School Construction
CA High School STEM Building Topped Off
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/09/21
A California
district has "topped off" its new multi-story, $67 million,
83,000-square-foot STEM school. The Los
Alamitos Unified School District has laid the last
piece of structural framing at the highest point of the building. The
steel beam that was placed included handwritten messages, an American
flag and an evergreen tree.
The STEM building
will be part of Los
Alamitos High School. Besides 14 science classrooms
and 13 general education classrooms, the facility will feature a
robotics lab with maker gear and a computer lab that will accommodate
40 workstations.
Westgroup Designs was selected in 2019 to design the facility. Erickson-Hall Construction Co. was selected in 2019 as the lease-leaseback contractor.
Construction was
expected to be substantially completed by May 2022, with occupancy
planned for July 2022.
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @schaffhauser.