the campus and its athletic program,” Oliver said.

The Fanning Center is due to open in the spring of 2026.

 

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UC Riverside Debuts New Plant-Based Research Facility /2023/08/01/uc-riverside-debuts-new-plant-based-research-facility/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:30:14 +0000 /?p=51716 Things are certainly growing at the University of California, Riverside.

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By Eric Althoff

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Things are certainly growing at the University of California, Riverside. Designer Perkins&Will and general contractor DPR Construction, along with personnel from UCR, recently gathered in celebration of a new state-of-the-art greenhouse and agricultural research building for UCR’s College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS).

This two-story, 30,000-square-foot greenhouse project will allow CNAS faculty and students to conduct growth studies and learn more about feeding an expanding population. Some of the early work undertaken there entails investigating how bees pollinate flowers in different environments as well as testing how rice can be made to be more resistant to floods and drought conditions that are only becoming more dire as the planet warms. Other research will be undertaken to examine how climate-control tech can be applied to serve various other agricultural needs.

The architectural design features a serrated concrete wall on the lower level that can help regulate shifts in internal temperature more naturally rather than relying on HVAC exclusively. The main level offers specific rooms for potting, growth chambers as well as breakrooms. The facility’s second level features 16 individual greenhouse modules that can be customized for specific studies and research.

“I’m thrilled about the amazing work being facilitated in the new CNAS Plant Research building,” said Jessica Orlando, associate principal and higher education practice leader at Perkins&Will Los Angeles. “Our team feels so privileged to have contributed to the delivery of a functional, high-performance building that also creates a stunning design that pays homage to UC Riverside’s rich campus fabric.”

Perkins&Will personnel took as inspiration for their design motif the nearby greenhouses, whose gables were reproduced in a new way for the upper glass roof of the Plant Research building. Meanwhile, the structure employs minimal use of concrete, glass and steel in a nod to more eco-conscious development. Furthermore, each upper-level greenhouse is wrapped in double-pane polarized glass, allowing observers to watch experimenters at work.

Climate control for each individual greenhouse module can be manipulated to simulate a variety of different weather settings and levels of humidity. A large evaporative cooling system works for the entire building, and researchers also can modulate the amount of natural light entering into each individual module.

“It was important for us to couple practical functionality and the aesthetic roots of the surrounding greenhouses with the college’s forward-looking spirit and focus on scientific innovation,” said August Miller, senior designer at Perkins&Will. “This ultimately translated to a series of greenhouse modules, each its own independent laboratory, at the upper level.”

Added Yan Krymsky, design director of Perkins&Will’s Los Angeles studio: “It’s really a machine, a tool for research. But beyond that, we wanted to create a structure that spoke to the legacy of the university.”

The CNAS sits on a part of the UCR campus formerly occupied by older greenhouses. In fact, the school originally started out as University of California Citrus Experiment Station in 1907, eventually changing to UCR.

Perkins&Will was founded in 1935 and employs over 2,000 people in 20 studios around the world. The firm’s Los Angeles studio is located in the heart of the historic downtown.

 

 

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Community College Science Building Targets Fall Launch in SoCal /2022/07/05/community-college-science-building-targets-fall-launch-in-socal/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:08:33 +0000 /?p=50673 Glendale Mayor Ardy Kassakhian and other civic leaders signed their names to the final beam set into place atop Glendale Community College District’s New Science Building (SCI), which will be ready to welcome students in the fall of 2023. 

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By Eric Althoff

GLENDALE, Calif.—Glendale Mayor Ardy Kassakhian and other civic leaders signed their names to the final beam set into place atop Glendale Community College District’s New Science Building (NSB), which will be ready to welcome students in the fall of 2023.

The $90 million building is needed, considering that the community college will be welcoming a larger student body in the years to come, particularly in the scientific fields.

Over five stories of space, the NSB will serve the greater GCC community student body in both the physical and biological sciences.  The 116,000-square-foot facility will feature a 125-seat lecture hall, 31 science laboratories, faculty offices, as well as dedicated learning and instruction space for such fields of study as chemistry, biology, oceanography, geology and biotech.  The new laboratories are designed to adhere to educational chemistry safety standards set forth by the American Chemical Society.

The NSB will also connect to other campus structures, including the Camino Real, San Gabriel and Health Sciences buildings.

The venue is replacing smaller facilities spread out across multiple structures, including the San Gabriel, Arroyo Seco and Camino Real buildings.  By bringing all of these instruction capabilities together under one roof, Glendale Community College will be better able to refine its focus on STEM education and scientific research.

HMC Architects designed the NSB.  General contractor DPR Construction and Gafcon were on hand at the recent topping-out ceremony, and will continue to oversee the construction efforts at the site.

In a statement sent to سԹ, DPR Construction said that working on a hilly site such as this one, in the foothills of Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains, required managing a creative flow of both workers and materials.

“The beautiful Glendale Community College campus flows down a hillside.  However, this topography makes it difficult to carve out enough flat land to build compared to open, flat campuses,” DPR’s statement said.  “To prepare the New Science Building footprint, we built a large shoring wall and removed thousands of cubic yards of material.”

Much of the funding for the new building came from Measure GC, a bond program passed in 2016 by Glendale voters to upgrade several buildings across Glendale Community College’s various campuses.

Under the current construction timeline, most of the construction work will be completed next July, and be ready for students to move in for classes in the fall of 2023.

DPR Construction is headquartered in Northern California’s Redwood City.  Their other educational projects in the Golden State include work at CSU Long Beach and UC Santa Cruz.

 

 

 

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LPA Wins AIA Design Award for California School Expansion /2020/12/07/lpa-wins-aia-design-award-for-california-school-expansion/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:21:28 +0000 http://schoolconstructionnews.com/?p=49031 LPA recently won an Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects (national) Educational Facility Design Awards for the design of Tarbut V’Torah’s expansion.

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By SCN Staff

IRVINE, Calif.—LPA recently won an Award of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects (national) Educational Facility Design Awards for the design of Tarbut V’Torah’s expansion. Only six projects in the country received this recognition.

Completed in 2018, this project was an effort to modernize the campus and re-establish the school’s prominence in Irvine, Calif. The total cost for lower school construction and upper school STEAM building was $25 million.

The campus expansion was part of a new strategic plan developed by the school’s trustees to grow the student body and re-establish Tarbut V’Torah as a premier independent school. LPA worked closely with the school’s administration and community to co-develop a program that responds to the school’s vision of future-ready learning environments.

The expansion of the campus included the addition of three new buildings—a maker building, a STEAM building, and a fitness building, in addition to outdoor learning environments. LPA’s engineers, designers and landscape architects worked with school leaders and students to develop spaces that address the social and emotional aspects of students, as well as the academic.

The school’s flexible learning environments allow for hands-on, project-based learning, indoors and out. Classrooms with glass walls open to the expansive views of the scenic Southern California community. A quad adjacent to the new buildings includes small group pods, an amphitheater and stage, evening performance lighting, a lunch terrace, an 18-foot-long concrete work bench table and a roof top huddle deck.

DPR Construction was the general contractor on this impressive project.

 

 

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Arizona State Breaks Ground on Multipurpose Tower /2020/03/16/arizona-state-breaks-ground-on-multipurpose-tower/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:00:23 +0000 http://schoolconstructionnews.com/?p=48086 In partnership with Arizona State University (ASU), established architecture, and planning firm Studio Ma has announced the groundbreaking of the new ASU Downtown Phoenix Residence Hall and Entrepreneurial Center, a 16-floor residential tower with academic and interdisciplinary facilities.

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By SCN Staff

PHOENIX—In partnership with Arizona State University (ASU), established architecture, and planning firm Studio Ma has announced the groundbreaking of the new ASU Downtown Phoenix Residence Hall and Entrepreneurial Center, a 16-floor residential tower with academic and interdisciplinary facilities. The innovation hub’s unique design expands community living space for up to 530 students and assists visiting professionals to connect organically with the city and regional business community through large windows and an urban paseo.

The new, 284,000-square-foot building also creates a resource platform supporting creative ventures among students, faculty, and alumni with local artists, businesses, and government agencies.

Studio Ma earned the commission through a highly competitive process led by Capstone Development Partners, a national leader in student housing development and management. Studio Ma was recognized and selected for its “committed leadership, familiarity with the university and market, and ability to push the envelope on design and sustainability while maintaining all budget and performance parameters.” Rounding out the project team is DPR Construction, another longtime partner of Arizona State University, as the design-build provider.

Drawing on deep experience with diverse institutions, including Cranbrook, Princeton, and Washington University in St. Louis, Studio Ma’s work presents students and faculty with a new way of working in the arts and design. Scheduled to open in the fall of 2021, the transformative downtown complex will set the stage for the university to cultivate new entrepreneurship research.

Employing an innovative design concept that brings academic space and student housing under one roof, the team envisaged a 16-story innovation hub concept consisting of 13 floors of student housing above three levels of academic space. The innovation hub will be wrapped in a bioclimatic façade designed to minimize energy use and glare from the desert sun, conceived with simulation software that Studio Ma is beta-testing in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The angular façade in ultra-high-performance concrete and metal panels and floor-to-ceiling windows—materials also used for the residential tower exteriors establishes a striking and memorable icon for the city.

Yet the ASU Downtown Phoenix Residence Hall is more than a multi-purpose facility. The team also met challenging zoning and infill site conditions with an innovative massing and layout that offers a valuable east-west pedestrian paseo connecting the community to the new complex.

In addition to helping the university meet a minimum green-building rating level of LEED Silver, the new building optimizes indoor environmental quality in all spaces including high-tech fabrication rooms and studio areas where sensitive materials and equipment are used. Geared toward such academic programs as industrial design, fashion and popular music, the innovation hub consolidates a range of entrepreneurial and community-focused programs from across ASU’s Herberger Institute of Design & the Arts. Entrepreneurial center facilities include a mix of studios, classrooms, offices, exhibition and event spaces, as well as fabrication and workshop areas with specialized equipment and environmental systems.

The work promises to make Phoenix among the first U.S. cities with a university activated downtown space dedicated to collaboration across creative fields, organizations and market sectors, according to the project team. “The Studio Ma team rolled up their sleeves along with our design-build partners to create an innovative and sustainable building design, that involved multiple constituents and stakeholders, while optimizing the project budget and being steadfast in maintaining the schedule, despite evolving project and program requirements,” says William Davis, executive vice president of Capstone Development Partners, the public-private partnership (P3) developer.

Other recent works by Studio Ma for Arizona State University have included the award-winning conceptual design for ISTB-7, the 258,000-square-foot, interdisciplinary science and research complex designed as a triple-net-zero facility and lauded as “a new generation of sustainable design solutions that are climate responsive and employ regenerative technologies.” The architecture firm has also led Arizona State University’s designs for various major campus transformations, including their Sun Devil Fitness Complex and the acclaimed Memorial Union Plaza student complex.

The groundbreaking for ASU Downtown Phoenix Residence Hall and Entrepreneurial Center also heralds the arrival of next-generation sustainable construction on university campuses, showcasing Studio Ma’s capacity to design for a greener, more resilient future. The result is a thriving hub of enterprise at Arizona State University and an environmentally attuned showplace for students, the local creative economy, and entrepreneur development.

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California Student Complex on Target for 2021 Completion /2020/01/23/california-student-complex-on-target-for-2021-completion/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:00:16 +0000 http://schoolconstructionnews.com/?p=47909 With a completion date slated for July 2021, construction continues on the Emerson Hall redevelopment project at University of California, Davis.

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By Lisa Kopochinski

DAVIS, Calif.—With a completion date slated for July 2021, construction continues on the Emerson Hall redevelopment project at University of California, Davis.

DPR Construction is the general contractor on this $109 million design-build project that began in mid-2019 with architecture firm HKS, Inc. Included is a new, three-building, ground-up student housing complex with a bed count between 749 to 809 beds.

The bedrooms will have double and triple room arrangements and include bathrooms. The three buildings will also include common rooms, residence assistant apartments, lounges, recreation rooms, an Advising Center, community space, a community kitchen, music room, maintenance shops and laundry facilities.

سԹ of Emerson Hall include double-occupancy rooms. All rooms are part of a “suite” configuration, which are similar to full apartments, but without a kitchen. The suites are arranged off the corridor and open into a foyer.

Room dimensions are approximately 220 square feet. Two-bedroom (4 occupant) suites have one bathroom; and three-bedroom (6 occupant) suites have 2 bathrooms. Emerson Hall will have two laundry rooms; the smaller laundry room has 6 washing machines and 6 dryers while the larger has 16 washing machines and 16 dryers.

DPR Construction has also partnered with Digital Building Components on this project to deliver non-combustible, light gauge cold-formed, load-bearing structures. The use of DBC has allowed the team to change the buildings from Type V/III wood-framed construction to a Type II steel-framed building. This allows the three buildings to be connected, improving egress and allowing social balconies between the buildings.

This project is required to be LEED Silver certified, but is targeting for LEED Gold.

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Sacramento High School Science Center on Target for 2020 Debut /2019/09/11/sacramento-high-school-science-center-on-target-for-2020-debut/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:34:37 +0000 http://schoolconstructionnews.com/?p=47407 Earlier this year, the San Juan Unified School District (SJUSD) in Sacramento, Calif. held a ceremonial groundbreaking for Mira Loma High School’s new $26.4 million generation science wing.

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By Lisa Kopochinski

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Earlier this year, the San Juan Unified School District (SJUSD) in Sacramento, Calif. held a ceremonial groundbreaking for Mira Loma High School’s new $26.4 million generation science wing. Mira Loma High is an award-winning International Baccalaureate (IB) school.

SJUSD faculty, students and the surrounding community, with architect firm Lionakis, and DPR Construction, general contractor on the project, dug into the staff parking lot with their golden shovels and hard hats to commence the construction of this highly anticipated building.

Construction management firm ICS is overseeing the project in conjunction with San Juan Unified staff.

The two-story science center—which is being funded by Measure N—will span approximately 32,000 square feet and include next-generation biology, chemistry, physics and earth science classrooms, as well as a flexible learning space and outdoor learning environment. The new building will replace the existing science labs from the 1960s, in support of a campus that boasts a nationally ranked Science Olympiad team and a rigorous International Baccalaureate program.

The project will include the installation of rooftop and carport-style photovoltaics. The use of dynamic glass for shading and security concerns is part of the program, as is the concept of “science on display” where the building is also used as a teaching tool and an opportunity to share science concepts throughout.

Hundreds of students, staff and community members also signed their name onto a steel beam that will be installed onto the frame of the new building.

“I think it’s nice that we get to sign this beam, and then all the students will have their name in this building forever,” said Mira Loma sophomore Andy Chittenden.

Frank Camarda, San Juan Unified Assistant Superintendent of Facilities, Maintenance and Transportation, said the building is on track to open by August 2020, in time for the next school year.

“It’s really exciting to see the project come to life. We’ve spent a lot of time doing sitework, so this part, where you see the vertical construction is really exciting.”

Added Science Department Chair James Hill, “It really is a great thing for our campus to actually see it being built.”

The signed steel beam is the final piece that will be installed and will be celebrated by the construction crew with what is known as a “topping out ceremony” where it will be swung into place with an American Flag attached to it.

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5 Phoenix-Area سԹ Projects Greet Returning Students /2016/08/18/5-phoenix-area-school-construction-projects-greet-returning-students/ /2016/08/18/5-phoenix-area-school-construction-projects-greet-returning-students/#respond Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:27:02 +0000 PHOENIX — For the 2016-17 school year, students at several Phoenix-area schools are heading back to newly constructed buildings, according to The Arizona Republic.

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PHOENIX — With the start of the 2016-17 school year, students at several Phoenix-area schools are heading back to newly constructed buildings, according to . Here’s a roundup of five major school construction projects helping to change the face of local education for the 2016-2017 school year:

Laird Elementary School: The school added two grade levels in 2009, prompting the construction of a new building to accommodate a larger student body. It was rebuilt thanks to area voters who authorized a 2009 bond to pay for construction, and an official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on July 28 following the building’s completion. The new Laird Elementary Schools features 28 classrooms as well as two labs for art and science. DLR Group, with offices in Phoenix, served as the architect on the project, while Mesa, Ariz.-based Concord General Contracting served as the construction manager at-risk, according to the .

Westwood High School: Construction on a new $9.6 million classroom building for Westwood High began last fall. The 86,000-square-foot building, which was completed July 1, features 25 classrooms, a media center and a culinary classroom. The design incorporates four massive W shapes that blend into the project and provide structural support, according to .

Empower Collegiate Academy: The charter high school welcomed students back to a new facility earlier this month after construction was completed earlier this summer. Beginning with a 130-student freshman class, the school will add a grade level each year until reaching its 500-student capacity. Empower Collegiate Academy was established in 2012 for third through eighth grades, so the construction of the high school was a logical next step in seeing students through to graduation.

Arizona Autism Charter Schools: The school system renovated an existing building, which opened Aug. 8, to serve as a school for older students with autism. In its first year, 55 students in fifth through seventh grades will occupy the new building, adding one grade level each academic year until reaching grade 12.

Esperanza Elementary School: Currently two-thirds completed, a massive revamp of the elementary school will address safety and security issues as well as energy conservation when it is finished this winter. It will also feature additional square footage for classroom expansions.

 

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