K-12 EDUCATION
Firm Introduction
JQ is a team of professionals providing structural and civil engineering, geospatial and facility performance services within a diverse group of markets. Our team is founded on creative and interpersonal ideals, embracing a level-headed, can-do mode of operating to bring the client’s vision to life. Our approach is a convergence of best-in-class technology and respectful communication that puts clients at ease - a unique approach for the industry that brings many clients to collaborate for the long haul. Since 1984, clients have sought JQ’s innovation in design and project delivery as much as our leadership. Handling the complexities of project management from multiple offices across Texas, JQ serves clients throughout the United States. As a group of creative, engaged and people-focused professionals, JQ offers more than access to forward-thinking design and the latest technologywe’re a nimble, resourceful firm renowned for exceeding expectations.
JQ’s multi-disciplinary staff provides broad management and technical expertise to any project. We are dedicated to the process and deliver projects that are feasible, sustainable and economical. Appreciating that field conditions can differ and system requirements and client criteria often evolve, our objective is always to greet project development challenges head on. The JQ team is committed to full participation, from conception and design through construction and facility start-up.
www.jqeng.com MISSION STATEMENT Achieving Excellence in the Pursuit of a Better Community SERVICES FACILITIESGEOSPATIALCIVILSTRUCTURALPERFORMANCE EMPLOYEES 90+
JQ has provided professional engineering services for more than 450 K-12 educational projects throughout the state. We have worked with more than 45 school districts to provide engineering services for projects that include new campuses, renovations, additions or adaptive reuse of existing facilities, facility assessments and ICC 500 storm shelters. Our team aligns around creating the most facility for the money by working with the district, architect and other consultants to provide the most economical facility while meeting the program requirements. We have a passion for helping to reduce cost through better design and construction documents, while providing a low maintenance building structure and site. 85%
repeat clients
450+ k-12 acrossprojectsTexas 45+ independentdistrictsschool
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ICC 500 Storm Shelter Design
JQ has provided structural engineering services for various facilities to withstand the forces from extreme wind events like hurricanes and tornadoes, and to resist the impact of wind-borne debris. When these facilities are located in coastal regions or near large bodies of water, JQ has provided structural design to mitigate the effects of a storm surge from the extreme wind event. We have designed many other public facilities throughout Texas that are structurally enforced for tornado or enhanced wind protection. We have also designed military facilities for anti-terrorism and force protection that incorporate blast mitigation design and design to resist progressive collapse.
JQ has in-house experts trained on the specifics of ICC 500 rated storm shelter structural design. The rigorous specifications of these facilities require specialized knowledge of interpretation. Our storm shelter team can provide design services as well as the required peer reviews for storm shelter ICC 500 certification.
Published Work
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JQ’s storm shelter team members recently wrote an article for STRUCTURE Magazine’s Seismic and Wind issue detailing their amassed knowledge of and lessons learned on the design of ICC 500 Storm Shelters. Read the article HERE
K-12 Representative Projects Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas ISD Renovation/Expansion Structural Hillcrest High School Renovation, Dallas ISD Renovation Civil, Survey Agriculture Facility, Fort Bend ISD New Construction Structural South Oak Cliff High School, Dallas ISD Renovation/Expansion Structural, ICC 500 Storm Shelter Design Berry Elementary School Replacement, Arlington ISD New Construction Structural Azle Elementary School, Azle ISD New Construction Structural Trimble Technical High School, Fort Worth ISD Renovation Structural Panther Stadium, Midway ISD Renovation/Expansion Structural
www.jqeng.com Toney Burger Stadium Assessment and Repairs, Austin ISD Assessment/Renovation Structural, Facilities Performance Amon Carter-Riverside High School, Fort Worth ISD Renovation/Expansion Structural Lee High School Peer Review, Houston ISD Study Structural Voss Farms Elementary School, New Braunfels ISD New Construction Structural David K. Sellers Elementary School, Fort Worth ISD Addition Structural, ICC 500 Storm Shelter Design Smithfield Elementary School, Birdville ISD New Construction Structural, ICC 500 Storm Shelter Design Gymnasium and Field House, Tahoka ISD New Construction/Renovation Structural M.L. King Academy, San Antonio ISD Campus Replacement Structural, Civil
K-12 PANTHER STADIUM ADDITIONS AND RENOVATION Midway ISD | Hewitt, Texas This project added 2,000 seats to the home side of Panther Stadium using seating risers with precast concrete raker beams and columns. Additional project components included a new, three-story, 7,200 SF press box and space for concessions and restrooms. Addition and Renovation Services: Structural Engineering Cost: $10.9M
Cost:Services:Renovation/ExpansionStructuralEngineering$20.3M
Dallas ISD | Dallas, Texas
WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL ADDITION AND RENOVATION
As part of the 2015 Dallas ISD Bond Program, the historic Woodrow Wilson High School received much needed upgrades. A 60,000-plus SF addition added a new gymnasium and locker room, fine arts space and 24 teaching spaces with a focus on engineering, labs and their robotics program. The new competition gym is an ICC 500 storm shelter and will able to accommodate every student and staff member of the high school and adjacent middle school if the need arises. An elevator was also added for the three-story addition. None of the historical protected portions of the school were removed and various renovations were made to the current school.
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This project contained three low buildings under the viewing stands and one taller structure supporting the press box at Gerald Prim Stadium in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The buildings include 6,200 SF of restroom, retail and office space at the concourse level and 3,800 SF at the press box level. The foundation consists of a slab-on-prepared subgrade with deep foundations in accordance with the geotechnical report. The low buildings contain load-bearing CMU walls with cold-formed metal roof framing, while the press box structure consists of structural steel. The project also included approximately 450 LF of retaining wall around the concourse level. and Renovation Engineering $6.2M
Services: Structural
K-12 GERALD PRIM STADIUM RENOVATIONS AND ADDITIONS
Sulphur Springs ISD | Sulphur Springs, Texas
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www.jqeng.com CLASSROOM AND FIELD HOUSE ADDITION, POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL Fort Worth ISD | Fort Worth, Texas The project consists of a new classroom addition, field house addition/renovation, and new tennis courts. The classroom addition is a one-story brick and stone veneer structure with structural steel and metal stud/masonry partitions. The addition includes classrooms, offices and restrooms and adds 3,078 SF to the existing field house for coach’s offices and existing training rooms. Services:Addition Structural Engineering Cost: $3.25M
The new 101,000 SF school includes large volume open spaces that anchor the building of 50 classrooms and various support spaces. A connection to the outside was crucial in the design, as the elementary school is adjacent to a middle school and the two buildings create an overall “campus” feel at the site.
JOSE MAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Dallas ISD | Dallas, Texas
New Services:ConstructionStructural Engineering Size: 101,000 SF Cost: $16M
www.jqeng.com WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Azle ISD | Azle, Texas The new two-story, 82,972 SF replacement school is home to 690 students. The school features large learning commons, with a focus on 21st century learning. New Services:ConstructionStructural Engineering Cost: $16.4M
New Services:ConstructionStructural Engineering Cost: $31.56M
OVERTON PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL & STORM SHELTER Fort Worth ISD | Fort Worth, Texas
The two-story state-of-the-art elementary school contains 91,687 SF and serves over 700 students, grades pre-K through 5th. It is the first elementary school designed to meet the District’s new elementary school standards. The facility contains four classrooms per grade level, special education services, science and art curriculum, media center, music room, life skills room, cafeteria, gymnasium, multi-purpose room with indoor/outdoor space for special events, sensory space, library, computer lab, and resource and reading rooms. The school is located on a portion of land that was originally part of the 7,000-acre Edwards Ranch, which was founded in 1848 prior to establishing the City of Fort Worth. The school was designed to pay homage to the native prairie lands of Edwards Ranch such as rust colored metal panels, brick and masonry with colors and patterns representing the dark rich soils, gabion walls with natural stone, and native planting. The school was also designed to have an ICC 500 code-compliant storm shelter.
K-12
Arlington ISD |
Arlington, Texas
ATHLETIC COMPLEX
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The Athletic Center includes the district’s first-ever natatorium with a 50-meter pool with moveable bulkheads, a diving area, a warm-up pool and seating for 1,000 spectators. In addition to the natatorium, the Athletics Center includes a 1,200-seat arena for competition wrestling, basketball and volleyball. $35.26M
JOHN T. WHITE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
K-12
New Services:ConstructionStructural and Civil Engineering, Geospatial Size: 76,100 SF Cost: $11.2M
Fort Worth ISD | Fort Worth, Texas
Designed in conjunction with the Collaborative for High Performance School (CHPS) requirements, the project aimed to provide the best possible learning environment with the smallest impact on the planet. As the property was undeveloped, civil engineering services included the design of utility infrastructure, including 1,100 LF of public sanitary sewer main and 400 LF of 54-inch storm drain piping. The project also included the design of 450 LF of minor arterial roadway, 20,000 SF of public roadway lane replacement and a 3-phase traffic control plan for the construction of the utilities and roadways. The campus includes 32 state of the art classrooms with an abundance of daylighting throughout, two playgrounds, a basketball court, and a number of grassy play areas.
www.jqeng.com AMON CARTER-RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA & CLASSROOM ADDITION Fort Worth ISD | Fort Worth, Texas
Cost:Size:Services:Renovation/ExpansionStructuralEngineering28,308SF$6.97M
This two-story, 28,308 SF addition includes 12 classrooms on the second story, as well as a new dining facility with a collegiate-style lounging area for students and a new kitchen with loading dock. This project also resulted in the renovation of restrooms and expanded the overall space for the athletics program in order to leverage the school’s increasing student and teacher populations.
Arlington ISD | Arlington, Texas
K-12
CENTER FOR VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
More than a standalone performance space, Arlington ISD’s Center for Visual and Performing Arts is a comprehensive fine arts facility with classroom spaces for advanced focused courses, visual arts studios, a dance studio, 1250-seat venue with fly loft, concert hall and associated support areas. Designed for optimal acoustics and superior functionality, the event spaces offer an unrivaled experience. The team brought design elements from world renowed performance facilities and incorporated them here in AISD’s home to help the these amazing student performers and artists excel. The venue also features a formal visual art gallery. This facility was designed to have an ICC 500 code-compliant storm shelter. $43.78M
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www.jqeng.com Contact Achieving Excellence in the Pursuit of a Better Community Akshai Ramakrishnan, PE 832.628.2645aramakrishnan@jqeng.com Carlo Taddei, PE 972.467.4221ctaddei@jqeng.com www.jqeng.com
