Missouri Innovation Campus

Lee’s Summit, Missouri

Lee’s Summit R-VII School District

A progressive partnership between Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, Metropolitan Community College and the University of Central Missouri is reshaping the way students experience education at the new Missouri Innovation Campus (MIC). The 2 + 2 program, which is a collaboration between both industry and academic partners, focuses on learner outcomes in an immersive and rich real-life workplace experience. Students from 16 to 30 are working in a classroom and workplace towards the same degree. DLR Group and design partner Gould Evans have created a facility that supports a diverse and flexible program to evolve as future careers are invented. The programs: networking, engineering, medical, bio medical, graphics, hospitality, and cybersecurity, within the building are segregated into quadrants and split on two floors for ease of wayfinding. Throughout the building its character takes on a sense of Academia meets Google with a commitment to create incidental contact that results in collaboration between students, teachers and higher education faculty. Learning and teaching happens everywhere. The unique feature of this facility is its intentional design of spaces to be used by all disciplines and programs, in that nature it will be programmed like a higher education facility. There are dedicated labs for specific programs and adjacencies to flexible spaces for a changing curriculum. Industry partners will be encouraged to use hoteling spaces and the conference center to see and be seen by students of the facility. Industry leaders in the hi-tech medical records field, logistics experts and global engineering firms will be a part of the day-to-day in this building.

MIC is setting the benchmark for the next generation model for education. This high-tech, STEM focused facility serves 600 Lee’s Summit R-7 School District students and 1,200 University of Central Missouri students. High school graduates can earn an associate’s degree, followed by a bachelor’s degree two years later. These benefits translate into earlier graduation, less college debt and higher job placement. Bachelor degree programs include, Systems Engineering Technology, Design and Drafting Technology, Computer Science and Cybersecurity.

Completed: August 2017

Size: 135,000 SF

Construction Cost: $27,368,372 Services: Architecture, Engineering

Relevant Team Members: Adam Wells, Andy Anderson, Ian Kilpatrick, Kevin Fluegel

Delivery Method: CM Agent

Prospect High School CLT Classroom Buildings

San Jose, CA

Campbell Union High School District

Prospect High School is Aedis’ first K-12 Mass Timber project. The school will be transformed with the addition of two, single story buildings and approximately 1.5 acres of site work that will seamlessly connect with the existing campus and add approximately 20,000 SF of indoor and outdoor learning areas.

The importance of nature and biophilia for student health and wellness was a major focus for this project and the designs truly reflect that commitment. A strong indoor-outdoor connection was woven into the design, and Cross Laminated Timber, a natural, renewable, sustainable, and low carbon footprint material, was used for the roof structure. It creates a warm, pleasant and biophilic space that promotes an increase in student performance as well as boosts the energy level and overall well-being of the occupants. The project is estimated to be completed and ready in the winter of the 2022-23 school year.

Project highlights include:

• Spacious classrooms, Makerspaces and Science labs with large covered, outdoor collaboration spaces for extended learning

• Exposed CLT roof deck with high ceilings

• Large skylights to maximize daylight

Completed: February 2023

Size: 20,000 SF

Construction Cost: $11,869,777

Services: Architecture

Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build

Relevant Team Members: John Diffenderfer (PIC)