District Starts $86 Million Construction Plan

CARLSBAD, Calif. — The Carlsbad Unified School District started construction of 11 new educational buildings at Carlsbad High School, part of an $86 million building plan.

 

With an office in nearby San Diego, McCarthy Building Co. is the contractor on the CHS renovation project, which will add 99,000 square feet of space for classrooms, a vocational education lab, food services, and a performing arts area to the school. Perkins+Will of San Diego is the project’s design architect. The project is scheduled for completion in October 2011.

 

CHS is among eight schools within the CUSD being constructed or modernized with funding from Proposition P, a $198 million bond measure passed by voters in 2006.

Educational structures are being built on the site of the high school’s former parking lot. The buildings will have curtain walls on one side, with metal light screens on the opposite sides to help reduce energy use. Once complete, McCarthy will demolish many of the existing classroom buildings and convert their footprints into a new, larger parking lot.

 

Other CUSD facilities undergoing development include the new Carlsbad High School at College and Cannon, a second high school campus, currently in the early stages of development. According to the CUSD, construction ofn the 1,500-student school is slated to begin this fall with an estimated completion date of fall 2013.

 

Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects of San Diego designed the school, which has projected costs of $76 million. San Diego-based Barnhart Balfour Beatty will manage construction.