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High-Profile Feature: Kingswood Schools
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North Branch Completes Kingswood School Projects
olfeboro, NH - North Branch Construction of Concord has completed the phased $43 million additions and renovations to the Kingswood Regional High School, Middle School, and Technical Center. Despite the challenges of working on an occupied school campus, North Branch completed this project for the Governor Wentworth Regional School District four months ahead of schedule. The architect for this project was CMK Architects of Manchester. This project has been called the “most complicated public school project in the history of the state” by the Governor Wentworth Regional School District Superintendent John Robertson. North Branch was already on site for Phase 1 building a new multi-purpose building, new synthetic and natural turf athletic fields as well as a geothermal ground heat exchanger (GHE) piping system to serve the entire campus. The $18.2 million multi-purpose building includes a 900 seat auditorium with classrooms and locker rooms. Phase 1 construction was completed in November 2010 and won the Award of Merit in Construction for the Institutional Over $10 Million category at the 2011 ABC NH/VT Excellence in Construction Awards.
CMK Architects
2010 and included major underground site utility reconstruction bringing the geothermal system (wells drilled in Phase 1) to all three schools. Over 300 construction workers were on-site daily when students left for the summer of 2011 school vacation. The high school and middle school schedules were fast-tracked in order to be ready for the 2011 fall semester. This two year project included 90,000sf of additions and nearly 270,000sf of renovations to the middle school, high school and technical center. All three schools were re-roofed and renovated. The high school underwent a total gut renovation, including asbestos abatement. The middle and highschools’ exterior façades were replaced, upgrading the thermal envelopes.
Aerial photo of Kingswood Regional Schools This project was built to meet the energy efficiency and environmental standards of the Northeast Collaborative for High Performance Schools (NECHPS State Funding for School Construction). Chip Krause of CMK commented that the preliminary results for total energy used by this facility is 40% less than other high performance schools. The techniques utilized for this energy savings are applicable to any building type. Phase 2 of construction began in June
Project Team for Kingswood Schools
Owner: Kingswood Regional Schools Construction Manager: North Branch Construction Architect: CMK Architects Civil Engineer: White Mountain Survey Co. Structural Engineer: Foley Buhl Roberts & Assoc. Mechanical Engineer: Yeaton Associates Inc. Electrical Engineer: Engineered Building Systems Acoustical Engineer: Acentech Inc.
Subcontractor for Kingswood Schools Glass and Glazing
Focus:
Educational Facilities Developments
Agostini Builds Norwood HS
241 Narragansett Park Drive, East Providence, RI 02916 Phone (401) 431-1200 Fax: (401) 431-0049
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Congratulations to North Branch Construction!
(above) gymnasium (below) auditorium
Norwood, MA - Agostini Construction Company of East Providence, R.I. along with Compass Project Management, Inc. of Medfield, Mass., the owner’s project manager, teamed up with the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) and Architectural Involution (Ai3) of Wayland to successfully manage, design, and build the new Norwood High School. The new high school was the first model built under the MSBA’s Model School Program...see story on page 32. (above) athletic field (top and below) Entrance to athletic center and performing arts center.
Norwood High School main entrance
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