STEM Middle School
A new middle school for 1,100 students rose next to an occupied campus without one lost instructional day.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- K–12 Education
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Scale
- 118,000 SF
- Completed
- 2022
A 1,100-student middle school with robotics labs and flexible classrooms, built beside an occupied campus.
The new building went up a few dozen yards from classrooms full of children. Buses, parent drop-off and recess all crossed the paths construction traffic wanted to use. The district needed the robotics labs and flexible classrooms ready for a fixed opening, and the old building had to stay fully operational until the day students switched over.
The approach.
- 01
Site logistics drawn around the bell
Deliveries, crane picks and concrete pours were scheduled outside arrival, dismissal and recess windows, with flaggers at every crossing.
- 02
A three-week look-ahead with the principal
Noisy work and testing weeks were coordinated every Monday, so exams never shared a morning with a pile driver.
- 03
Flexible rooms, fixed infrastructure
Floor boxes, ceiling power and data were laid out on a grid so movable walls and furniture can reconfigure rooms for years.
- 04
Move-in planned like a phase
Furniture, technology and robotics kits were staged room by room, and teachers had keys a full week before students.
The outcome.
“The school schedule was our first schedule. Our own activities were built to fit around it, not the other way around.”
Superintendent, GilbertLanham
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