Sonoma Academy’s new professional-grade performing arts facility spans more than 27,000 sq ft. The structure will support the high school’s robust theater activities as well as music and film programs.
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.
