ESP K-12 Schools Portfolio

ESP TEAM PORTFOLIO OF WORK:

K-12 FACILITIES & INFRASTRUCTURE

As the mission of K-12 schools continues to expand, ESP is proud to partner on facilities and infrastructure projects that help schools continue the important work of meeting students’ holistic needs, providing support for families, and contributing to community growth and vitality.

ESP has a long history of providing design, engineering, and construction-phase services for K-12 projects, including new construction, expansion, and renovation. We understand the impact our work can have on your mission, and we are dedicated to thoughtful design and timely, high-quality service.

Listen. Deliver. Improve.

ESP Associates, Inc. (ESP) is a multi-disciplinary firm serving various phases of project development and public safety. Through our planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, testing and inspections, geo-environmental, surveying, and water resource management services, we are a partner in our clients’ success.

ESP has been recognized as an ENR Top 500 Design Firm since 2013, including our most recent ranking of #32 in the Southeast for 2023

TEAM OF EXPERTS Due Diligence through Construction-Phase Services

36 YEARS IN BUSINESS

26 OFFICES ACROSS THE U.S.

650 EMPLOYEES

Landscape Architecture & Planning

Civil Engineering

GeoEnvironmental Survey & Geospatial

Construction Services

Feasibility & Due Diligence

Landscape Architecture

Master Planning

Land Planning

Capital Planning Strategy

Public Engagement

Site Civil Municipal Infrastructure Design Water Resources / Floodplain Mapping

GIS Services

Conventional & GPS

Mobile Lidar

3D Laser Scanning

SUE & 3D GPR

Pavement & Asset Inventory

Hydrographic

Aerial Mapping/UAS

Geotechnical Engineering

Dam Consulting

Geophysics

Environmental Consulting

Construction Engineering & Inspection (CEI)

Utility Coordination

Materials Testing Special Inspections

23+ SCHOOL DISTRICTS served across the CAROLINAS, including:

NC Charlotte-Metro

Cabarrus County Schools

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Gaston County Schools

SC Charlotte-Metro

Clover School District

Fort Mill School District

Rock Hill School District

SC Lowcountry

Charleston County School District

Dorchester County 2 School District

Olympic High School

Fort Mill School District Aquatic Center

Clover School District Transportation Center

Pleasant Knoll Middle School

North Charleston Elementary School

Crowders Creek Elementary School

West Cabarrus High School

FORT MILL SCHOOL DISTRICT

PLEASANT KNOLL MIDDLE SCHOOL

FORT MILL, SC | Completed 2017

Welcoming over 800 students in August 2017, Pleasant Knoll Middle School is Fort Mill School District’s first three-story school facility. The 38-acre campus includes classroom buildings, gymnasium, baseball field, track, multi-purpose field, field house with restrooms and showers, and associated parking and drives.

Planning & Design: ESP provided phasing and landscape plans, site lighting, driveway connections to Pleasant Road and the existing Pleasant Knoll Elementary School bus drive, offsite roadway improvements, student drop-off and bus access drives, and sidewalks.

Civil Engineering: Our team also provided design services for an underground fire line loop, stormwater management, water and sewer services, extension of a county-owned 12-inch water line, storm drainage systems, three permanent water quality/detention BMPs, grading, and erosion control.

Site Challenges: Due to a stream running through the site, classroom buildings and athletic facilities are located on opposite sides of the stream, requiring a pedestrian bridge to connect the campus. To accommodate challenging typography, site design included the location of retaining walls to allow for grade change.

Phase 1 ESA: A former home and significant accumulations of household debris were discovered on the site. Working closely with the owner, construction manager, and architect, our team revised the site plan to address these conditions in time to submit design documents for approval.

Geotechnical Engineering: ESP performed a surface wave seismic study and subsurface exploration as well as provided recommendations for mass grading, shallow foundation support, potential settlement, retaining wall parameters, high plasticity soils, and seismic site class. Construction materials testing and special inspections were also performed.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

ƒ Site Design & Permitting

ƒ Landscape Architecture

ƒ Environmental Consulting

ƒ Construction Materials Testing

ƒ Special Inspections

ƒ Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)

ƒ Geotechnical Engineering

ƒ Construction Administration

ƒ Surveying

Pleasant Knoll Middle School, Cont.

“Any time you open a new school, it’s an exciting chance to create new culture and traditions.”

JOE BURKE Chief Communications Officer Fort Mill School District

CABARRUS COUNTY SCHOOLS

WEST CABARRUS HIGH SCHOOL

CONCORD, NC | Completed 2020

Welcoming students to its 108-acre campus in August 2020, West Cabarrus High School includes a 264,000-square-foot building, 4,000-seat stadium with a 77,000-square-foot football field and eight-lane track, six tennis courts, two baseball fields, and associated parking and drives.

Environmental & Subsurface Evaluation: ESP performed a Phase I ESA and subsurface exploration on the site to aid the discovery of project challenges requiring mitigation. Findings included the presence of shallow subsurface water and near surface rock. ESP also facilitated a wetland survey used to secure USACE wetland permits.

Design Surveys: To support the engineering and architectural firms designing the new school, our team used traditional survey and mobile lidar to perform boundary, topographic, and tree surveys on the five contiguous parcels that make up this 108-acre site. Location and right-of-way surveys were also performed on approximately 8,500 linear feet of off-site roadway adjacent to the site for the design of roadway improvements.

Survey Deliverables: Deliverables included recordable plats of survey and metes & bounds legal descriptions for each parcel. Upon completion, appropriate monumentation was set at all missing corners of the property.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

ƒ Conventional Survey

ƒ Mobile

ƒ Subsurface Exploration

ƒ Phase I ESA

CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

K-12 SCHOOL FACILITIES

CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC | 2019 - O ngoing

ESP has proudly served Charleston County School District to support additions, renovations, upgrades, and replacements at the following schools:

ELEMENTARY

A.C. Corcoran

Angel Oak

Belle Hall

Charles Pinckney

E.B. Ellington

East Cooper

Frierson

Julian Mitchell

Lambs

Laurel Hill

Mamie P. Whitesides

Mary Ford

Mount Zion

North Charleston

Sanders-Clyde

W.B. Goodwin

MIDDLE

Haut Gap

Morningside

Moultrie

Thomas C. Cario

HIGH

James Island Charter

North Charleston

R.B. Stall Wando

Environmental Consulting: ESP performed collection and laboratory analysis of 1,337 potable water samples at 20 schools to test for total lead and turbidity in drinking water.

Surveying: Our team also conducted boundary and existing conditions surveys for 27.6 acres at the existing Haut Gap Middle School.

Geotechnical, Testing, & Inspections: Across the district, ESP has completed geotechnical, testing, and inspection services for additions, renovations, mobile relocations, and replacements for roof, ventilation, and HVAC.

Currently, our team is providing geotechnical, testing, and special inspections services for a 35,000-square-foot band addition at Wando High, including pre-construction survey, vibration monitoring, EQ drains, soils, concrete, and structural steel. We are also providing testing services for R.B. Stall High, Thomas C. Cario Middle, and Belle Hall Elementary.

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North Charleston Elementary School

Wando High School Band Addition

Angel Oak Elementary School

North Charleston High School