WCPSS Projects Winning Design and Construction Awards

The Raleigh City Council will award Broughton High School's addition and renovation project a Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Community Appearance at 6:30 p.m. today at the McKimmon Center.

The award recognizes an institutional project that exhibits a new standard for excellence and an example of the future, an awareness of the importance of good community appearance and stewardship of the land, and improvements upon an existing site or structure and preservation of important historic and cultural features.

Broughton underwent a complete renovation of all the older parts of the campus - more than 150,000 square feet total. Renovation of the original 1929 building required special care to repair the exterior walls without sacrificing the historic features of the building. The job proceeded in several phases, with students being moved into temporary classrooms on the site.

The project team included: WCPSS Facility Planner Larry Sherrill, WCPSS Construction Supervisor William Hartley, Principal Roy Teel, architect Cherry Huffman, and general contractor J.M. Thompson.

William Henley Dietrick, a well-known N.C. architect from the 1920s to the 1960s, designed the original building. He won the right to design the school in a design competition.

Another school project recently received an award as well. The new Holly Springs High School was awarded the EDGE award for Best Project in Suburban/Rural Environment by the Triangle Business Journal, Oct. 11. DeVere Construction Company won the honor in the general contracting category.

TBJ developed the EDGE Awards program in 2004 to recognize excellence in engineering, architectural design, general contracting and landscape contracting industries. Nominations were required to detail how projects enhanced its surroundings, minimized potential negative effects on the environment, used innovative project management tools and generated positive return on investment for owner.

The new three-story high school was built for 1,663 students and is a partnership between the school system, the Town of Holly Springs and Wake County. Holly Springs High is built from a re-used (prototype) design, also seen at Green Hope, Wakefield and Middle Creek high schools.

The project team included: WCPSS Project Manager Norm Kligerman, WCPSS Facility Planner Harold Hinson, Principal Luther Johnson, Jr., architect Cherry Huffman, general contractor DeVere Construction.

Posted by Kristin Flenniken at 09:36 AM on October 26, 2006 | Leave Feedback

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