High School Campus Replacement
A new high school built next to the old one, with 2,400 students in class every day until they walked across the lawn into their new building.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Our role
- General contractor
- Delivery
- General contracting
- Scale
- 2,400 students
- Completed
- 2023
A new comprehensive high school built beside the old one while 2,400 students kept attending class, then the old building demolished for fields over one summer.
The district had one site and no swing space. The new school had to rise beside the occupied building, share its driveways and keep bus loops, fire lanes and athletics running. Science labs, a performing arts wing and a competition gym had to be ready for the first day of the school year, and the old building had to come down over one summer to make room for fields.
The approach.
- 01
Site logistics as the first plan
Haul routes, crane swing limits and delivery windows were drawn around bell schedules and bus times before any trade was bought out.
- 02
Trades sequenced to the calendar
The schedule worked back from the first day of school, with float protected for the gym floor, stage rigging and science lab casework.
- 03
Move week planned like a phase
Furniture, technology and classroom setup were scheduled as construction activities, not left to the district to sort out in August.
- 04
Demolition in one summer
Abatement and demolition of the old school were planned in detail during construction, so the fields could start before fall sports.
The outcome.
“Our schedule started from the first bell and worked backward. Everything else had to fit inside that.”
Superintendent, Jacob Wiseman
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