Madison School Project On Schedule, Architect Says
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Madison School Project On Schedule, Architect Says
By David [email protected]
According to James C. Lake, of KovertHawkins Architects, the architectural firm for the Warsaw Community Schools building projects, if you look at the project schedule from start to finish, there's always been plenty of time for the project to be completed. The stumbling block was the seven to eight weeks when the strike shut down the work.[[In-content Ad]]From the workers' first day back, however, they started to overcome the lost time. In eight weeks, Lake said Thursday afternoon, the workers made up the eight weeks of lost time, effectively working 16 weeks in eight weeks.
Quality was never sacrificed, he said.
Fetters Construction is the contractor for the Madison and Leesburg school projects. The Jefferson Elementary project is being completed by contractor James S. Jackson Co. LLC, while Michael Kinder and Sons Inc. is the contractor for the Claypool Elementary project.
The Madison project is right on schedule where it should be, Lake said. It's about 65 percent done. August 2 is the point of substantial completion, and Lake said that will be met.
"One hundred percent of the contractors will have their buildings complete," Lake said.
Lake provided a tour of the Madison project Thursday afternoon, detailing where rooms will be and how the school will work.
All the masonry on the outside of the building is complete, except for the entry canopy. The building columns are being completed so the entry canopy can be finished.
Inside the front doors will be a secure vestibule that leads to a secure lobby. The main office, to the right, has to let a person through to the rest of the school. To the left is a conference room for meetings with outside groups.
The health center is a large area so the nurse or medical personnel can do anything from dispense medication to an actual procedure. The area includes a waiting room, storage facility, health room, two restrooms, an actual procedural room and two cot areas for the typical sick kid.
"What you see in the front area here is a theme repeated in the four schools," Lake said.
"The office area is a large space. This was something they were missing in the past," said Lake.
When a person first enters the office area, they are met by the receptionist desk. There's a room off to the side for the principal's secretary, an accounting room, a work room specifically for office staff, a meeting room and the principal's office. There's two additional offices near the principal's office that are unassigned, which could be used for isolation rooms.
Schools generally suffer from a lack of meeting space. In the new schools, there's a variety of meeting spaces, Lake said.
The east side of Madison includes the primary wings for grades kindergarten to second grade. The west side features the wings for third and fourth grade and fifth and sixth grade.
In the heart of Madison - which is a mirror image of the new Leesburg school - is the media center. Also in the heart of the buildings are other shared spaces like the art, music and science rooms.
The media center, Lake said, is five to six times the size of the one at Jefferson now. It's also two to three times larger than the current Madison library. Also in the media center is a library office, an audiovisual work room and a private reading room.
On the other side of the media center back wall is the computer lab. It has room for 40 computer stations.
Opposite that is the music room. Nestled inbetween the computer lab and music room is the physical education office and restrooms.
The gymnasium is in the rear center of the building. The entire back wall will be covered with bleachers, which will seat about 550 students. The basketball court goes north and south. On the opposite side of the bleachers in the gym is the stage.
"You really have an incredible seating capacity when you want to do a presentation," Lake said.
The rear vestibule lets students wait behind the gym while they wait for their rides to pick them up from school.
The bus traffic will be in the front of the school, while car pick-up is in the back by the gym. The building separates the two for safety.
The school corporation will "absolutely" save money on the utilities for the new buildings, Lake said.
"These buildings will use far less energy per square foot," Lake said. "In my opinion, these are all great buildings."
Lake then showcased the classrooms, with their flexible space, and the large music room.
The kitchen and cafeteria are twice as large as the ones at Harrison and Eisenhower. The cafeteria will easily serve 400 kids at a time, Lake said.
Each wing has its own boys and girls restrooms, a staff restroom and work room.
"This is a large facility," Lake said. "It's just under 100,000 square feet."
Madison also will have rooms for English as a second language, special education, staff lounge, staff workroom, storage, speech and hearing and a room for the mental health specialist/counselor.
The kindergarten rooms are 1-1/2 times the size of a regular classroom. The four-section school also has two additional classrooms for purposes to be determined. Each classroom can accommodate up to 30 students. A typical classroom is just under 1,000 square feet, while a typical kindergarten classroom is just under 1,500 square feet.
The next step for the building project, Lake said, is the painting of the walls, putting in floor tiles, all terrazzo flooring in the wings and installation of the ceiling grid.
Lake said, "All will be done well under budget."
According to James C. Lake, of KovertHawkins Architects, the architectural firm for the Warsaw Community Schools building projects, if you look at the project schedule from start to finish, there's always been plenty of time for the project to be completed. The stumbling block was the seven to eight weeks when the strike shut down the work.[[In-content Ad]]From the workers' first day back, however, they started to overcome the lost time. In eight weeks, Lake said Thursday afternoon, the workers made up the eight weeks of lost time, effectively working 16 weeks in eight weeks.
Quality was never sacrificed, he said.
Fetters Construction is the contractor for the Madison and Leesburg school projects. The Jefferson Elementary project is being completed by contractor James S. Jackson Co. LLC, while Michael Kinder and Sons Inc. is the contractor for the Claypool Elementary project.
The Madison project is right on schedule where it should be, Lake said. It's about 65 percent done. August 2 is the point of substantial completion, and Lake said that will be met.
"One hundred percent of the contractors will have their buildings complete," Lake said.
Lake provided a tour of the Madison project Thursday afternoon, detailing where rooms will be and how the school will work.
All the masonry on the outside of the building is complete, except for the entry canopy. The building columns are being completed so the entry canopy can be finished.
Inside the front doors will be a secure vestibule that leads to a secure lobby. The main office, to the right, has to let a person through to the rest of the school. To the left is a conference room for meetings with outside groups.
The health center is a large area so the nurse or medical personnel can do anything from dispense medication to an actual procedure. The area includes a waiting room, storage facility, health room, two restrooms, an actual procedural room and two cot areas for the typical sick kid.
"What you see in the front area here is a theme repeated in the four schools," Lake said.
"The office area is a large space. This was something they were missing in the past," said Lake.
When a person first enters the office area, they are met by the receptionist desk. There's a room off to the side for the principal's secretary, an accounting room, a work room specifically for office staff, a meeting room and the principal's office. There's two additional offices near the principal's office that are unassigned, which could be used for isolation rooms.
Schools generally suffer from a lack of meeting space. In the new schools, there's a variety of meeting spaces, Lake said.
The east side of Madison includes the primary wings for grades kindergarten to second grade. The west side features the wings for third and fourth grade and fifth and sixth grade.
In the heart of Madison - which is a mirror image of the new Leesburg school - is the media center. Also in the heart of the buildings are other shared spaces like the art, music and science rooms.
The media center, Lake said, is five to six times the size of the one at Jefferson now. It's also two to three times larger than the current Madison library. Also in the media center is a library office, an audiovisual work room and a private reading room.
On the other side of the media center back wall is the computer lab. It has room for 40 computer stations.
Opposite that is the music room. Nestled inbetween the computer lab and music room is the physical education office and restrooms.
The gymnasium is in the rear center of the building. The entire back wall will be covered with bleachers, which will seat about 550 students. The basketball court goes north and south. On the opposite side of the bleachers in the gym is the stage.
"You really have an incredible seating capacity when you want to do a presentation," Lake said.
The rear vestibule lets students wait behind the gym while they wait for their rides to pick them up from school.
The bus traffic will be in the front of the school, while car pick-up is in the back by the gym. The building separates the two for safety.
The school corporation will "absolutely" save money on the utilities for the new buildings, Lake said.
"These buildings will use far less energy per square foot," Lake said. "In my opinion, these are all great buildings."
Lake then showcased the classrooms, with their flexible space, and the large music room.
The kitchen and cafeteria are twice as large as the ones at Harrison and Eisenhower. The cafeteria will easily serve 400 kids at a time, Lake said.
Each wing has its own boys and girls restrooms, a staff restroom and work room.
"This is a large facility," Lake said. "It's just under 100,000 square feet."
Madison also will have rooms for English as a second language, special education, staff lounge, staff workroom, storage, speech and hearing and a room for the mental health specialist/counselor.
The kindergarten rooms are 1-1/2 times the size of a regular classroom. The four-section school also has two additional classrooms for purposes to be determined. Each classroom can accommodate up to 30 students. A typical classroom is just under 1,000 square feet, while a typical kindergarten classroom is just under 1,500 square feet.
The next step for the building project, Lake said, is the painting of the walls, putting in floor tiles, all terrazzo flooring in the wings and installation of the ceiling grid.
Lake said, "All will be done well under budget."
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