Site Challenges Create Design Puzzles at CHS

The district is working closely with Bassetti Architects, Cornerstone Construction, and numerous other consultants to solve complex problems posed by the Curtis High School site.  Most school replacement projects allow districts to build on flat land on an empty campus or next door to an occupied school.  These approaches are fairly straightforward.  Curtis High School is not this way.  The CHS project requires solutions that link together multiple buildings at sharply different elevations on an occupied campus.  Construction on a site like this requires phasing where new structures are built, students move from old classrooms to new ones, and older structures are demolished and replaced with more classrooms, parking lots or other features.  Depending on the project, multiple phases might be needed.  Projects with multiple phases take longer and cost more to build.  All of these factors combine to form some very unique challenges for design and construction. Our large, multidisciplinary design team is working hard to overcome these challenges and design a safer, more modern and functional high school for UP students.