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Construction News – February 22, 2001
Every day brings new developments in the construction
of the Community Resource Center – the 30,000 square-foot two-story
building evolving at the west end of the playground.
With the weather beginning to moderate the pace has
picked up considerably. The metal – stud wall on the first
floor is basically complete. The space that is left will be filled
with glass. The window openings are in the walls but haven't been
cut out yet. In the next few weeks the sheet-metal fabricators will
be here to install ductwork. The concrete subcontractor is installing
the reinforcing mesh for the floors. Plumbers are finishing the
rough-in for the connector building and the carpenters are roughing-in
the framing for the roof curbs, the integral gutters, the parapet
walls, and enclosing the first floor with plastic to hold the heat
in.
With the increase in traffic it is important to be
alert when entering and exiting the school.
The Vision to Reality Project
The Community Resource Center (CRC) will
house a new K-12 library, Kiva gathering and performance space,
storytelling area, project rooms and quiet study, and an administrative
center. It will also contain state-of-the-art computer laboratories
for lower, middle, and upper schools and will have a video broadcast
and editing center as well. Mme Suskin is thrilled to have a foreign
language center with five language classrooms, again with the latest
technology. Needless to say, the faculty and students are enormously
excited at the prospect of this wonderful new space!
Phase II, the
extensive renovations scheduled for lower, middle and upper schools,
will begin June 1st, with preliminary prep work scheduled during
spring break. The faculty has begun packing their materials as they
complete units from their syllabi – all furnishings, books
and supplies from both buildings will need to be stored for the
summer. If you have moved at all recently, you will sympathize with
the enormity of the task of packing up a school!
Your Gifts to
the Vision to Reality campaign are at work behind the scenes of
this wonderful step in Lake Ridge’s history. All funds are
invested in endowments and the income is used to support the bond.
Your gifts will continue to benefit many generations of Lake Ridge
students. We are enormously grateful to you.
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