 My name is Jeff Thielman, and I'm the member of the Arlington School Committee my wife and I have three kids in the Arlington Public Schools and I'm the chairperson of the High School Building Committee. I'd like to start the High School Building Committee has been working on this project since 2000 and sort of the end of 2016 so we're coming up on three years of working together and I think this is really a labor of love for all of us around the committee Maybe all the members of the committee could stand up and just be recognized real fast just say hello So this is the these are some of the members of the 18 person building committee and we thank them for all of their time on our behalf Ted Paluso member of town meeting pointed out to me there was a recent survey done by Doesn't come in up now But by a group called wallet hub that ranked Arlington's educational system among small cities and towns in America Smaller cities, I guess right a sixth in the nation So we have a good school district a well-run school district and a lot to be proud of and I think that was reflected in the vote that took place in June the 13,000 people participated in the election on the high school building project about 10,000 voted affirmatively about 3,000 voted negatively, but they did participate and so about 77% of those who participated supported the project and I can tell you that that that level of support from the community was gratifying to all those who have worked on the project and Very gratifying to teachers and staff inside the building and certainly the parents who worked hard on that campaign So to all of you who supported the campaign or didn't support the campaign but participated in one way or the other We thank you for your support If you look at the agenda We're going to give you an overview tonight of where we are in this process Talk a little bit about the design progress since June. I'll be calling up HMFH is Lori Coles to talk about that part of the project We're going to talk about value engineering. So the process we go through to value engineer And that means kind of stay within the budget I'll explain that in a minute or explain that a little bit later on We're going to talk about impact on students and student life in the school talk about construction Timeline and phasing and then we'll take questions. So I just want to kind of recap a little bit about Why we're building a new high school? That's the next slide. So Why we're building a new high school? So just as a reminder. Oh, I hit the thing. Oh No, I'm the guy. Oh, okay. I can't even figure that out. Oh, thank you Great okay, so Just to kind of remind everyone of why we're building a new high school. So As everyone knows in 23rd, I think everyone knows who has followed this discussion in 2013 the the new England Association of Schools and Colleges known as Niasque came for a visit and did a site visit and in annual 10 year or every 10 year accreditation visit and in the course of that visit they determined that our facilities were not Adequate for a high school in the 21st century and so they put the high school on warning status We kind of knew that was coming. No one who was involved in the accreditation process I think inside the high school certainly the superintendent. No one was surprised about that given the state of the high school It's an old facility It's first first was built in 1914 the first building was built in 1914 in addition in 1938 and then more construction in 1980 so between 1914 and 1918 there was a lot of construction that created a very confusing layout and By the time you get to 2013 It's time to build a brand-new high school in addition We Are we are facing in the town of Arlington growing enrollment When I joined the school committee, which was a while back We had 4,300 students in the Arlington public schools and today we have more than 6,000 students in the Arlington public schools the The high school enrollment currently is 1400 we're designing a building for 1,755 students and by the time we open and are you know fully open We're going to be pretty close to that design enrollment number the building has flexibility to allow for more students But our enrollment is growing the building is deteriorating deteriorating the accreditation Was pretty clear on what we needed to do and the taxpayer is happily responded to that reality by funding a new high school It's it's important to give a little context to what Arlington high school is all about It is it is more than a high school for those of you who have lived in town for a while or children in the schools You know That the the high school building houses the monotony preschool Which is a preschool for about a hundred and fifty kids were required the town is required by state law to provide special education services to children beginning at age three and that prompts the need for a preschool The lab collaborative which is a collaborative of towns that provide special education services together has Classrooms and offices there the adult continuing education a program of the Arlington community Community education program the Arlington community education program is housed in the high school and There are hundreds of people in that building nearly every night of the week for one continuing ed program or another The district offices are in inside the high school and town offices the Comptroller the IT and the facilities department are currently in the high school So they're going to move out in the new phase of the project. So all of that made for a Rather Complicated site. It's a it's a compact site. There's 22 acres upon which we can build a high school and provide Athletic facilities and fields the state standard is 25 acres It's also a site that has contamination and there's also a brook running underneath it So it's a complex site that we had a wrestle with for quite some time to get it right Let me talk a little bit about the phases of this project So after the New England Association in schools and colleges Paid their visit gave their report. We submitted a statement of interest to the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which is a quasi public entity that is Designed to partner with cities and towns to provide expertise for building projects high school building and school building projects and to provide Funding the first submission wasn't accepted the second submission in 2015 was and in 2016 we received news that that's that the town had been accepted Into a feasibility study process between 2017 and 2018 the high school building committee. You met some of the members oversaw the the process of studying different options for the new high school and after a lengthy process process Eight public forums lots of outreach lots of listening We decided that the best thing for the town of Arlington the best thing financially the best thing in terms of Sustainability the best thing for our students the best thing educationally was to build build a brand new high school between 2018 and 2019 right before the vote leading up to the June 2019 vote we were in the schematic design phase. That's when the design became more refined. We got a better sense of cost estimates and Excuse me We were able to create a building that This will pass That's going to cost two hundred ninety point eight million dollars That's why I haven't choking Chum change so When that when that when the project was approved by the voters better now We entered a new phase of construction new phase of the process called detailed design or DD in the trade In the detailed design phase We are getting a we are refining the project. We are Getting more specific more detailed cost estimates because we have more information and Then between 2020 and 2024 will begin construction of the new high school. God bless you. Thank you Yeah Thank you so The construction of the project is scheduled to begin in the spring we're going to start you'll there'll be excavation happening in the spring and Our team has a mitigation expert who will be Mitigation is the right title for her. Yeah mitigation expert who will be Interfacing between the school leadership between dr. Janger and his staff and dr. Bodie and the construction team so that we Do things safely and we have minimal interruption to teaching and learning inside the high school So In the detailed design phase Process we hired consigli construction. We hired consigli construction. You're going to meet the team today Todd McCabe and John Lamar from the team are going to speak to you in a few minutes We hired a consigli construction Because of pricing we also hire a consigli construction because they have a lot of experience dealing with rather complex high school building projects across the state and in working with Cities and towns like us and with the Massachusetts school building authority We are in the process of design development as we as we speak We are putting things out to bid and we are starting to get we will get soon We'll get estimates back from the people that we're putting bids out to and we're going to get a more specific and a more Detailed understanding of the specific costs of the project and I'll talk about costs in a few minutes, but now I want to call up I Want to call Lori Coles our architect from HMFH who's going to talk to you about the design of the project And then talk a little bit about the progress we made in design over the course of the summer Good evening everyone. Thanks for joining us tonight I'm going to start a little high level But just to give a picture of where we got to in a few brief slides and then show you the really pretty pictures Which is the fun part really show you how the design is shaping up and how the spaces will feel on the inside So this diagram is called a party I know it's a little bit of architect speak But a party is it just the very simple core of how is this building going to be put together And so the idea behind it is that we have a central spine and we have four Wings off of it The first wing here is called steam which is science technology engineering art in math classrooms Then there's the humanities ring wing which covers all the other classrooms We have performing arts, which is your auditorium and drama and music and band classrooms And then the athletics wing which is your gymnasium locker rooms and so on so We took a long time to come across this diagram and really realize with the educators that this is what works And it is just a diagram, but you will see in the coming images that It's it's been flushed out in the flushed out in the project Really is coming together make sure I can and so This is a look at it just zoomed up from the sky looking down on it. This is Mass Ave And you can see the four wings what else is being shown on here just for reference for everybody is this dashed outline Which is your existing school building so again just to give you a feel for where it is on the site But it's showing one of the main things that we worked hard on was instead of putting You know a school unto itself. This is a school within the green So we've been very fortunate to have the beautiful front green and to Going to be very highly programmed and used courtyard spaces and then all of the fields and Then and the rest of the site so that's really the idea of this building is that it's really Embracing all the open space around it and really there's very few rooms that you're not getting natural light in the school building Oops keep it in the wrong side So this is the overall site plan and hopefully you all will be able to stick around we have two Models of two different scales of the overall site in the back of the back of the room here today and In here again We have Mass Ave along the edge and the text here if you can't read it I'll go over it is really hitting the highlight of where things are on the site So again the school building the front green. This is Shuler court Shuler court will connect With a two-way drive over to Milbrook into mill street We have the outdoor courtyard here, which is called an amphitheater a second courtyard here Which is really we're calling the the learning courtyard or classroom courtyard and We have parking that happens both to the west and to the east along the drives We also have parking. We'll have slightly more parking on site than what we have now and we have Existing stadium will stay in place. We are reconfiguring the current sports fields To the west will be a new softball field with an overlay of a football field and To the west will be a new baseball field with an overlay of a soccer field and So we will be Strengthening that party through the site So what this means is you know There's an there's a real connection through the building from Mass Ave all the way to the sports fields And that connection is really providing Two main entrances for the school building You'll see this in some of the diagrams coming forward And it really shows up very well in the large model that's in the back of the building which is of This center spine and how it connects through the site This is a close-up Of the front green and what we're really trying to highlight here. It's something we talked a lot about in the spring and last winter Was the importance of the existing front green and the existing trees along the front green So the ones that are circled here are in fact existing trees that will remain You're seeing an entry Plaza right off of Mass Ave, and we are showing Sort of sidewalk and walkways that will bring the students and visitors into the site from either, you know the MBTA drop-off over here or over here Flowing through the site and it does give it a little more close-up view of the outdoor amphitheater Which will be used very heavily by the drama program the music program they could have movie night there and so on and then the Outdoor courtyard space here, which is connected to from the classroom wings and from the central spine The great thing about both these spaces in terms of during the school day is that they will have fences and gates So they'll be secure for the school use Therefore the educators can feel comfortable about letting the kids out there And they're not going to disappear and wander off to Dunkin Donuts or something So that is the overall plan close-up And so we have There's two images this one's here in the second one these are called axons axonometrics And it's trying to give a little more three dimensionality to the building for folks to see and this one in this case This is the Mass Ave view here and what you're seeing is the steam wing The performing arts wing the central spine the humanities wing the athletics wing and Then adjacent to the humanities the humanities wing and connected on two levels are the preschool program the district preschool and district offices and You know this is showing a number of things for folks I mean we are going to be heavily using skylights to daylight spaces like the gymnasium's so that again during the school day They don't have to flip on the electric lights. They can take advantage of the natural light That will happen and one thing that's not being shown on this We will be basically covering the roof roof with photovoltaics So we just didn't get into the detail of showing every single one But there'll be a lot of what they call pvs photovoltaics on the roof not unlike the existing school that also has them and This next view here is sort of taken from the other side in the other corner So this would be the field side the drop-off and entry. This is the humanities wing The district preschool on the first two floors and the district offices and then the gymnasium's here And so it's just giving you an overall feel of the mass of the building. It is a very big building square footage wise It's quite similar to the school that you have now except for the difference is the school now has a lot of floors in space kind of Hunkered underground without any natural light. And so we're trying to avoid that and we do have to Step down because the site does do that But we're doing it in a way that we're getting as much natural light as possible into all of those spaces This is a rendering view of Mass Ave of the school from Mass Ave So that the center entry point here the performing arts wing which includes the auditorium and Other music spaces the four-story classroom wing which will include again the sciences the arts and the math classrooms One thing to point out if you all recall we are designing a 900 seat auditorium again same number of seats that you have now in the school auditorium, but it will be a larger more aptly sized space in terms of meeting code requirements and accessible seats and all the things that we need This is a close-up of the main entry showing the colonnade Covered entryway into the school. We're also looking at Site benches and other ways to sort of let people wait for their pickup and things like that This is a view of the field entry We're all trying to break the habit of referring to this as the back of the building and it's hard for everybody But in truth when all is hadn't done this entry will be used as much as the other entry for ease of drop-off Access to the fields where the parking is and you will see in the diagram that will show how much it really Connects right into the center of the building. So it's not like a back door at all and so the entry here is showing the Five-story wing of the humanities and then the lower It's two floors for the athletics building. Of course the gymnasiums are large So it looks more like three floors and then the center point here where entry for entry and then this is just a little snippet of showing the more scaled-down entry for the preschool and So we're looking at sort of a theme of bringing nature in and trees and greenery and things like that To sort of engage the the younger population there And what you're seeing here is a lot of different graphic techniques and ways of doing things some things are hand-drawn They're different computer techniques again people respond to things differently So it's just a different way of showing it, but this is a view of the whoops of the courtyard for the amphitheater and So it's three-sided This will actually help with acoustics and create the space Our theater consultant is in the room if you have any really specific questions but as an outdoor space it will be really lovely for people to Use the school has lots of ideas of how they're going to use this space in terms of jazz night and Movie night and so on so we are creating a stage or a plinth and it's a very shallow slope It's not going to be steep like you would see inside the building. It's just more shallow shallow, but it'll give the opportunity for You could have tables and chairs out here I mean we've had lots of ideas about how fun it will be to program this space in the future and This one is the other courtyard, which is again more of the learning courtyard the classroom space You're sort of seeing the three sides of it So again, it is protected and enclosed in that way it has doors and connections directly to the spine and What we're doing here, which is a little different than the majority of the building will be a brick building a brick school house But at this point here, this is a this is a going to be a heavily traveled Circulation between the spines and so the ability that throughout the school day they can be connecting to outdoors It's not just sort of a corridor with you know, no sense of where you are What's happening with the weather and it's like that instead it will have a lot of great connection to the outdoor space to the Courtyard space So this is this big section, which if you were here last fall Excuse me last fall and last winter we had a version of this and this is the same same but just evolving as time has gone On so what happens here is this is the mass av entry. This is the field side entry and this is all one contiguous space So when I walk in here, I'm going to be able to see out to the fields and when I walk in here I'm going to be able to look up and see towards the mass av entry and so the real idea of this is Orientation you if as a visitor you come into the building you always know where you are you'll be able to spot Where's the auditorium? Where's the main gymnasium and the spaces you might need to get to? Again, hopefully you'll have a chance to look at the model, which is at the back of the room Which is of this space and you'll be able to go at eye level and look right into the space here And so one of the one of the more Connective aspects of this is what we're calling a forum stare or forum seating And there's some views of that and coming later, but the idea that it's not just a flight of stairs It actually is seat stairs as well. So so kids can sit there. They can have their lunch. They can small groups can meet We're also planning on having A screen hanging off of this so again, they could watch movies or if there's too many people In the performance and you want to telecast it you can watch it over there So it really brings all of the the big shared spaces together in this space here so we have some Interior views interior perspectives that have been rendered Just to give a sense of the scale the feel of the space some materiality Nothing's in stone yet. We're still working through with the building committee on all of these things We have as Jeff said we've got a number of months to go We won't be finished until September 1 with the drawing documents I don't want to tease anyone not really finished a lot of years of construction, but just for the drawings So this would be the entry side from Mass Ave So if you come into Mass Ave, you will be in that central spine You will see the auditorium. You can look up and see where the library learning commons is and again, it's just a very welcoming open Daylit space and this is one of the two views we have of the auditorium So unlike your current auditorium, which as I said, it is the same number of seats We are actually going to have a balcony So the lower level which you'll see in a moment is essentially all accessible It's a very low slope and then we're able to have a balcony that will wrap on three sides sort of like arms Which is going to provide a lot of flexibility for what they can do there They could have you know, somebody playing certain instruments up in those spaces It just gives a lot of flexibility to the educators for how they want to use the space And the second view here is coming from that main level So this would be as if you just walked in off the lobby that we just showed you and came into the space And and entered from behind here And I think you can get a sense of sort of how gradual the slope is before you would get to the stage So back out to the main lobby when you're here You've just sort of passed the auditorium and you're looking out there would be straight to the fields And we have a couple things I want to point out here one on the left hand side We are repurposing and reusing the stone pieces at the front of Fusco And if you don't know what Fusco is Fusco is the building on the left if you're on Mass Ave looking at at the school And so the stone entryway and the pilasters that are there We have sort of sized this wall to be able to accommodate that And then on the right side here is a life skills cafe It'll be used by the school For programming and then the great thing about it is it can be a spill out during the day in terms of lunch Maybe the lunch offerings would happen there and also for intermission or You know between sports or or theater events and things like that The school is you know again brainstorming all the great things that they can do with this space So now we've reached sort of the The spot where you can look down and you can see this is one view of the forums forum seating So there's there's stairs and then there's seating and so the seating is seat height It's maybe three steps worth on each one of these But there's railings on either side and this is a regular stair But then it's just expanded to have seating opportunity gathering opportunity And then it spills out to the cafeteria below And then this is a second view of that this would be looking back at it from the field side Up there is the lobby and mass av and the life skills cafe You also can see from this view is this is the glass wall that would connect you to that courtyard Oops, I keep it in the wrong button Okay, and then another point out here is you're seeing light here in that classroom courtyard We actually have a lower courtyard that spills out from the cafeteria And it's very going to be very similar to the space that you have now at the high school and that connection So a nice weather kids can be outside eating lunch and Just two more three more this is an example of one of the gathering spaces in the academic wings and so Um nowadays instead of just having a long narrow corridor with doors off it and and no windows to see what's going on And no sense of what's at the end of the corridor We really don't design schools like that instead We treat the corridor as an opportunity to gather and to use that space and have it be more welcoming and not feel Like an endless circulation as it is our our corridors are not particularly long But even still on all of them we have what we've referred to as a breakout space Or in this case we're calling it the commons And in that what you're seeing here is A very large light well And so what it's doing is it's bringing natural light from the roof to all of those floors So all four floors will have natural light in the center of the building And then we're taking it a step further and providing Just a low sort of counter height Um Seating again, so I'm a kid. I've got a backpack. I put it down for a minute. I talk with my friend It's just another way of using the space But what happens is all of the classrooms on either side of it have have windows into the space So a teacher can send four kids out there to work on a project And and they can be feeling very autonomous and grown up But yet there's a lot of adult eyes on them to see what's going on So it's just a way to give different spaces for kids to learn and to work together This probably needs no introduction. This is a gymnasium This essentially is the larger of the gymnasium spaces It will replace what's currently called the red gym. It is larger than the current red gym in total. This is 16,000 square feet And we have Bleacher seating on both sides. This one's pulled out in the image This one's not for a total of about 2,000 seats and And I think I mentioned earlier. We will have Skylights along here So there will be a lot of natural light in the space But we know not to make natural light that blinds the basketball player or anything But it's just a more diffuse light in the room And then this is the last image of the library learning commons, which is again very central. It's right in The central spine. It's above that main lobby space when you come in So that makes it central both in plan and in elevation to be connected to from all of the Floors of the classrooms wings and bring it bring everyone right to the heart of the school You know it is a sort of two-story volume space And this is allowing us to get a lot of natural light into the room because even though it's centrally located It will have a lot of natural light And I think I'm going to finish there Thank you Yeah, so I think we're going to stop here and actually Laura. I think you have to stand up here. Sorry So I'm we're going to take about 10 minutes to just ask question stop here and take questions about the design While we're on this topic while it's fresh in people's mind Sorry about that Yeah, they're out there. Yeah, so there's some microphones if anyone has any questions One of my questions was is there any plan for An indoor track or a track around a space where students can run Oh wait sitting down. Sorry. I just always I it's hard to answer a question, but I can't see the face. I'm answering it too Um, so the so yes, so as long as we're defining it very clearly So the gymnasium is sized that there are going to be walking lines all around the gymnasium So the bleachers need to be closed, you know not pulled open and it's a walking track It's not a running track running track requires, you know, it being banked And a certain size and all of that but we do have multiple lanes that can be walking lanes around So I'll ask this question because I know lots of people are interested I know that there's going to be about 100 bike racks And I was just wondering how many clusters of bike racks to serve. I know they'll be in the back and the front I mean Are they all one place or they sort of spread out Spread out Okay, they're not. Yeah, there's not we're not in stone, but we will have Bike racks at the mass outside at the field side in both directions. Yeah Is uh town meeting member john lended precinct 17 Uh As long as we're talking about design of the inside of the structure I placed some pictures on the wall over here of the present Exterior the back of the school That exists right now I took the liberty of having a mason contract to come down and Ask his opinion on how this particular part of the school deteriorated Now Most of these pictures appear are basically like Three of the walls facing the football field the baseball field, etc I noticed in the design of the school the new school There's going to be at least 12 brick walls of any manner shape or form Some of these conditions over here. I'll gladly inform anybody who wants to know But they go anywhere from poor Stone washing of graffiti off the wall to bad drainage To snow being piled up against the walls, etc, etc and left there My question is going to be By looking at these pictures and looking at the existing walls right now How are you going to stop? things like snow being piled up against new brick walls What are not draining out by because the weep holes at the base of the walls are plugged up with snow Graffiti that you hire somebody to stone wash the graffiti off of and they do a lousy job Are we going to be looking at a school later on down the road? That is brand new but after the course of a year with all these problems that I presented up here Looks like the school has been around for since the turn of the century What can you tell us of how that school is going to be maintained? Okay, so a lot of different topics So in terms of the masonry wall itself It will be very well designed. It will weep as it's supposed to and all You know, we we know how to design brick walls. My firm's been doing it for 50 years So I'm not at all concerned about that in terms of graffiti, which is a really good question And we had the same conversations when we designed tomsen for you all And the decision was made that the first floor where a kid with a spray can could get to will be treated So that it's easy to wash off. So that's a process that we would put On the masonry to to be able to be easily washed off washed off But I will add to that Again, as I mentioned before it won't be a back of the school Because there'll be a lot of circulation and people there in terms of it's not going to be a free for all But on top of that we are designing a security system And cameras that will in fact show Every nook and cranny of the building on the outside and the fields in the site And so as the principal and assistant principal sort of say they might do it once But they won't do it a second time because they'll get caught What was the other one did I miss one snow The quick question that I had was is snow Caused damage over here. Yeah by being let In other words, we can't expect the plows to go right up against the building You're gonna have 12 walls at the new high school So I I gather you're not going to have people going into every single nook and cranny of these 12 walls And taking snow away from the wall So that the weep holes will be able to let the water drain out of it Yeah, so at the back of the site now, there's some areas that are very tight In terms of circulation and everything so I I can't speak to what they do now or how they do that But I can imagine it's probably hard to get the snow away Um So in terms of the design of the building, there's a lot of there's going to be a lot of pedestrian sidewalks near the building And so they will have to keep them clear for the pedestrians so The facilities guys are already Delving into the length and asking us exactly how many linear feet of sidewalk they're going to have to clear So a lot of that is what will be Along the perimeter of the building so they'll have to keep them clear Drainages Well, I think the drainage part is he's referring to on the actual facade of the building And how it's designed and that the water is not coming out and it's deteriorating That's that's the drainage But then he's referring to that if you do I mean it's like anything, right? So you all you all know the story at home make sure you're not Building up snow where there's an exhaust vent. I mean, it's the same idea as that You shouldn't let it pile up and stay there. So um You may So it's hard to make the current architect talk about how badly designed the current building is Because she hasn't looked at that But the current building that back of the building is significantly under engineered and under constructed It floods back there on a regular basis because of drainage issues The wall comes straight down to the road. So when you're talking about snow plows, there is no place to push that snow off And so none of those design issues are likely to be issues in the new building because they're dealing with all of those issues I could go on for hours about how badly constructed the current building is Hello, um, my Okay, great. My apologies if i'm asking a question that's been retread a few times over Clearly the safety of the students is the number one priority and the staff is the number one priority And and the number two close behind it is a great educational environment There are a lot of people in the town who have a lot of affinity for the columns that appear Currently in the front of the building It seems to me that that's an architectural detail that Could almost be added to any building if it's done in a tasteful way I guess my question is since so many people in the town really love those columns Is is there a plan to save the columns and to utilize them in the new building? Well, you're right in that it was discussed a lot It was a very big topic throughout all of our design phase. I'm sorry. I didn't want to start coughing so I have something in my mouth and So the final outcome of that when we when we finished up the last phase Was that we are going to save one maybe two and place them someplace We have not finalized with the with the client with the building committee where they will go There's a there's a significant cost To these columns and we're not really confident that they're going to hold up So the building committee had made a decision that we're not wholesale Keeping all of them and doing anything with them But the idea that if we find an amenable space Whether it's inside or in the courtyards or things like that To repurpose a couple of them that that's being worked on Adam's reminding me so another aspect that we've thought a lot about is On the view that I was showing of the courtyard that has the glass the interior courtyard, but it has that wall of glass We're also looking at It's called a frit when you actually put a pattern on the glass of an image It can be anything it could be just a graphic or whatever, but it could be an image and so we're looking at doing sort of a drawing Of the columns on that glass wall So that's another aspect of just again the memory there of for past generations um, I wondered in the In the amphitheater courtyard Where you have the stage area Have had there been thought or discussion about having some kind of a Canopy or the potential for a canopy over that area so that You would you would be able to have more use of that in inclement weather, etc Um, it may have been mentioned, but it hasn't been a cost-effective thing. That's part of the project I mean, it certainly wouldn't stop like for a particular event to do a tent Like a tent structure like you would outside and things like that would be possible But it's nothing that we're programming into the the current budget Hi, I'm wondering if there are any areas. It's a very big building And I'm wondering if there are any areas that the design team is particularly excited about or that are unique to this high school Oh god, where to begin in the state Um, I mean there's a lot of things we're very excited about Just the whole central spine and the circulation taking this 22 acre site and really making it all Usable and welcoming from all directions Bringing it into that central spine again if you get a chance to look at the model You'll see how excited we are about it And really one of the goals that We worked hard on from the very beginning Is to cannot Ever let happen what happens in the school building right now Which is that it's such a circuitous lengths of corridors that they can lose track of kids, right? I mean it's just such a big building with lots of stairwells a lot of unsupervised spaces It's a lot of effort for the school to supervise the building just because of the layout of the building And what this central spine is going to allow the school to do is Everyone's everyone's going to want to go through there. It's going to be the cool space, right? No matter what floor you're on they're going to want to be there and therefore everyone's going to see each other So I mean the the the the corridors that come off of it are not very long They're all programmed. They all have you know eyes on them and spaces that are connected and natural light and so I just think that the whole Diagram that we developed with the building committee and the administrators Is really going to make a very connective school that you're always going to know where you are I think the other the other hand of this we've spent a lot of time with jennifer from the Community Ed program and you know the current building's got a lot of spaces She can't use some of them because she can't get people to them because they're going to get lost And now she'll be able to say oh see up there Just take the stairs and it's right there. You know that kind of thing. I think it's going to make a big impact And there's a lot of exciting other program spaces so I could go on for a while, but Yeah, great Was there another there's another question here go ahead Thank you. Um, I have a question about capacity So I understand that the school is going to be built for 1755 students Um, just given the way the numbers are growing in town and you know, I come from thompson where in six years We went through two constructions So I'm wondering what is the what is the capacity for growth because this is going to take five years to grow By then will we have reached? That number Yeah Yes, the the the school department is very cognizant of that I think as you know, um, if you're are familiar with thompson It is a negotiation with the state funding agency to what that number capacity is But in truth They calculate based on 23 students per classroom. So there's a lot of leeway there that you could be 24 25, you know the the number per classroom Inherently will allow for growth. That's not like formulated in the way msba. Excuse me the state funding agency mass school building authority fund Calculates it because I think for that reason there's a lot of movement Um We also inherently have a lot of flexible classroom spaces that can be used for a lot of different things a number of computer Um classrooms a number of spaces that will allow for differentiated Learning and teaching we have I mean talking about one of the interesting spaces. We have the what's In short called the d lab, which is the debate and discourse lab And that's going to allow, you know three classrooms worth of kids could be in there I mean, there's a lot of different spaces that they can do different things. So Um, you know, I think the athletic spaces we have we have more than right sized Performing arts are more than right sized um The cafeteria the interesting thing about the cafeteria Because there's so many spaces that the kids could be in They don't have to just be in the cafeteria space. They can spill outside They can spill up a floor. They can be on those forum stairs. They could be out in the courtyard I think again the administration sees that there's a lot of elbow room Even for that, you know, lunchtime period, which usually is a crunch when you grow the room can't grow for lunch You're in trouble, but now there's all these other spaces that they can choose to they could say, okay seniors You can have lunch here. You know, you can start doing that. So It's tough because you can't overbuild you can't build for Some crazy number that may or may not happen in this town because again, we are very familiar with adding on to thompson But that's our plan Okay I said one thing to that if we uh back to that So if you're looking at the building, I guess on this side, right? So if Do I have it right? Yeah Yeah, so if if we had to um If we got to a point like we did with the thompson and the hearty First of all to do in addition would require a vote of the town There would be a school enrollment task force that would meet and talk about this And it would be a very public process with lots of dialogue And it would take place several years from now five six seven eight years from now But uh, there is space on the right side in front of the preschool Um, so if you look at the right side, we could put in Additional classrooms three per floor or how many yeah, so we we could put in 15 classrooms if we had to Yeah, all right there. Yeah At the end of the steam wing so not unlike what we planned for in thompson Just never expected to have to do in three years But it is planned forward to have an expansion there And the plus of expanding at this wing is you could be getting sciences and general ed classrooms So that it gives you both spaces and it's all sort of contiguous with with other spaces We're very hopeful that will be the problem of another generation of town leaders Okay, so Okay, so I want to talk a little bit. It's it's up to me. I guess to talk a little bit about value engineering. So We're engaging right now In a process that we meaning the only the high school building committee is engaging in a process to prepare for value engineering and basically value engineering Is is the process of ensuring that our project And our budget align the voters have given us about five hundred and seventy five dollars per square foot A two hundred ninety point eight million dollar building And with about thirty million dollars of contingencies in that budget about 12 and the building committee's responsibility is to make sure that the project cost And the project itself align We can't go above that amount to get ready for our first value engineering discussion Which is going to take place in two over two meetings We hope we can get it done in two meetings Which is november 18th and 19th monday the 18th and tuesday the 19th the public is welcome to come We have a number of subcommittees a sustainability subcommittee an exterior subcommittee an interior subcommittee a field subcommittee a memorial subcommittee And there's i'm probably missing some but those subcommittees are meeting now And they're going through an exercise of ranking Different reductions that we could make In the in the project in order to be aligned with the cost of the project So we're engaged in that process You're going to you'll probably start to hear about it once we get a number of cost estimate back Which will happen in a few weeks Our subcommittees are preparing for that discussion and on the 18th and the 19th before we submit the A plan to the state We will go through a process of value engineering We are required by the contract that we signed by the contract that the town manager and the superintendent signed With the message of school building authority to do value engineering or cost analysis On a regular basis all the way up until the end of the project 2024 So it's it's something you're going to hear about there'll be discussions that'll take place And we want to make sure that you're aware of that Um So consigli i'm going to introduce the team from consigli john McCabe and john i mean todd mccabe and john lamar if i get that right But um They uh, you know the reason as i said earlier in the discussion We went through a process an open bidding process in which A many many uh, or several not many but several of the large Well-known construction firms in the commonwealth of massachusetts bid on this project And then we had a subcommittee a selection subcommittee that included members of the building committee members of the of the town With the experience in this sort of thing reviewing The presentations listening to the presentations and then that subcommittee selected consigli And we we selected consigli Because they have a lot of expertise in k through 12 educational projects They've worked on a lot of complex project on on compact sites like we have in arlington They've been doing this for a long time Um, and they have experience in innovative phasing approach meaning Experience in designing or or implementing a project like ours In phases while students are in the building and that was uh extremely important to us I'm going to call these gentlemen up to talk a little bit about the work they're going to do Um You press this to go down that goes down. All right. Good evening everybody As jeff said, my name is todd mccabe. I'm a project executive with consigli construction John the mar behind me is our senior project manager who is going to be Really in charge of the day today once we move into construction And is working with me right now in the pre-construction phase really the planning phase as jeff has described the design development Into early enabling and pre-construction We're the rookies on the team. We joined the team about three months ago And uh when been working with uh with the architect hmfh with skanska the opm in the town Getting up to speed really learning learning what they've been working on for the past year or so And and and now we are in this dd estimate phase right now Which is really putting numbers to the designs that you've seen up on the screen here So hopefully we'll have some some good information In the next in the next month here several weeks I did want to just give a quick Description of who we are jeff talked a little bit about it as to why uh why the town of arlington chose consigli We are the second largest cm in massachusetts construction manager That is and we do a significant amount of k through 12 construction, whether it's renovations New construction or a combination of both which which this really ends up being We we a couple that I would like to highlight It's just down the road here at the winchester high school that john was our senior project manager on Working with with skanska as the opm And then john also worked on the city of mithun occupied renovation At their high school as well, and then we have we're just completing the town of stoten stoten high school Currently and all all very successful projects ones that we think Lend well to the challenges That we that we see and that we'll encounter and that we'll plan for here in arlington Someone mentioned safety And of our students and our staff and and townspeople is being the most important and I agree So how do we build this wonderful building this wonderful new building in in three or four different phases? Around not only the occupied school, but the occupied tight Project site, although it's it's it's a large Landmass you'll see we'll get into the logistics planning of it all in a few moments here With some some level of detail as it's early in our process, but we're starting to plan that out And you'll you'll see where we are During construction relative to the buildings that you're that you're in your students are in your children are in And on the ball fields around us as well. So it is it is a very Sophisticated sequencing project that we're we're working on plans to to create. I'm sorry creating plans now to implement In really a few short months here But when we talk about safety and we talk about mitigating impact to the students We really throw it into into three buckets. It's a separation of our construction activities It's the construction worker management the the personnel on site How do we how do we manage that because on a job this big? There will be a a number of people workers on the site during the day and then the which on any project Extremely important is the communication not only outwards from from the construction management to to the town and to the school But really from the school to us Understanding what the daily life is of a student what when tests are when MCAS when when those different Important activities are happening so we can plan those into into our process as well So the first here is the separation of construction activities Very simple. It's it's creating barriers between Our construction zone and the academic student and athletic student zones Okay, how we do that is we establish a perimeter around our project site You'll see fencing miles and miles of fencing going around this site temporary construction fencing to create that separation We'll build barriers and acoustical barriers More in phase two and three when we actually start to be working adjacent to active student areas but what we do is we just build a Called a demising wall or a barrier wall that that allows Data daily academic activities to happen on this side and for us to be building on this side And in some cases when we do have the real estate We like to create a buffer zone Which might be a five to ten foot area on the opposite side of an active construction wall And we'll get into that phasing As we move in a little bit deeper into the project When we do build walls and we are working adjacent to student and staff areas We're always testing air the quality of the air We're doing noise tests daily to understand what the construction activities sound like on the other side of the wall We know what we know what they are over here What do they sound like in the student and staff areas and making sure that we're that we're working within the the criteria that are established And if we're not Then we shut down and we have to figure out how to perform that work You know in those acceptable levels Signage is going to be key There's going to be a lot going on and people are going to be curious as to what's going on so Part of the separation is making sure that the students and staff know where to be and where not to be And signage is a big part of that and we'll work with the school to find the those locations the optimal locations To communicate that and to really to create wayfinding for For for people around the school And then this last piece is strategically performing off hours work. We can't do everything off hours But there are elements of the work that we may want to because it's too disruptive for For the students during the academic day and we'll work With with the school to figure out when the best time Is to do that when the best when I say time periods during the construction schedule to perform strategic off hours work Our second bucket here is the construction worker management. This is how we manage our personnel on site We talk about a zero tolerance policy no no intermingling between students staff And our construction workers unless it's desired from the standpoint of There's an amazing learning opportunity Happening outside the school with this construction project We do like to integrate ourselves with the approval of the school into the students learning daily learning And several projects we've established actually a construction curriculum Where we bring professionals from my team into the school and teach about BIM building information modeling teach about surveying teach about different aspects of the construction That's happening right outside their window For the for some for the four years they're here. So it's a real great opportunity that we will look to maximize Obviously we perform background checks on all the personnel on that are working on site And we'll work with the school to establish a criteria of of who can be on site and who cannot And then finally for for our staff and for the the staff in the school is identification badging Understanding who is is who and if they're approved to be on the construction site Again, we we work within our confined zones, but parking and there there will be at times People coming to and from the construction site that we just need to make sure are properly identified nowhere to be And know the rules of of working on on on the job site And then finally I mentioned communication You know, we're gonna be we're gonna be neighbors We're gonna be part of your school for the next several years So us participating in in daily activities and daily drills school safety drills This will become part of our operation as it is yours We'll be creating monthly updates to make sure that everyone on the team understands Where things are from a budget from schedule. What are hot issues? Where are roadblocks? Where do we need help with answers so we can keep the project moving forward? Um, we did mention earlier that we've created a mitigation manager position because It's this is such an active construction site. We need one person that can communicate outwards to the school Uh, meeting with the principals meeting with this with this the staff And sometimes meeting with select students That is with the one voice of consignor that will come out that information come back and it helps us to control The messages that are on and off coming on and off the the construction site And we'll work closely with obviously, uh, the Scansker our opm with that position And then the last piece is you'll start to see when we throw the logistics plans up here Is construction activities the deliveries that are going to happen on a daily basis major deliveries such as structural steel and concrete to box trucks with duct work and You know simple construction Material that'll be happening on a daily basis. We're going to manage that we're going to control that Limited to times during the day where traffic on site Student traffic on site isn't high So we can you know just again create that barrier between our construction zone and the students and staff on site So the final piece that I have And then we're going to get into the logistics plans. It's just a very high level look at what the next several years look like For staff and students and for you all living in the town We are talking about starting this construction project in Late winter early spring february. We're identifying of 2020 which we're calling phase one or the enabling phase John's going to get into the details, but as you can see here and I think that's on a handout in the back of the room Our enabling phase is geothermal wells and it's relocating existing utilities out in that front grass area Adjacent to mass av where phase one of the new building is going to be built After we relocate those utilities, okay, so between the existing school and mass av that grass area there That period is about six or seven months And we'll get into the details a little bit in phase one when we start building what they're calling that building out front the performing arts and steam wings The students will remain in the existing Building structure school structure. We're not impacting anything on the the existing structure in phase one Phase two as I mentioned a little bit earlier is when we start to get a little bit closer to the students and staff our phase one building will be built the brand new steam and and Performing arts wing will be built And and we'll move into demolishing One half of the building and then building the new spine lobby cafeteria media center Humanities wing preschool and the district administration's offices. This is probably the most complex portion of the project Due to the significant drop in site from the front to the back due to the connectivity of Of the new building the to the to the existing structure And it's the most intense from a construction duration standpoint It's our longest 18 about about a year and a half to to demolish and build so very aggressive schedule That will be done about august of 2023 Phase three will begin that's the gymnasium wing at this point The students will be able to move about the pretty much the entire new school with the exception of the new gym because we're building it Okay, and that's about a 12. I'm sorry about a 12 month project building the new gymnasium and Being complete with the project the new structure By july of 2024 so by the end of that middle of that summer of 2024 is when the new building will be built Phase four focuses on taking down the existing Gymnasium and doing kind of site work out in the back the the fields on either side of the existing football field will be constructed at that point So then very high level we just ran through the next five years of construction in six minutes. I wish it was that easy But we are going to talk a little bit to give you just a little bit more flavor and detail John's going to come up and just walk you through some of the major components of the next several phases good evening so I'm sure you're all familiar with the school, but at this point we're just using a google earth Images to map out what we've got here Five years of planning a lot of planning is going to go into this. So you're going to see as my presentation here the first Pre-phase first phase and second phase. We've got a lot of detail right now Third and fourth phase will get there. That doesn't mean we're not there yet. We're not thinking about it, but we are But these these are developing they're evolving I did hear laury say something earlier our slides on as pretty as laury's She's got the nice renderings. We just got google earth so So just to give everybody an overview obviously the mass av we get the button here Mass av entrance. I'm not going to repeat everything laury went through earlier, but that's still the main entrance You get the pierce practice field baseball softball in the stadium field Why I bring that up is because the next slide Is we're going to take the fields offline We're going to take the pierce practice field baseball softball field in order to do start the pre-work In february march april may right up until that summer The reason for that is is Todd touched touched on is that there's a large underground Existing storm line that runs through here that we've got to bring down here skirt past that area that we talked about for the future Um Edition and get that to where the drop-off is down until they were there So I tend to get into a lot of detail So i'm going to try to pull myself back here right now and just stay on a higher level But tell you why we need to get this work started because that's a lot of work And for us to be able to start the construction honor about July That has to be moved all these utilities have to be moved So february vacation honor about then we're going to take that basketball field uh court right I'll speed up The basketball court's going to come offline and we're going to make that into parking Right there So we're going to make that into parking to some islands in that area that we're going to fill in And some we mentioned earlier and it might have been and you've taught but or parking We have made sure that the existing parking count that's currently there for staff Is still going to be present throughout the life of the project. We're not adding anymore. We're not taking anymore We've got it down to every stall where they are where they were and how they're going to be again. I'm getting to a lot of detail but That's our phase one zone there And then right there the pierce field the pierce field practice field, excuse me is what we have geothermal wells The geothermal wells are what the project is going to be using for heating the hvc system and there's a field a geothermal field well there There and possibly running across the front right here. We're still working through that right now But those go 500 feet deep in the ground. There's quite a few of them there We have to start that work in march The purpose of that you're going to see as I move along here. So we can get that field put in place and get parking lot established there So I mentioned the geothermal field for phase two, but we're going to start it in phase one. So when they Sorry about that when they go from there, they're going to go over there And then we're going to start constructing a parking lot right here We also have utilities in those Areas that I just on the left side and the right side that we talked about earlier that also have to be brought online And reworked because when we phase two comes online, we start demo in phase two The gas and the water lines have to be relocated again too much detail. Let me keep going here so if you look at the top On september 1st when students come back staff comes back That parking lot right there is going to be established that parking lot stays for the life of the project It's going to be the binder course and that's we're going to put staff right there We've already got this right here, but you also notice we have temporary entrance So there'll be an alternate entrance. I don't know if that's what we're calling it bill and matt But an alternate entrance to students can still come down milbrook circle back here get in there Students can still come here and I'm going to talk to you in a second about how they're going to get into the main entrance there So this is phase one starts It's already started But students are back at school and it goes until a better explanation January 1st of 2021 I already talked about everything, isn't it? Okay, so here's here's just a zoomed in image so everybody get a better look at how How it's working here This is a drop-off And this is how staff and students will be getting around so totted touched about that earlier That's what we'll have temporary fencing if need be light lit walkways to make sure it's not a dark spot So students can get back and forth as well as parents and staff so phase two It's it's not common, but it's not uncommon. We've got this project starting. I'm assuming completing phase one at Christmas time new years typically there's summer So when they end summer we're bringing the furniture in moving getting that building all ready to go for when September Labor Day starts So a little unique situation here. So that's going to be all hands on deck For us helping and working with the school to get into that phase one with all the new furnishings and all that material when they come back on July excuse me January 1st we start We start the phase two demo I just highlighted right there as well. We also have additional parking there again I touched on the parking that we're constantly making sure we get the parking count. We're constantly adding more parking So now we've secured the site We start the demolition and then Todd had mentioned earlier that this is the first time we are right up against the occupied school tearing down the existing school and we're literally right Existing existing new new and we're right in the middle there So that's where all of that items that Todd had talked about the the temporary walls the noise control sound control dust control All of that is being implemented pretty much at this point right here Can you still get the temporary entrance? I am going to stop for one second before I leave this slide because at January No, I apologize. I missed the pommeter um the swing space for the pommeter school Um the kindergarten. I apologize the kindergarten downstairs That is going to be fitted out from January of 2020 to august of 2020 So when the those students come back, they will now not be coming back to the school They will be going to the pommeter the reason why i'm not sure Why that was thought through but I know what I selfishly It's this area right in here. There's a lot going on I apologize. I gotta go back a slide right there See right there That large line that I mentioned that storm line and we're trying to get away from the um The addition there's a lot of work going on right there and not having those students there is is obviously a good thing so Phase two I get there I'm going the wrong way. Thanks for telling me I'm trying to speed up here Okay, so we talked about phase two Todd talked about the duration It's going to be a turnover in the summertime. So again We we mentioned that's a good thing How we turn that back over there's your temporary entrance still that's maintained through the project You got your parking lot over at the pierce field But we're also going to be establishing the millbrook parking lot at that in that phase So towards the end of that summer June july august will be creating the the mill millwork Millbrook drive parking This is just a zoomed in blow-up So the unique thing here now is again you get the temporary entrance in the back You can still come through from the back And you can come in the main entrance for the phase one But right there that I just highlighted We've going to make a connector To be able to go from a temporary connection from phase one to the existing building Now i'm going to speed up because now we're getting three years later here And we got a long way to go still so phase three as Todd mentioned Phase one and two are complete We still got the space back here And we're in between again on the opposite side so still brought up against the building There's a new parking lot that's established and it'll be there for when school starts There's our construction zone Again I want to highlight this just because we didn't want to gloss over it that a lot of them Staging in the construction trailers are going to be in that Geothermal well field that's highlighted up on the right hand side throughout the life of the project from phase two and three on We got the blow-up again Still you come into the main entrance off a mass app. You still get the alternate entrance in the back We still have to work through some logistics about we get construction equipment coming in out of schuler But we've got staff parked here and how we how we work that through So again down the road still working through that plan right now oops There's also another Connection right here to be able to have the students and staff be able to connect from the existing building the gym into the phase two Phase four the last phase Everybody is in the new building Everything is working. We're tearing down the building and creating the athletic fields So that's where we're all set there Anybody have any questions on that or It's like to Talked about a mitigation program for the students How about for the neighbors like when carney built the building by schuler and mass app We got inundated with rats Or do you have any rat mitigation program? and secondly How about noise mitigation for the neighbors across the street and around in our neighborhood? On the other side of mass app Both daytime and at night when you're bringing in stuff for staging And third is how about parking because right now When between the students the leader bank and the other businesses in our area There's no parking virtually in the neighborhood areas during the day And it's difficult for some of us to get in and out of our driveways as it is So the first thing is on the the we'll call it rodents The rodent control we have a program that we hire a third party to come in Set traps around the project site on the project site as well as in the neighborhood and those are Checked if need be weekly and initially And then as the job progresses monthly and as a report of what they find And if they find some more at a certain bait station, they will increase that to try to Regulate that from happening. Sometimes it's works both ways though Sometimes the rodents come from outside into the project and sometimes just the project noise and rumblings send them that way I think your other question was the The noise typically Like any town we have ordinances that we're only alerting a lot of certain decibels Of noise that can be created. So what we'll do before we start construction We'll do a baseline seismic and a noise out on mass f We have found a lot of times that the public bus the mbta buses actually create more noise and or In some cases vibration than the construction equipment But so we'll establish a baseline and then what we do is we have protocol and procedure the one that mitigation manager We mentioned earlier one of that responsibilities is to check these Readings to make sure that we're not spiking and if we are spiking how do we address it? What was it or is it an isolated situation? And if it's an isolated situation, we then get creative there is going to be pile driving There is going to be pile driving So there are some noisy and vibrating type activities that are going to be occurring here Not not going to mince any words with that that We've got to address that but we we think we do it up front Establish a baseline There's also we've worked with skanska and other projects the perimeter Houses and businesses Can have a survey done With a third party of the existing structure to see how it would shape it's in document it So then if something does happen or should happen, it's all there for everybody's protection And what was the third one? So parking is right up there for construction workers are right right there That's what we'll end up putting them and again We thought I brought it up three or four times because we're trying very hard to make sure that the Current parking spaces that are on site Are being maintained and not lost so exactly what you just said doesn't happen enforce people out into the community into the neighborhood Um two two short things one is to follow up on the rat issue I'm hoping there won't be poison used We've had issues with We have a lot of red-tailed hawks other animals Had a poisoned rat on my street this week that a hawk almost got my neighbor luckily got it away from the hawk before The hawk got poisoned too, but um, so i'm i'm sure there are guidelines about that We'll be working with that third part Okay, the other question I had is about the impact on athletics and I don't know if that's something that you can speak to but What are the plans for? What how the athletics that normally take place on those fields will be Handled and i'm thinking particularly of track and field Which actually uses The baseball field for events that cannot be done anywhere else on the site. Yeah, well, dr. Janger take I mean, so the honest answer is it's going to be a disruption um We were surprised actually when we found that we were actually moving earlier on the spring But we've already reached out to the parks and recs committee and the scheduling in terms of youth athletics looking at other fields that we can bring online for softball because right now for us We don't use our baseball field for our varsity athletics. We use that for jv Um, so they can use other fields on on site, but our varsity softball field is here So we're already working on a couple of sites where we would do varsity softball Um for for uh track and field We're going to have to move people to various different sites And move more of our activities onto the pierce practice field And so our athletic director is working through that We've had multiple meetings with that and it's gonna push and put more pressure out onto other fields in town Um, yeah Correct Right I mean, you're the honest truth is you're right and we're making plans to deal with that Not all of them have been worked through but it's absolutely gonna have an impact I had two questions. The first is about hazmat How much asbestos and lead paint are you expecting? And how anything in particular you're planning to do to mitigate it and abate it the second question is Is the heating system going to be a hybrid gas and geothermal or just Geothermal and any other Details you have about the mechanical systems Sure, so the hazmat That as I think jeff's daughter was we know this site has a lot of Contaminants on it So do we've got x-tera, which is in the dirt and how we handle and mitigate that And as well as inside the building you mentioned lead and asbestos most likely So when we phase two I was a good example The first two months we're not you're not going to see a lot of demolition You're not going to see a lot physically happening because we're going to be in the space Under containment removing all of those materials and it's strictly very strictly regulated for osher For worker protection and that same worker protection obviously goes to the public So, uh, it's highly regulated how we manage that Air changes and nothing gets out of that space and then how it's trucked away and how it's shipped away That's for both the dirt as well as inside the building So so we're learning more about the extent of all of that now in the dd phase And that information will make its way into the bidding documents Obviously, there'll be industrial hygienists involved in that and oversight And and then from that information we'll put those plans together as to how we Uh, mitigate and abate those those contaminants for those sizes material And I think you had a question on the geothermal or the mechanical so I'm going to do my best lorry. It's uh, it's all geothermal wells There is no you mentioned gas the the only gas that we're going to have is that For phase two that we got to temporarily relocate while we're keeping see me phase one to phase two Well, we're keeping that building up occupied Um I'm not sure that answers your question I'm not far enough into it yet Chill beam chill beam systems Again, this is the desires to be net zero at the end of the day and that zero energy building Which means more electric solar panels No use of carbon fuel gas The as john said the only reason where We have gas in the project is to keep phase two And we're when we're demolishing and starting building phase two is to keep phase three the existing equipment up and running and then once that goes Here's two quick questions. If I could please you've already pointed out the construction Vehicles are going to be in the softball field over there on the right-hand side Where are the workers individual vehicles going to be? and second of all we've had We've always heard about many projects being done through the state And things end up missing like copper and stuff like that there. We'll be providing security for five years on the job site or is that taken care of by something else So I can answer both quickly the parking for all construction related vehicles including Um Workers vehicles will be in this in this area here up on up on the top right and uh regarding security site security right now We don't have that as part of under our purview 24 seven for the next five years So we we we have our construction fence. We have our site security that we will perform during the day or during any Active times when we are on site We will um illuminate the areas When we're not here, but we do not have a full service around the clock security details If need be we can work with the town on on what that requirement might be and how we could how we could fulfill it During phase two entry uh during the demount Demolition are you aware of any contaminants like ambassadors? Do we have a test report? We currently have preliminary test reports. We touched on that earlier that we know that this Has this materials within the piping insulation, etc in the mastics So once we understand that better, that's how we determine the duration to remove that Generally how successful are projects of this size in keeping on it on the time scale that you've laid out Knowing that you don't have a crystal ball It's it's an aggressive schedule The more we can find out Regarding the unknowns The unforseen those are the issues that really gum up a schedule I'm doing a kitchen project at my house right now And I didn't know about a lot of the existing electrical behind the wall that has now caused me to reroute a lot of that work I didn't do a good job on my own pre-construction at my own house. But that is really the the uh the Who's my opium exactly? I'm not going to say my um but Consigli has a very good track record of staying on schedule There are They don't have a crystal ball. I can't tell you that. Yes, it's going to it's going to be there But we understand the requirements and the commitments that the town has And we need to work Constantly we we're we're updating schedules once a week during during the duration of all the phases of the work Obviously we rely heavily on a large subcontractor workforce to make sure that they're providing the right number of people and the right material So we're policing that on a daily and weekly basis updating that several times a month And then communicating that out to the to the our design and town partners. So We'll be watching it constantly Our objective is to obviously meet those those uh those milestones We have interim milestones along the way that we use as kind of Markers to make sure that we're we are on track and if not then we're talking about recovery schedules and and start to get strategic on maybe working overtime maybe working Saturdays and trying to solve those problems our uh turf and lights still in the project budget for the athletic fields Please say yes. So right now. So right now. Uh, yes, they're in the design development package that we're that we're pricing I was just wondering if there'd be a point of contact for either the community or parents Who have questions concerns things that come up Is there going to be a single sort of person that they can talk to or a single email address or Or some sort of point of contact? So typically the way It's set up is that the owner's project manager, uh, skanska jim borrows here Would be that person And the dialogue would go through jim and then come to us if there are Questions regarding construction related issues So I would imagine we would have that same structure here. Yes, the project email building committee Um, so there's the two routes and they would come through us and they'd filter to the project We'd like to stay away from putting, um, my superintendent's cell phone number on the side of a building because They get many calls Um Yes, so just to reiterate that there's a on the website and go to what is the ahs The ahsbuilding.org but the web but there's an email address and you just send your email It goes to skanska the project management team. Uh, they try to answer it right away If it requires more Thought conversation among members of the committee or the superintendent of the town manager, uh, then that happens and They try to get back fairly quickly and we get a report every Few weeks on all the correspondence that comes in So oh so I want to and um There's a chart. Is that chart in the back this it is so there's a chart in the back pick it up Um, you can take a look at it, but you kind of read across Uh, and it talks about what um, your child's going to experience Inside the high school or grandchild is going to experience inside the high school Over the course of the project if you have a child in third grade or younger or grandchild in third grade or younger He or she uh, we'll see a brand new school with everything done We hope by the time that uh, that child walks into school And then you can kind of take a look at what your child's going to experience. So We encourage you to stay in touch with us come do our meetings. Um, anytime you hear about anything Here we go again Shoot us an email. Give us a call semi-alazza And uh, we'll answer your questions. Thank you very much